The Pumpkin Beer Thing: A Short View

“More for the rest of us, Chuckles…“ I’ve gotten a few emails – well, by actual count, 271 emails – Continue reading →

WILDLY Off-Topic: A Return Proposal For The NFL

This is SO stupidly off topic to The Pour Fool that I can’t even really justify to myself the fact Continue reading →

Are You OUT OF YOUR MIND?!?: The Pour Fool’s Scoring System Explained

Yesterday, I gave a couple of bottles of pink wine 95 points… Even the winemakers laughed. Lots of you did, Continue reading →

Oregon Winemaker Pops Off, Fool Pops Cork

LONG, grumpy, provoked, probably provocative…My $.02 on the unending, stultifying, pointless debate on Burgundy versus California versus Oregon Pinot Noir, Continue reading →

The Fool’s Semi-Annual, Self Destructive Throw-Down on Self-Reliance

I’m astounded. Really. Have been for going on eight years, now. Back when I started The Pour Fool, I figured Continue reading →

Let’s Level The Field on “Local”: An Immodest Proposal

 The proposal you’re about to read is fairly simple but it would require some cojones and collective effort of a Continue reading →

Jordan Gleason, Black Acre Brewing, & The American Troglodytes

Let me get this off my chest ONCE, in the pages of this blog, and then I can just use Continue reading →

No, Cassandra, There Is No Consensus

  Sometime within the last few hours, I received a reply to my latest post on the skeevy shenanigans of Continue reading →