Wine Descriptors: The Translators Are Almost Always Wrong
You’re reading this now because, as with one other post, here, last week, this little gremlin popped up AGAIN, yesterday, looking for all the world like it was brand new.
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“Wine Tasting is Bullshit”: A Stake in the Heart of a Moronic Myth
If you want advice on your cholesterol level, do you go to a guy who repairs lawnmowers? You want advice about wine, go to somebody who knows wine.
Rant # Two on Hard Seltzer: On the Occasion of Idiocy
This adulation of frat-boy tastes ignores a major FACT of the Craft Beer Phenomenon: we all went All In on craft beer because we wanted flavors – and not the same three that were all BudMillerCoorsPabst had to offer.
When Did Rarity Start to Equal Greatness?: The Hunting of Fake Whales
New Belgium and Kirin/Lion: All Too Predictable, All Too Crass
We’ll see what happens with NB. But one thing is an ironclad certainty: as long as brewery owners care more about raking in the $$$ than the relationship between themselves and their loyal fans, these sell-outs will continue.
Talkin’ Tastes, Prices, Quality, and Bullshit: A Pre-Christmas Primer
Unless you Trust Yourself, you’re always going to be a little disappointed with wine, your beer, that special whiskey, and never really understand why.
And Now, Heineken, nee Lagunitas Brewing: Douche Bags, Part Deux
I GUARANTEE that you can find, in very short order, a beer that’s even BETTER that your fave Lagunitas quaff, if you put down the Brown Shugga, step away from the whored-out pint, and visit some of your own area’s breweries.
Founders Brewing: An Ugly Episode. A Paradigm Shift. And Hearing The Same Old Shit.
This is not a case of he said/he said. Founders admitted that the racial slurs were used. And one of the employees who used them was still on the payroll past the time a lawsuit was filed by the victim.
