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How Drunk Do You Have to Be to Watch Pretty Woman?

Our buddy John over at The Droid You Are Looking For brings the science on this one, with a series of infographics showing how his level of inebriation affects his willingness to watch different kinds of films.  The results are funny and very insightful. 

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A Great Whiskey for Beer Geeks: Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey

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 […]

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Ho Ho Ho: Whatcha Having this Holiday?

For many of us, today is the last day of work before the holiday, which means today is kind of like a Friday (just a really cool one).  With so much revelry ahead, we want to know how you’ll be celebrating and (of course) what you’ll be drinking. I’ll be enjoying be Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey, […]

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Whacha Drinking this Weekend: Last Minute Holiday Shopping Edition

It is that time of year, and if you haven’t finished (or started) your holiday shopping it is time to get crackin’!  I had an incredible stroke of luck yesterday.  I had everyone bought for except my wife.  See she is a bit of a tough one this time of year because she also has […]

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Last Minute Gift Ideas for the Whiskey Lover in Your Life.

It is once again time for my annual “run around like a chicken with my head cut off and buy gifts for my spouse” day.  Irony of ironies, I am a planner by profession, but do you think that would translate into my personal life?  No way!  So I will spend the next several lunch […]

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Check Out Our Holiday Podcast

Well, the holidays are upon us and Don and I took to our microphones to create a special holiday edition of the Beer and Whiskey Brothers podcast. Listen in as we review a few seasonal beers (and I bitch about them), Don reviews one of his favorite holiday whiskeys, and we talk about the stuff […]

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Old Whiskey River: Willie Nelson’s Whiskey.

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 […]

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My Weekend SUCKS: What Are You Drinking?

Some of you may have noticed that I have been a little scarce on the blog over the last month or so.  That is because I had a convergence of a most unfortunate type at work.  Five projects that were all going along on their own just fine, decided to all have deadlines within one […]

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Please Share: You Favorite Beer and Whiskey Food Pairings

We’re excited to be Foodista.com’s “Featured Drink Blog of the Day.” We’re also a little bit intimidated.  What are we going to do with all the foodies who click the link and show up here?  Actually, they’re probably here right now, reading this! Okay, let’s not panic.  To start, we should show them that beer […]

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Chanukah, the Festival of Lights: What Will You Celebrate With?

No better way to bring in the Festival of Lights than this classic from Adam Sandler!  For our Jewish readers, what will you be drinking as you light the Menorah?   Let us know in the comments, and enjoy this emerging classic from Mr. Sandler…Yes a Jew! . . UPDATE: Jim thinks Hanukkah Harry might be […]

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Podcast: How We Almost Had a TV Show

In honor of the premiere of Brew Masters on Discovery last night, Don and I dusted off the microphones and recounted our “near miss” with TV this past summer.  It should be a fun listen.  We also review a couple of nice beers and a whiskey named after a bearded musician who has a channel […]

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Whatcha Drinking this Weekend?: Chillin’ Out Edition

I’m excited that the weekend is upon us, as it’s been a long week.  Last weekend was fun, but very busy, and next weekend is full of holiday stuff, followed by my son’s birthday weekend, the getting ready for Christmas weekend, etc. etc.  This is the last weekend for a while that we’ll have to […]

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Never Mix Work, Play, and Booze…

We had our semi-periodic “Guys Weekend this weekend, and it was less than stellar, is a matter of fact it was downright crappy.  See we needed to complete a project.  Two of us were working for the other at the time so we thought, what a great excuse to head up to my buddy’s Sun […]

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Guys Weekend: Houston, We Have a Problem!

This weekend I am going on my Annual…scratch that, 18 month….scratch that, every once in a while…Nah, Once in a blue moon guys weekend with my two best friends Mike and Lance.  The last time we did this I made a big mistake.  I bought Wild Turkey Bourbon, which is a solid choice, but Mike […]

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Whatcha Drinkin’ This Weekend?: Roll ‘Em Back Edition

As a public service, we’re here to remind you that Daylight Savings Time ends this Sunday at 2 a.m.  Be sure to roll your clocks back one hour. We’re not offering this public service to make sure you don’t arrive at church an hour early on Sunday – we’re here to remind you that you […]

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