This week we host Jeff and Mike, aka Airman and Scarbs, from PARADOX Beer Company in the BnL studio. We discuss a ton of stuff. Airman answers everything in a completely level headed manner and Scarbs washes our sampling glasses. We do have an awesome chat and get down to some deep […]
Remember kamikazes as a kid? Basically filling up your cup at the soda fountain with every single goddamn drink that would come out of the taps? No? Then your childhood was sad, lonely and not delicious. Well, we had some leftover bottles sitting around at the ass end of a […]
This episode has it all. Joy, shame, conflict, redemption and some beers. We brought our friend Michael from Saugatuck Brewing Company back on the show to see how he liked our new format. He handled it like any seasoned pro would, even thought Pete tried to drag us down into some […]
“HOOOOLLYYY SHIT! It’s been a while since we’ve done a podcast!” – Pete It’s true though. And now we’re back at it. To celebrate the occasion, we invited our friends Ryan from Focus on the Beer and Tristan from Porchdrinking.com to help test out our new show. We get into […]
I was standing on a bike trail in pitch black dark. The rear tire of my borrowed bike was (I assumed) shredded. Just moments before, a commemorative pint glass or two fell out the bag I was carrying over my shoulder, shattered on the asphalt and interacted with the tubeless […]
Here I am. Driving by myself once again. This time the journey is about 330 miles and roughly six hours. I’m several hours outside Denver and just finished a quick pit stop at Elevation Brewing Company for a burrito and a brew. I’m barreling down two lane highways seeing a […]
It’s a Sunday evening. I’ve spent most of the day doing food related chores. Grocery shopping. Making beef and broccoli in a crockpot. Prepping for my first-ever attempt to make my own beef jerky. All this is being done sober to boot. I know, I know. How can this be […]
Featuring Photography by Peter Strobridge Colorado Craft Beer Week fell on March 21-28 this year. The celebration is just another one of the countless week long celebrations of craft beer where special tappings, releases and general Yippie-kye-aye type shit runs rampant across the city/state/nation the aforementioned holiday applies to. Ninkasi […]
For those who have seen “The Shining,” you probably know the iconic final scene with Jack Nicholson frozen solid. A beautiful, cinematic psycho-cicle. Stephen King’s classic horror novel was brought to life beautifully in a hotel located in the pacific northwest. The actual hotel that inspired his novel, on the […]
Sports and beer together can create a magical land wherever you are standing. Long ago when I was just a wee lad before I was allowed to imbibe, I noticed my mom yelling obscenities at the big ass console TV during games of all kinds. Oddities like “Tackle that son […]
If someone by chance actually follows along with this blog, I try to make a point of saying how much I love pouring at beer festivals. We’re coming up on nearly a year from one that was pretty extreme, and after finding the draft, I had to doctor it up […]
How can you tell when an IPA is great? It’s a lot like love and you just know, but I wasn’t satisfied with that answer and put Ninkasi In order to get the effective outcomes of your decisions, if you want to make informed decisions, then you will be able […]
About five or so years ago, Pete and I were out and about on a mid-week St. Paddy’s Day holiday. We were sitting in my house drinking god-knows-what and both came to the conclusion, “Hey, we need some car bombs right this fucking moment.” We weren’t in the mood to actually […]
I recently conducted a panel of experts and beer lovers to weigh in on the Bell’s/Innovation legal clusterfuck. Here’s a short video (warning, a few ‘fuck’s’ are thrown You need to take few drops of respitecaresa.org female viagra sildenafil the oil and rub it on the male organ. Sometimes they […]
Pliny the Younger (PtY) is an interesting phenomenon to me. There are two general trains of thought: some feel it’s a well marketed over hyped beer while others think it’s one of the best beers in the world. I’m starting to join the camp of the former, but that doesn’t […]