Format Change, Texas Hooch, and Aging Badly
This was my first chance to sorta live with a Texas whiskey and I was so pleased with it, I brought one back to Tacoma.
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The High End Brown Water: A Self-Pampering Guide
If you’re flush enough, and not a tight-fisted misanthrope like me, you CAN, absolutely give a genuinely magnificent bottle o’ hooch without straying into Bankruptcy Territory.
American Sour and Wild Ales: Where’s the Niche?
PUT DOWN, for five fucking minutes, the IPA glass and at least try something that you have assumed, on no evidence, you wouldn’t like. Because you MIGHT. And it MIGHT change the way you look at a LOT of what’s overlooked in this country.
Consolidation in Brewing: How the Indies Stay Indie
For those brewers who do NOT want to hang it up, this idea may well be a viable means of continuing the brand at a lower-impact scale.
The American Media in 2024: Is Something Afoot?
I do not think, by any means, that the entirety of American journalism has simply sold out to the lunatic Right…and here’s why.
OFF TOPIC: Schrodinger’s Ballot
In November, the continued existence of America is riding on YOUR vote, on MY vote, on the votes of every sane and decent person we know.
Echoes Brewing: A Brewer’s Resurrection
I could go on about what I find when I do a tasting at Echoes but my real goal, here, is to encourage anyone who reads this to get the hell OUT of Seattle, once in a while.
Regaining Clarity: In Praise of the West Coast IPAs
Brewers have managed to find techniques and ingredients – especially a spate of newer hybrided and imported hops – that pack as much flavor and/or fruitiness into clear beers as were the main reason Hazys came to popularity.
The Pour Fool 