Bill Clinton–while trying to circumvent an incriminating answer to the Grand Jury regarding his Oval Office Philandering–stated, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is?” Rather than fess up to the truth of his affair (that was later confirmed from sequestered emails) Clinton beat around the bush in a semantic game. [...]
Craft beer has always prided itself in offering one thing that the big macro lager producers fail to: Flavor. But in that past several years or so, the craft scene seems to have taken that offering and grown it exponentially. Beers are being brewed with obscene hop levels, bombastic malt backing, and at times, seemingly [...]
No matter how much beer seems to be growing, it still seems to remain wine’s ugly cousin. Many, many, many presumptions keep beer’s status well below what it ought to be. I’ve often seen complaints from people about the cost of a four or six pack, yet those same people don’t have an issue paying [...]
Beer…what’s the point? I can think of two scenarios in which I’ve been asked, “Why do you drink beer?” Perhaps you can identify with at least with one of the situations: 1. A concerned friend believes that drinking alcohol is sinful, and concerned for my well being asks: “Why do you drink beer?” 2. Fellow [...]
I’m really interested in hearing some of your stories about sharing good beer and helping others have epiphanies. So far, it’s not been a bad year at all. For instance, my father-in-law frequently states that I’ve ruined him for life. He was formally a Coors Light drinker and now doesn’t drink anything less than Sam [...]
A discussion on the legality of parents allowing their underage children samples of beer
The older I get, the more difficult I find it is to stay awake at certain times. I can’t even drive at night anymore. I would fall asleep at the wheel if I drove too late, I fall asleep at church (shhh!), I fall asleep at the computer, etc. Maybe as I get older my [...]
A thought occurred to me lately: one of my doctors knows that I homebrew and essentially hinted that he would love to try some. I know that he likes decent beer and really is an appreciator of wine. For that reason, I took him a homebrew. Loving to share my brews is truly one of [...]
I nearly choked on my craft beer as I read this news-blog article’s title and ensuing body: Beer tax: Why nail Pabst and not ‘high falutin’ microbrews? Are Washington’s Democratic state lawmakers microbrew drinking, Merlot swilling elitists? At a news conference Tuesday Gov. Chris Gregoire was asked to comment on the relative fairness of taxing [...]
Read no further if you don’t care about Dark Lord Day. Well, have you gotten your Dark Lord tickets? I have. It seems that nothing is definite just yet; we don’t know what we’ll be able to get with them. If you look at the muddled script on the Dark Lord Day ticket, you will [...]
