The Two Worlds of Wine: A Long-Simmering Rant
The whole culture of wine is and always has been, at least in part, about exclusion, of an established pecking order in wine consumption and appreciation that is as old as wine itself.
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Veteran writer, Steve Body, on beer, wine, spirits, the Business Of, and those who make them…and occasionally Other Things.
A Brief, Sixty-Year Trip Back to Virginia
We should all rage. Every day…And along that way, we’ll all fall down, from time to time. But there is one thing you should embrace…Get Back Up.
Dear Russell: You Blew It. Cowboy Up.
You are 38, now. None of us wanted to say it but this changes the dynamic: you’re not what you once were…And legacies are a function of Time. They are not established in one or two years and how many do you have left?
Two Beers “Southern Resident”: Killer. Whale. Beer.
IMO, this is one of at least the top ten IPAs I have EVER tasted from WA state. It us STUPIDLY fine: lovely subtle fruit flavors, dazzling, fine-grained, prettily BITTER Chinook hops, great, satisfying body, pleasing finish…a bona fide masterpiece
A Cruxian Pursuit: Young Whiskey with an Old Soul
Crux/Pursuit Straight Bourbon Whiskey is a delicious, fascinating, grown-up bottle of American Bourbon and it is absolutely worth the $$$, if any Whiskey is.
A Dog Days Swan Song: The Bittersweet End of a Legend
Hair of The Dog occupies a category of One. It’s remained the very definition of what “small independent craft brewery” means and SHOULD mean.
Tacoma – and Your Hometown: A Metaphor and A Cautionary Tale
This future is something not that we have to create, it is something we get to create; a wonderful, limitless challenge and can be enormous fun and a good living, IF we have the guts and don’t let the knee-jerk naysayers drag us off the path, into their weeds.
Deschutes Black Butte NA: No Alcohol, No Suckage
When something comes along that changes the paradigm of a culture or even a product class, like Deschutes Black Butte NA absolutely has done, the bar, the minimum requirement for quality moves in an almost visible way.
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