Talkin’ Tastes, Prices, Quality, and Bullshit: A Pre-Christmas Primer
Unless you Trust Yourself, you’re always going to be a little disappointed with wine, your beer, that special whiskey, and never really understand why.
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Veteran writer, Steve Body, on beer, wine, spirits, the Business Of, and those who make them…
Deschutes “Jubelale”: A Simple Ongoing Miracle
Deschutes Jubelale is one of the best beers in the world. It has been for thirty-one years. It doubtless will be for the next thirty-one.
Walla Walla Vintners: A Sangio, a Franc, and a New Era
I’m not going to suggest that Walla Walla Vintners is better than the original. I am going to say that, in my opinion, it is at least as good as the original…and that is Saying Something.
Wee Drams 1: SD Beer Week, Booker’s, Knob Creek, Fort George(!), and More
Just a few of the more interesting events, products, and tidbits from the quasi-rational world of adult beverages.
And Now, Heineken, nee Lagunitas Brewing: Douche Bags, Part Deux
I GUARANTEE that you can find, in very short order, a beer that’s even BETTER that your fave Lagunitas quaff, if you put down the Brown Shugga, step away from the whored-out pint, and visit some of your own area’s breweries.
Founders Brewing: An Ugly Episode. A Paradigm Shift. And Hearing The Same Old Shit.
This is not a case of he said/he said. Founders admitted that the racial slurs were used. And one of the employees who used them was still on the payroll past the time a lawsuit was filed by the victim.
Barr an Uisce Irish Whiskey: A Wee Change o’ the Paradigm
Apparently, I’ve been living under a rock when it comes to Irish Whiskey. Barr an Uisce is a celebrated distillery that wins spirits medals so often that they have to borrow a wheelbarrow to get the things back home.
The Good, the Bad, and The Future: Why Crazy Matters
We have to embrace the Crazy. We have to have our prissy assumptions and preconceptions and even our tastes offended, abused, and kicked in the nuts. It’s how we evolve.
