I posted yesterday about how excited I was to get BOO-zed this Halloween. It was an awesome surprise and one I want to share with as many folks as possible. With that in mind, I’ve put together this guide on how to “BOO-ze” your friends, complete with links to the “BOO-zed poem” which explains the […]

It was late last night and I was contemplating going to bed.  It was 11pm and I was getting a little bleary after watching my current televised guilty pleasure; the “Next Iron Chef America.”  Right after the “Next Iron Chef” airs they try to hook you into watching Iron Chef America.  Good thinking on the […]

I thought about this on my way in today.  I saw that someone found our site by googling the question “Is drinking on the weekend bad for you?”  It got me thinking that there are a lot of questions that I sometimes wonder about, and moreover wonder about how you all feel about certain things, […]

It has come to my attention that a lot of the beer drinkers on this blog do not enjoy whiskey like they do beer.  I think this is a shame, as many of the barrel flavors that many beers now have come from using whiskey barrels and integrating the flavors of the barrel and the […]

NOW WITH POLL GOODNESS: We talk a lot about beer and whiskey on this site, and we extol the virtues of each one.  The virtues are many, and every once in a while I get a clunker that is used to clean the drain in the sink, but mostly these two beverages are sweet and […]

So far this season we have reviewed a host of fall seasonal beers.  We have pitted them against one another like the review Jim did of Southern Tier’s Pumking vs Avery’s Kaiser, as well as the more traditional reviews I did of Sam Adams Octoberfest, and Shipyard’s Pumpkinhead.  Plus I know there are plenty of […]

Will work for Booze is the mantra on the Stranahan’s bottling line in their micro distillery in Denver, Co.  Stranahans is a relatively recent comer in the world of small batch whiskey and an example of how a micro distillery can make it in today’s economic climate. They began to bottle their whiskey about a […]

OK, so enough GABF already.  This isn’t going to be another post where I go on and on about how great GABF was.  What I do want to emphasize here is how it has messed me up for this entire week.  Jim and I joked while we were in Denver that the GABF killed our blog, […]

Well it’s Friday, which means the weekend is fast upon us.  Last weekend Don and I were in Denver for the GABF, so I doubt either one of us will match our beer totals from a week ago, but I’m happy to say that my “Craft Beer Overload” has subsided and I’m eager to drink […]

Don and I “get our bitch on” in our latest podcast, where we sample three bitchin’ beers: Dogfish Head’s Bitches Brew, Flying Dog Raging Bitch and Bitch Creek’s ESB. We also talk about the things that bug us about the world of craft beer and small batch whiskey.  Some of our blog readers get into […]

Don and I decided to do a podcast at the GABF to document our thoughts about the event before the brain cells carrying them succumbed to alcohol poisoning.  It was a close call! Check out our iTunes page or PodcastDirectory.com to get our thoughts on the beers we enjoyed (and didn’t enjoy), the folks we […]

Jim and I just got back from GABF on Sunday.  My liver was pickled and I had no cravings for booze of any kind Sunday afternoon or evening.  Then Monday morning I started to get a craving that I really couldn’t put my finger on.  I thought about it, and I ran throught all the […]

There is a growing trend that is receiving a lot of press right now in the Whiskey world.  That is the trend towards micro distilleries.  There are currently 186 private micro distilleries across the country and there seem to be more popping up every day.  The trend is turning into a movement that echoes the […]

Don and I love craft beer and whiskey, enough to prattle on about it here every day.  But there are some things that get our respective goats when it comes to being beer and whiskey enthusiasts. For instance, it makes me crazy to go to the beer store only to hear about the awesome limited […]

Brown-Foreman (Parent company of Jack Daniels) commissioned seven artists to do art on used whiskey barrels that will be auctioned off for charity with all proceeds going to “Hand in Hand for Haiti” funding earthquake relief and school development.  A noble cause to be sure.  My question is why only 7 barrels?  I’m actually hoping […]