The Beaujolais Thing: No, You Probably Don’t

  You’ve probably, by now, if you’re a wine lover, tasted a Beaujolais Nouveau and maybe even a Beaujolais-Villages or Continue reading →

Sailing Into Winter: Full Sail’s Darkness and Light

Full Sail recently sent me a bottle of their big, fat, brawny annual miracle, their Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout. My Continue reading →

21st Amendment “El Sully”: The Unbearable Lightness of Brewing

El Sully is a freakin’ MIRACLE of a beer – a Lager with flavor, complexity, character and enormous cojones. I Continue reading →

Intrinsic and Inferno: Steps Into The New Frontier of Wine

In June of 2014, about a month after this website was debuted, I posted something called “Winemakers In Bondage: Who Continue reading →

Auchentoshan: A Mouthful, Twice

I was recently sent a box of two different whiskeys from the brilliant, forward-thinking Scottish distillery, Auchentoshan. To be honest, Continue reading →

Deschutes’ Revelation: Sagefight…and a couple more!

I’ll admit it: between some family demands and the election, (and the thousand cuts that age visits upon the bones) Continue reading →

Why GABF No Longer Matters

Bravo to all those brewers and brewery owners who have decided to say, “Enough“ Every time I claim I’m going Continue reading →

FUCK Budweiser: Your Basic Early Morning, Fed-Up Rant

IS THIS A RANT? OOOH, YOU BETTER BELIEVE  THIS IS A RANT!…     I’m getting mightily SICK of our Continue reading →