Yeah, when you search Google for images of the Devastator, this is what you get.  Lots of robots and kids toys!  Why do we name toys for children Devastator?  Carnage and destruction is what this guy wreaks and for $24.99 your child can dominate the world and his friends with a plastic piece of garbage.  You […]

So far, I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve had from Nogne O, the Norwegian brewery that’s part of the Mikkeller family.  I’m sorry to say that streak has come to an abrupt end.  What you see above is one of their beers being poured into my sink.  It was unceremoniously returned to the sea, never to be purchased again…

Man do I love Blueberries!  They are perhaps my favorite fruit.  Every time we go to the Oregon coast we make sure we are there in time for blueberry season.  We go to the U-Pick farms and everyone gets a coffee can that has a rope threaded through it to suspend it from their neck […]

Well the makers might want you to think so, but actually their contents are better than Jack.  It is an old advertising trick, let someone do a great job of branding and create a huge following, then come along with a product that looks virtually identical and maybe people will buy it by mistake.  Or […]

Man did we learn a lot about this this weekend in the NFL.  Just think about the scrutiny the quarterbacks of each of the four championship teams got before, during, and after each game!  My God the pressure must have been immense.  Mark Sanchez is too young, Brett Favre is too old, Drew Brees is […]

I stopped by to visit with Kevin (Dark Lord of the Stout) at the Liquor Outlet in Boonton, NJ last night.  He’s the beer buyer there and he has a real passion for craft beer.  He’s one of the friendliest and most knowledgeable beer nerds I know. Turns out he’s one of the most generous, […]

I was transported last night to a place far far away!  Perhaps it was a galaxy, and perhaps it was just a happy place that I have never been to before, but it was transforming!  It all started at my local beer store.  See in Idaho we don’t have a great selection of brews to […]

I had the idea to do this throwdown, because coffee porters are getting a lot of attention lately on the various posts, and I had the Rogue that I had picked up previously, so I got the Pipeline and was going to do a two coffee Porter throwdown.  I happened to mention this to Rick […]

Now, I’m not a superstitious person, but I can tell you exactly what I’ll be drinking come 3pm on Sunday – the luckiest beer in the world, Southern Tier Oat. You see, for the past two weeks I’ve just happened to be enjoying a Southern Tier Oat (their fabulously aggressive imperial oatmeal stout) while watching […]

It has been a quest as old as time itself, man searching for the secret to lift the affects of aging.  The magical fountain of youth, just drink the water and roll back the clock!  What an amazing concept, people trying to reverse the aging process and be forever young.  We’ve sung songs about it, […]

Now one thing that a lot of people on this blog probably don’t know about me is that I used to live in Alaska.  I lived just outside Anchorage in a little town called Eagle River, and one of my family’s favorite activities while we were there was to go to the start of the […]

Wilford Brimley has long been the image that comes to mind when you think about oats.  We finally get past the image on the Quaker Oats package, and traded one curmudgeon for another.  Seriously how did the oat get so unlucky?  It would be like if C. Everet Coop started doing advertisements for the healthful benefits […]

One is a lonely number, and oftentimes a group can do things better than one.  Of course there is the exception here and there,  like you wouldn’t want two NFL Head Coaches on a team.  Can you imagine the chaos that might happen if two people gave the orders on the field.  Similarly you wouldn’t want […]

Don Vito Corleone was famous for his offers you can’t refuse, do so and your life was mmmm…lets say, in question.  Marlin Brando played the mobster in this quintessential role.  So if you are so bold as to name a beer after the Godfather it best live up to the name.  The folks at Laughing […]

Well I find myself back in Grangeville, Idaho.  Another project meeting at the highway district tomorrow at 1:00pm.  With the weather being unpredictable I chose to come up the day before and hang out at the hotel room for the evening while I watched the end of the Independence Bowl and the final broadcast of […]