Rant #2: Your REAL Wine Tasting Rules

This is going to be short and sweet…okay, not so sweet because I’m pissed off about this and have been Continue reading →

The Pour Fool Survey #1: “What’s In YOUR Glass?”

This will take you about three minutes – maybe sixteen if you text everyone you know and tell them about Continue reading →

Full Sail, pFriem, Fish Brewing, etc.: The CDA Emerges from Darkness

Just What IS a Cascadian Dark Ale? Cascadian. Dark. Ale. Three words which, taken one by one, are fairly easy Continue reading →

QPR: The Value of Wine versus The Cost of Wine

“I only drink (Silver Oak)(Leonetti)(Caymus)(Mouton Rothschild)(etc., etc.). You pay less for your wine, you just get less wine.” Boy, if Continue reading →

JaM Session: How John Truchard Found His Groove

John Truchard’s life plan was all laid out in front of him, by fate and fortunes instead of deliberation and Continue reading →

Why YOU Should Reject Budweiser…and Why America Should

Here we are, heading into the Holidays for 2016, and Facebook coughs up something I posted in this blog, just Continue reading →

Craft Beer& Brewing’s “Best Of” 2016: Here We Go Again…

THIS is a TOTAL RANT, a LONG rant, (well, maybe not by The Pour Fool standards but it started on Continue reading →

Deschutes (with a HoTDog): An Annual Avalanche of Ale Art

THREE (okay, FOUR, one a collaboration) insanely great beers from Deschutes…these arrived within about fifteen days and I took my Continue reading →