I am enlightened.  I know this because I have found Nirvana, or maybe that should be Beervana at the Cascade Barrel House in Portland, Oregon.  As some of you know I’ve been unemployed for several months now, and looking for work in a bunch of different places.  A friend of mine and I went to […]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you’ll have one less hour to enjoy delicious craft beers and artisinal spirits this weekend.  That’s right – it’s time to “spring ahead” and change your clocks from 2am to 3am in the wee hours of Sunday morning. I usually don’t mind this, as I’d […]

If you will recall waaayyy back in the early days of the blog I said I wanted to find the worlds best oatmeal stout.  Said that here.  All the way back in December of 2009.  Well my search is over.  I’ve had some awesome oatmeal stouts in the mean time, with the best being (until […]

Well, truth is “most” of you can’t get this delightful nutty sweetish brown ale from Bitterroot Brewing in Hamilton, Montana.  So why bother doing a review?  Well first of all it is a fine example of what a Nut Brown Ale should be, and secondly, like the old russian saying goes “men (or women) are […]

This weekend was a pretty good one where beer was concerned, but when you drink as many new beers as I do, you learn to enjoy the really good beers, and let the bad beers just kind of roll off you.  Chalk it up to part of the craft beer lifestyle, you have to “kiss […]

More and more, folks are getting into pairing beer with food, and why not? The right marriage of beverage and bite can take your enjoyment of both to levels unreachable when tasted separately.  I’m just getting into food pairings and can’t wait to taste all the possibilities. One thing I’ve been into for awhile is […]

HAHA Jim, looks like this is here to stay!  Here is a link to the very brief write up by our buddy Adam over at Beernews.org. http://beernews.org/2012/02/pong-beer-planning-to-expand-distribution-across-20-states/

So this is what I feel like after the first round of the Great Whiskey Challenge of 2012.  See I got almost everything wrong based upon price, but based on flavor I still contend I’m spot on.  Here is how it broke down. Remember I said: All in all for those that are keeping score […]

This challenge was given to me from our friends up at Selkirk Abbey, the new all Belgian brewery in Post Falls, Idaho.  Remember Ron Wallace and Jeff Whitman sent this box along with a challenge for me.  Four whiskeys, 1 top Shelf, 2 mid shelf, and 1 decidedly pedestrian whiskey from the nether reaches of […]

Buckbean Brewing will be closing its doors forever at the end of this month.  February 29 will be the end of this brewery.  This was reported by Adam over at Beernews.org.  You can see his article here. Jim and I have warned about this before, and it looks as though the future is upon us. […]

. Check out this funny video from The Flip Side, showing what the world would be like if ladies acted like dudes while in a bar. While it’s funny, it’s also a utopia of sorts, where very attractive women aggressively pursue beer-commercial-grade guys; you’ll recognize at least one dude from a string of Bud Light […]

Looks good!  Oskar Blues will enter into the 16 oz tallboy cans with their first run of Deviant Dales IPA.  This IPA uses Dale’s pale ale as their base then dry hops the shit out of it 4 different times during the brewing process, and then again at the end when it goes into the […]

I am so glad that New Belgium made this beer.  Why, you might ask?  Because this beer, more than any other that is available commercially from them, has restored my faith in the brewing chops at New Belgium.  This beer is an ale that is brewed with cocoa and spices and comes in at 9% […]

I’m very curious to see how the Big Boy Breweries are planning to infiltrate the craft beer world, and on Monday we got to see another piece of the puzzle. MillerCoors’ craft beer division Tenth and Blake just acquired Crispin Cider Company, a Minneapolis-based brewer of cider.  I’ll be honest – I didn’t know that […]