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“It’s Happening Again”: Stone Brewing is the New Pearl Harbor

It is categorically NOT impossible for an American brewery to flourish, expand, and PAY PEOPLE, including the owners, and not sell out to some mega-corp or brewing conglomerate. It is NOT the inevitable end-game of being a successful business.

Deschutes Black Butte NA: No Alcohol, No Suckage

When something comes along that changes the paradigm of a culture or even a product class, like Deschutes Black Butte NA absolutely has done, the bar, the minimum requirement for quality moves in an almost visible way.

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.

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.

Rant # Two on Hard Seltzer: On the Occasion of Idiocy

This adulation of frat-boy tastes ignores a major FACT of the Craft Beer Phenomenon: we all went All In on craft beer because we wanted flavors – and not the same three that were all BudMillerCoorsPabst had to offer.

“INDIE BEER”: Change is the Best Weapon

From this day forth, what we now call “craft brewing” and “craft beer” will be called “INDIE Beer”, in The Pour Fool.

Austin’s Independence Brewing Brings Its Lunch Pale

Old Southern joke: Jim Bob: “I’m gonna kick yore ass!” Joe Willy: “Better bring yore lunch pail, then, ’cause that’s Continue reading →

Let’s Level The Field on “Local”: An Immodest Proposal

 The proposal you’re about to read is fairly simple but it would require some cojones and collective effort of a Continue reading →

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