What a difference 6 years makes!  Last week I reviewed Jura 16, the 16 year old Single Malt whisky from the isle of Jura.  That was a very viscous fruity smelling, caramel and vanilla delight.  Jura 10 is a different character entirely.  Don’t let the bottle fool you, this whisky is a total departure from […]

People tend to do stupid stuff when they’re drunk.  They drive Porsche’s into the woods of Pennsylvania at 140 miles per hour, they get bad tattoos, and, at least in New York City’s West Village, they try to buy puppies.  

It is the 5th of July, that dreaded day when everyone must go back to work with hangovers and too little sleep.  Hopefully you got a chance to have a barbecue or see a rousing 4th of July fireworks display.  Where I live, the city puts on their display on the 3rd and then on […]

Every once in a while you see something that makes you take pause and go “wow – this is something new.”  That’s what I did when I saw these uncanny animated gif loops. They feature craft beer folk hero Sam Calagione brewing up a batch of a new strawberry beer which Dogfish Head is prototyping […]

Can’t say we didn’t see this coming.  Rhonda Kallman, former Sam Adams executive and brewer of Moonshot 69, the gimmicky caffeinated beer featured in Beer Wars, is officially calling it quits.  She will be shutting down her “brewery” (her beers were contract brewed) this month, and will no longer be heaving her cleavage at bartenders […]

Last year, a 170 year old shipwreck was found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, and among the various baubles recovered were a handful of intact bottles of beer.  Finnish researchers recently cracked one open, only to find the bottle had been infiltrated by sea water.  When analyzing the brew, they found malt sugars, […]

I’m all for industrious folks making a buck, but sometimes you have to ask – do we really need this new doohicky?  In this case, it’s the $0.99 Beermometer app, a new way to keep track of the beers you are chilling. 

Finally a Pilsner I can get behind!  Avery Joe’s Pilsner was Avery Brewings first foray into canning beer.  It was their first release in cans about a year ago.  I talked about it here.  Well it finally made its way to Idaho (only took a year)!  As soon as I saw it I picked a […]

There’s nothing more wholesomely all-American than milk.  You put it on your cereal, you put it in your coffee, you even cook with it.  According to data from the Beverage Marketing Corporation, the average American consumed a whopping 20.4 gallons of cow juice last year.  That’s more than distilled spirits, wine, energy drinks, tea and […]

Yesterday was a hectic day.  It began well enough, sleeping in until about 9 am (a real luxury in my house), with morning coffee and the paper, and some good conversation with my wife.  That afternoon however was where it all began to fall apart.  See lately my wife has been into the whole coupon […]

As you can see, we’ve just overhauled the look and some of the functionality of the site.  Some of you may recall that we’ve been looking for a way to make the site content more “scannable” than our old layout allowed, but we were having trouble finding the right WordPress theme.  Well thanks to a […]

I’ll admit, I’m probably the easiest person to assassinate in America.  Why?  Because I’m a creature of habit. Want to shoot me as I drive by?  Be at the bottom of Skyline Drive at 8:37 on any weekday morning.  Want to poison me?  Inject the tubs of Original flavor Tribe Hummus with Strychnine at the […]

It’s good to know your limits, even if you occasionally exceed them.  In the case of James Taylor (not the Sweet Baby variety), that limit seems to be 38 beers.  I won’t lie – that’s pretty impressive. Unfortunately for Taylor and the family who had to see his exposed genitals on a Hudson, Florida beach, […]

I’m out of pocket today, in San Francisco for work. My boss and I flew in last night, and I had the pleasure of flying first class (I highly recommend doing this, especially when work pays!). Last time I flew, it was business class on Lufthansa to Germany. I think I was spoiled by the […]