Author: Samuel Sly Location: Denver I was sitting in the middle of I-70 traffic, had inched one tenth of a mile over the course of 20 minutes and was now at a standstill. My teeth: sore from clenching. My knuckles: white from an iron-clad grip on the steering wheel. My […]
Author: Samuel Sly Not many people know this is actually the second coming of BnL. The website is about journeys – beer soaked journeys. The voyage of how we arrived at this point is a beer soaked tale that never really gets discussed because it involves a bit of failure. […]
Author: Samuel Sly A developing palette can be as awkward as being the last guy sprouting pubes in middle school. Like jerks pointing and laughing in the shower room, elitist drinkers make others feel inadequate about their knowledge simply by talking down to people and making beer seem like an […]
I thought I knew how to rock a beer festival up until a few weeks ago. My confidence was shattered when I poured at a beer festival and wound up falling off my bike 10 times and shredding my elbows. I recently went for redemption at the Epic Beer Festival’s […]
I woke up with a pug’s butthole in my face Sunday morning. Luckily, I knew exactly where I was even though I wasn’t positive how I got there. Animal ass in your face tends to make you take a moral and physical inventory, or at least it should, and I […]
This is just a ramble, I’m not necessarily trying to make a point. We seem to celebrate a lot. Every day is “National something day” and this entire week has been given to craft beer. Initially I was ecstatic. A whole week to celebrate something that is a huge part […]
I‘m walking along Colfax on a sunny February morning in Denver eating a banana. I’ve only lived in this neighborhood a month, and today is my first walk downtown. I’m nervous. Damn nervous. It’s not my surroundings, possibility of a zombie breakout or fear of dropping my banana. I’m heading […]
I’m drawn to dingy venues, cheap beers and juke boxes like a 12 year old boy to tits. This past summer, a bar that was a hugely influential pair of tits to me closed, and I want to pay the appropriate tribute. We all had an establishment from our early […]
Are you sitting at work, bored and nothing to do? Forget how your asshole boss is micromanaging while we say stupid shit in the background! Sweet! (It’s our first podcast, so let us know what you think. Only up from here!) So what you ever done when you have ever […]
At 30 years old, puberty is about as far from my mind as Pogs, Boys II Men, Doug, Shaq’s horrible movies and chasing girls around the playground. Now I have bills, P.O.S., Archer, Shaq’s basketball commentary career and trying not to get restraining orders from chasing girls. Even with these […]
I wake up on the couch fully clothed. It’s six am and my alarm is going off because I’m an idiot who doesn’t turn off his alarm on a holiday weekend. The world is too loud, too bright and spinning way too goddamn fast. I’m all for new experiences (If […]
I’m on a bus in Aspen, Colorado and it’s about 28 hours until 2013 starts. If you’re just joining the story, you should click here and here to get some background on why I’m on the bus and the remarkable journey I took to get to this point. Like a […]
Last week’s post ended with me in the middle of Aspen, Colorado making the most of a New Year’s Eve vacation in a city I’m unfamiliar with and may be prejudice against. We already spent one evening at a fine restaurant, overslept for snowboarding, and were now digging into some […]
I posted once about my distaste for high-end clubs and rubbing elbows with the social elite. I’ll re-emphasize: I would rather sit in a dive bar talking to a guy speaking indecipherable gibberish, fearing for my life than go to a club and fist pump with a bunch of goofy-haired, […]
The Craft vs. Crafty debate lingers after it’s utter explosion a few months ago. Plenty of people’s feelings were hurt. Heated debates ensued. This post may be late to the game, but I want to have transparency on where I stand. For anyone who has no idea what this GREAT […]