Deschutes’ Revelation: Sagefight…and a couple more!

I’ll admit it: between some family demands and the election, (and the thousand cuts that age visits upon the bones) Continue reading →

Why GABF No Longer Matters

Bravo to all those brewers and brewery owners who have decided to say, “Enough“ Every time I claim I’m going Continue reading →

FUCK Budweiser: Your Basic Early Morning, Fed-Up Rant

IS THIS A RANT? OOOH, YOU BETTER BELIEVE  THIS IS A RANT!…     I’m getting mightily SICK of our Continue reading →

Crux Fermentation Project “Better Off Red”: The New Sour Attitude

    It will come as no surprise to know that the origins of sour beers came about by accident. Continue reading →

The Fool’s Fridge: Besides Deschutes, What DO I Drink?

Here is email Number 100, in a series I’ve now been receiving for the past eight years… “Aside from your Continue reading →

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 →

Deschutes “Hopzeit”: Cross-Cultural Cool

It’s hard for me to stay in denial about the fading of summer when football starts, trees start to turn, Continue reading →

Sound Brewery’s Mortal Kombat X Ales: KILLERS

Mark Hood of Sound Brewery, in tiny Poulsbo, Washington, sent me home with a trio of bottles last week; a Continue reading →