So I’m in St Lois MO on vacation, visiting with some family, just catching up since we don’t get to spend a lot of time together. Its not like any of us live here, or close to it. Far from it. But it was relatively central location (between Indiana, Ohio, Memphis TN, and Minnesota), and [...]

A friend with some really great beers that we can’t get in Michigan gave me a can of this a little while ago. He had never had Alpha King from Three Floyds, so I passed one of those onto him. Was it a fair trade? The can popped with almost no carbonation. It felt strange [...]

So this beer was hyped upon its introduction into the Michigan market. Hell, all of Big Sky was, but this was widely recognized as their “best” beer – certainly their most popular. So does it live up to the hype? Sure, its tasty. A nice nuttiness to it. A highly drinkable brown. But at $2.19/bottle? [...]

So Brian and I are having a Beer Mile tonight! What exactly is a Beer Mile, you ask? 1) Run a quarter mile. 2) Drink a beer (or cider if you can’t drink beer. I have at least one friend with celiac). 3) Repeat! (until you’ve run a full mile and drank four beers) This [...]

So I’m a fair bit Scottish by ancestry. I’ve come to terms with the fact that while my people make excellent whiskey, they have never, on the whole, been and will probably never be great beer makers. But I still like to try some now and again. That’s what I was thinking when I bought [...]