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.
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Veteran writer, Steve Body, on beer, wine, spirits, the Business Of, and those who make them…
Cameron Hughes: A Little Bombast, a LOT of Wine
I was knocked sideways by these wines. These are jaw-dropping wines at prices that will drop your jaw even further, right through the freakin’ floor.
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.
Double Mountain Brewery: How d’Ya Like Them Apples?
With every new iteration, Double Mountain has NAILED – I mean like with a sledgehammer – what they were going for in these bottles. Every time, with zero missteps.
Deschutes “Only Slightly Exaggerated” IPA: One of THOSE Beers
This is a bottle of Magic…one of those beers. From one of those places. At one of those times when we all could really use a little touch of Something Wonderful.
Crux Coolship Series: A Fundamental Denial of The Box
Crux Gypsy Coolship – the idea and this beer – is a blast of fresh air, fresh inspiration, and fresh flavors that blows the cobwebs off a crowded beer culture.
WILDLY Off-Topic: A Big Ol’ Fat-Ass Mess o’ Philosophical Haiku
To feel closer to the departed Scrotum , I guess, out came these 41 little pearls, not so much cast before swine as authored by one.
PAUSE: The Enemy of Beer of Wine of Whiskey…of Life
When I was a child, it was fairly rare to find a family touched by cancer. Today…it’s rare to find any single individual who doesn’t own a storehouse of pain from the loss of someone they loved.
