Knudsen Vineyards: Making Chardonnay Matter

NOTE: I’m about to give a bottle of Chardonnay, here, a rating I’ve never even come close to considering and Continue reading →

The PNW’s REAL “Underrated” Breweries: The Antidote to a ?able List

My 2017 resolution to write shorter posts is sitting at about fifty/fifty, pass/fail. So I’m going to climb back on Continue reading →

Upslope, Goodwood, and Highlands: Communiques From FINE Breweries

Great beer is being made everywhere, these days, and little surprises like these, from my FedEx Beer Pimp, deliver the Continue reading →

The Pyramid (Brewing) Scheme: Make Great Beers!

ose I’ve had to make a couple of exceptions to my iron-clad rule against reviewing any brewery that’s even obliquely Continue reading →

Off Topic: Taxes, Trump, and The Big Con

Quick ‘n’ dirty, for this Pour Fool: Donald Trump is hiding something…and he’s doing it in the dumbest way possible, Continue reading →

Basil Hayden’s and Baker’s: Balls-Out Bourbon, Refined

    I grew up in the South, in the Allegheny Mountains of Virginia, hard up against the West By-God Continue reading →

Pure Bud BS: The Shortest Pour Fool Post Ever

  I’ve now been asked, by actual count, thirty-seven times in the past four days what I think of the Continue reading →