The Modern Internet: Releasing Your Inner Rhinoceros
The Internet Disease: the false feeling of validation and Significance that comes from your name, there on a screen, for everybody to see.
The Pour Fool
Veteran writer, Steve Body, on beer, wine, spirits, the Business Of, and those who make them…and occasionally Other Things.
Deschutes Whiskey Butte: The Dangerous Sublime
Whiskey Butte is, ho-hum, just another significant Achievement from a brewery that produces such New Classics as casually as Mozart wrote symphonies.
Wine Beer Spirits: The Extraordinary Power of IDK
“I don’t know…” A lot – maybe even most – people will do almost anything to avoid saying those words. Continue reading
Deschutes “Jubelale”: An American Icon, Reimagined
Jubelale’s immense popularity sets a tone that lets other brewers experiment with making winter seasonals that go beyond the high ABV warmers of our past and into styles that hold their interest year-round.
Sarah’s Vineyard Estate Chardonnay: Grace Amongst the Garlic
Sarah’s Vineyard Estate Chardonnay 2018 is a flat-damned marvelous bottle of white wine that avoids all the tired Chardonnay clichés and delivers California sunshine by the bucket load.
Out of The Blue: David Paige’s Pinot Blanc is a Revelation
This is the best American Pinot Blanc I have ever tasted. Period. Hunt over, piss on the fire and call in the dogs.
The Fool’s Choice 2021: 8 All Time Best Reds Under $10
Virtually ever since I started in the retail wine biz, back there in 1996, I have kept an ongoing list of wines that offer genuinely spectacular value for the prices charged. Here are eight all-time reds.
Jeff Altman’s Beer Bible Updated: Nice Guys Finish Books
This will be short, mainly because the book is fairly short and I already said most of this, back in Continue reading
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