Coming Next Week: Best of The Northwest, 2015!

  Next week, the most popular feature of this blog returns again, in it’s new calendar slot. Best of The Continue reading →

Stone and Bale Breaker and 4 Hands and Peaches and…WOW!

  The bottle that you see below did a bit of traveling before it reached my brand new doorway. UPS Continue reading →

Deschutes Hop Trip and Chasin’ Freshies: The LATEst Fresh

  The fallout from my heinous last eight months of deciding to move and then renovating, selling, designing a new Continue reading →

Cedar Springs Brewing: Schmeckt Gut From the Git Go

Today, Friday, November the 13th, a brand new brewery is opening. Now, you’re gonna say, “Ya Fool, breweries open every Continue reading →

From the Heart of Craft Brewing: One Fool…and Garrett Oliver

  Last Friday, a guy named Mike Barber, an editor from SWAY Journal, the blog(ish) arm of G&S Branding, a Continue reading →

LATE!! 21st Amendment Toaster Pastry: The Ale That Saved My Life

“I’m late, I’m late for A very important date. No time to say hello, good-bye, I’m late, I’m late, I’m Continue reading →

Top of Tacoma and Lagunitas: The American Quintessence

Maybe it’s part of aging. Maybe it’s ingrained artsyness. Maybe it’s just as plain as habitual overthinking. But as I Continue reading →

Deschutes Jubealale, 2015 Edition: #BestJubelYet

  I can tell this twisted tale now, with a year’s remove, because A) it’s kinda funny, now, and B) Continue reading →