In The Craft Beer Paradise, is YOUR Stadium a Dry Hole?

After my last two visits to CenturyLink Field, the home stadium of the Seattle Seahawks, a ghost from my past Continue reading →

Beer and Guns: How Craft Beer Shows Us The Way to Disarm

Many of you will read this and think, “Wow, this guy is really stretching his point to infinity and beyond” Continue reading →

Fred Franzia, Vani Hari, Two Buck Chuck and the New Stupidity

In the entire history of The Pour Fool, I have never once singled out any individual for criticism. I’ve bashed Continue reading →

Men’s Journal, Sierra Nevada, and Some Choice Language about “Best”

Just this morning, I clicked on a link that wound up on my Twitter feed, leading to a post  entitled Continue reading →

The Programming of The American Drinker: Why Do We Like What We Like?

What you’re about to read here is the product of the past 23 years of work in the beverage trade Continue reading →

The Case Against BevMo and Total Wine: “Drink Local” Means More Than You Think

I wrote this thing once, already. But then I realized something: You already know all this stuff. You just sometimes Continue reading →

Revolution Brewing and Three Taverns Beer: The Weary Traveler and Teeth-Gnashing in Chicago

On my trip back to Virginia, this past week, one of my primary aims – besides seeing my mother for Continue reading →

Absurd Beer List #1,675,334: A Simple Desultory Phillipic

Okay, here’s the set-up, the trigger, the thing which set my teeth on edge: My good Facebook pal and UNCGreensboro Continue reading →