A Brighter Shade of Pale: The Weary APA Roars Back

It wasn’t too long ago that the Pale Ale, in either authentic English or nouveau American Pale Ale (“APA”) version, Continue reading →

Deschutes Down ‘N’ Dirty & Big Rig: Back From The Future

These are beers you’re going to see at picnics and softball games and rafting trips and bicycle races and around Continue reading →

Jordan Gleason, Black Acre Brewing, & The American Troglodytes

Let me get this off my chest ONCE, in the pages of this blog, and then I can just use Continue reading →

Reuben’s Brews: Lifting The Bar on Sour

  Once Upon A Time…if you went looking for a bottle or can of beer from Washington, anywhere else in Continue reading →

Full Sail’s Full Monty: Bourbon Barrel Wheatwine Bliss

This beer is voluptuous and immensely sensual; one of the most purely sexy ales I’ve come across in a long Continue reading →

No, Cassandra, There Is No Consensus

  Sometime within the last few hours, I received a reply to my latest post on the skeevy shenanigans of Continue reading →

The Abyss 2015 x 3: Fresh Out of Adjectives

  I had intended to write this post about the THREE(!) versions of Deschutes Brewery’s “The Abyss” – that legendary, Continue reading →

Budweiser Versus American Beer: The Heart of The Matter

What if a good friend wrote you a letter…and in this letter, your friend said that he or she needed Continue reading →