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.
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Deschutes “Jubelale”: A Simple Ongoing Miracle
Deschutes Jubelale is one of the best beers in the world. It has been for thirty-one years. It doubtless will be for the next thirty-one.
Wee Drams 1: SD Beer Week, Booker’s, Knob Creek, Fort George(!), and More
Just a few of the more interesting events, products, and tidbits from the quasi-rational world of adult beverages.
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.
The Good, the Bad, and The Future: Why Crazy Matters
We have to embrace the Crazy. We have to have our prissy assumptions and preconceptions and even our tastes offended, abused, and kicked in the nuts. It’s how we evolve.
The Crux Fresh/Wet Hops: An Embarrassment of Riches
Here in the cradle of the world’s hops production, the use of and experimentation with hops borders on a religion. And Larry Sidor is arguably the High Priest.
The Hard Seltzer Thing: NOT Buyin’ It
If you walk into a brewery taproom and start extolling the virtues of seltzer over beer, expect to evoke laughter and derision.
