Crux Fermentation Project “Better Off Red”: The New Sour Attitude

    It will come as no surprise to know that the origins of sour beers came about by accident. Continue reading →

The Fool’s Fridge: Besides Deschutes, What DO I Drink?

Here is email Number 100, in a series I’ve now been receiving for the past eight years… “Aside from your Continue reading →

The Pumpkin Beer Thing: A Short View

“More for the rest of us, Chuckles…“ I’ve gotten a few emails – well, by actual count, 271 emails – Continue reading →

Deschutes “Hopzeit”: Cross-Cultural Cool

It’s hard for me to stay in denial about the fading of summer when football starts, trees start to turn, Continue reading →

Sound Brewery’s Mortal Kombat X Ales: KILLERS

Mark Hood of Sound Brewery, in tiny Poulsbo, Washington, sent me home with a trio of bottles last week; a Continue reading →

Off Topic: Colin Kaepernick and The Question of Credibility

I’m calling BS. I’m about as far from a staunch defender of the flag and our national symbols as anyone Continue reading →

WILDLY Off-Topic: A Return Proposal For The NFL

This is SO stupidly off topic to The Pour Fool that I can’t even really justify to myself the fact Continue reading →

Cruzan Rums: A Barely Conflicted Valentine

  Let me get right to this, in open defiance of nine years of tradition in The Pour Fool… Cruzan Continue reading →