Doug McCrea: A Small Paean and a Large Plea For Ideas
Doug McCrea has earned the respect of winemakers across this entire country, has made an extraordinary and incalculable contribution to whatever Washington wine has evolved into, here in 2018.
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French Wine, French DNA, and a Little French Bulldog
FACT: IF you are really devoted to actually being – as opposed to pretending to be – a highly-knowledgeable wine connoisseur, there is no such thing as a shortcut.
RANT(S): One Beer, One Whiskey, and One Can O’ Whoop-Ass
Rants about Fake (Brewery) News, the dumbing-down of whiskey, and people who interrupt others.
Resuming The Pour Fool: An Aggravated RANT
If a CRAFT brewery stocks mass-produced crap and does NOTHING to offer patrons a better alternative to watery trash Pilsners, how will they ever get them to drink their own beers?
The Hazy Beer Thang: Cloudy, with a Chance of Sour
Drink beer made by great brewers and you’ll find great hazy beers. Drink just any old haze…and you may just wind up soured on the whole style.
Of Beer, Bullshit, and Self-Serving Rationales
#cantweallgetalong…Hell, no, we cannot. I’m not going to name the author of the following comment, since I did, for a Continue reading
The Republican Genocide: The Plot To Murder America
The Republican Party is willing to and is, in fact, planning to simply stand aside and check their iPhones and play Candy Crush while “nature takes its course”.
Golden Road Brewing: Stealth-Budsters with Their Slips Showing
I URGE the citizens of Oakland to fight this unwelcome, unsupported, oblivious, arrogant, presumptuous incursion into THEIR community, THEIR neighborhoods, and THEIR culture with every breath.
