Saturday the 24th, as I posted a while back, was the date for HOPS! Oktoberfest. Earlier in the week, the weather reports all predicted a nice sunny day, but as the week wore on, rain started creeping into the forecast. Friday evening, as I left work, it wasn’t looking too good. And sure enough, the … [Read more…]
Beautiful. Brilliant. Badass, even. But what a waste. “The car will run on almost any bourbon, but she really purrs on Maker’s Mark” said Nilsson. Oh. Well maybe it’s not such a waste after all. /bourbonsnob Read about it on the Kegworks Blog. I heard about it via the Finch’s Beer Company twitter account: @FinchBeer.
Today is the Mexican version of St. Patrick’s Day, in which instead of wearing green and drinking cheap beer until you black out and pee on your neighbor’s dog, in America you wear whatever you feel like wearing but drink tequila until you vomit on the party host’s phone, something I haven’t done since I … [Read more…]
fuckin A-B is buying Goose Island John Hall, founder of Goose Island, is trying to put a pretty face on this, which I guess is what you do in a situation like this. A-B says they won’t change anything that Goose Island is doing already. But if you read all that you’ll see that Greg … [Read more…]
Well here we are, nearly a year out from Dark Lord Day 2009 and my promised recap post has still never materialized. Well I just recently remembered that I have this site and though I am not going to attempt a full recap at this time, here is a video from Draft Magazine. At around … [Read more…]
I have had a Dark Lord Day writeup in draft form since a few days after the event (over a month now) and have yet to file it. I apologize. I just bought a house and moved my family and have been busy recently. However, I will finish and post that writeup soon, as well … [Read more…]
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