When I was about 12 years old, I lived in a small town in Iowa where there wasn’t a lot to do. My friends and I would head “up town” to kill some time wandering through the shops that dotted the town square (this was before Wal*Mart sucked the life blood out these small businesses […]

I don’t follow hockey, but I know that when you score three times in a game it’s called a hat trick, and that’s exactly what I did over the holiday at a little hole in the wall beer store I stumbled into.  It was one of those magical beer (and in this case, whiskey) moments […]

There’s a place in Rockland County,  New York called Cable Beverages that I’ve been meaning to check out for a little while now.  I really hadn’t heard much more about the place than they have a great selection of beers and it’s a must-visit spot for beer nerds in the region.  Well, I happened to […]