When we started this blog, I knew nothing about whiskey besides the fact that it all tasted like paint thinner, just different brands. But as Don kept posting whiskey reviews (remember when he used to do that? 🙂 ) I started to get curious. I tried Knob Creek and liked it, and I bought some […]

Back again!  Instead of doing a traditional Christmas day countdown like in the songs, I thought I would just describe my day and let you put things where you think they belong.  First this is the view off the balcony to my room.  I know it is a parking lot, but they gussied it up […]

I have a confession to make.  I’ve never had a beer from the Brooklyn Brewery that made me go “wow.”  Actually, the other night at my company holiday party I had a Brooklyn Pilsner and a Brooklyn IPA, and both made me go “meh.”  I respect the heck out of Brooklyn brew master Garret Oliver […]

Remember Butch from the Little Rascals? He was the roughneck that always picked on Alfalfa and the rest of the “Our Gang” clan.  He was bigger, rougher, and much more bitter than the rest of them.  He was, in old timey language, a ruffian.  The kind of kid that used his size and attitude to […]

The Victory Brewing Company most people know from the shelves of their local beer store offers a solid line up of big character beers.  They don’t do many limited-release highly hyped beers, but the variety and the quality of their everyday beers are as good or better than just about any brewery out there.  Solid, […]

When I was a kid, I hated Willie Nelson, and all of the country singers of the day.  I was too caught up in the excitement of the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd to really care about other great performers.  So if they weren’t what I liked , they sucked.  I think that […]

Well, it is that time of year when the clock tolls holidays, time slows down, you see your aunt with the blue hair, and the winter seasonals hit the shelves!  Well, I have been a busy little elf this year and had a whole bunch of the various seasonal brews, and thought I would share […]

Voodoo Brewery, owners of the worst website in all craft beerdom, must be working their black magic on me, because I keep buying and enjoying their beers. First it was their Big Black Voodoo Daddy, a powerful and well-crafted  imperial stout that managed to be huge on flavor but still very drinkable.  It let me […]

We all have that crazy friend, the one that talks too loud at the bar and swears too much in front of our mom.  Well, this blog has such a friend, and his name is Daniel.  To quote “A Christmas Story,” Daniel works in profanity the way other artists work in oil or clay. And […]

Yesterday I posted about the evolution of the beer geek.  At the top of the evolutionary chain sits Geeko Sapien, the experienced and open minded craft beer drinker who doesn’t take him/herself too seriously. I like to think I’m a Geeko Sapien, but just because I might be at the top of the evolutionary ladder […]

One of the coolest things about living in Alaska was all the daylight in the summer…until it wasn’t.  See when you first get there and it is bright light out at 2:00 am in the morning it energizes you.  Its a rush like you might get from an energy drink.  I think it must be […]

Hello Foodista.com readers!  We’ve put together a special post just for you, but unfortunately this isn’t it.  So read up on how awesome Avery Brewing is if you’d like to, and then click here to pop over to our food pairing post. Cheers! – Don and Jim   Usually, a brewery makes one or two […]

You have to love the idea behind a traditional Irish Wake.  It is a time to tie one on in remembrance and celebration of the poor sap in the box!  I always wanted to go to an Irish Wake, but I don’t want to have one…I want to be at the party, alive and fully […]

Well, has he let himself go?…or not?  It is kind of hard to tell in some cases, like that of Carrot Top.  He has made a career out of being “off”.  Just slightly out of sync with the rest of society.  But let’s face it he is good at it.  Carrot Top is perhaps one […]

It’s not easy being the worst at something. Spectacular failure doesn’t just happen –  it requires profoundly “not getting it” but still putting in a full effort. It takes an unflinching lack of talent and deeply misguided motives. Being the best at being bad means creating something so uniquely unpleasant that people take notice.  The […]