7 Year Itch: A Fiction
I don’t know why I brought the bottle of beer into the cafe, I don’t know why I do anything anymore. I mean, in my mind the concept made sense but these days the...
There are a LOT of places where you can go to read beer reviews. Hell, I’ll probably link to a few of them myself once I get the old Blog Roll rollin’. So instead of an analytical review of a particular beer, I’m going to write about the experience. What was happening (in the wastelands of my mind or in the desert of the real) when I popped that particular cap. I mean, sure: I’ll tell you if I liked it or not. But beer is so damn subjective that, even if I had a competent, Cicerone-certified palate, your taste and experience of a certain beer could be vastly different. And we’d both be right! So if you’re looking for a clinical break down of beers, you won’t find it here. But if you want to pull up a stool and listen to this fool then give me your glass and let’s tear into that growler!
I don’t know why I brought the bottle of beer into the cafe, I don’t know why I do anything anymore. I mean, in my mind the concept made sense but these days the...
Life’s quest for truth & compatibility ultimately comes down to time. Will this add or subtract from my overall experience and do I have the time to find out? It’s About Time, a double...
The first week of a new year is a string of days, like any other. Or is it? Often used as a time of reflection, these days can hold power, elevating them above their...
Utopia: an imagined place or state of perfection. In my Utopia each beached piece of driftwood holds a tale within it twist and a treasure at its core. Utopia, a Dry Hopped Peach Sour...
This beauty of a BFF is about a NE IPA named Pablo Esco Gnar, the second coming of a collaboration between two of British Columbia’s best Bedouin breweries: Superflux Beer Company and Boombox Brewing...
Oftentimes it is the back road taking us where we need to go… The Marzen, by Backroads Brewing Company out of Nelson, BC. So here’s my mea culpa, I’m on the record as...
This beer was a contributing factor to winning the S2SBG Award for Best Beer of the Summer. Dazy, a Double Hazy IPA by Russell Brewing. You may ask yourself, how could a beer be...
And now for your reading pleasure: the manuscript of a short vignette I’ve written inspired by Andina Brewing Company’s Blonde IPA named… Monita. “Oh Monita! You scandal, you red-letter-lover! Are you the cause of...
Hey, how’s your rope-swing game? Personally, it’s been awhile. But I feel like, under the right circumstances, I could swing again. I’ve said in the past that styles such as lagers and light ales...
Close your eyes. Imagine yourself sitting in a well-made wooden chair, lakeside in the late afternoon. The slats of the Adirondack are warm, releasing the sun they absorbed into your chore-worn muscles. There’s a...
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