Dress appropriately for work, because you end up turning off the AC.

As a beer just shy of 10% alcohol, this is a pretty big beer in a pretty big bottle. Ommegang has, rather impressively, produced a world-class beer that offers delicious complexity while in our own time-zone.

…let’s quit this bullshit already and get some due process.

So I’m sitting here after a day of selling other people’s beer, trying to write this article, sipping what was my attempt at a homemade barleywine (a very strong flavorful type of beer).

The alcohol content fell well below what the style calls for; and yet it stands on its own as a beer, having strong [...]

Beer reviews: Legend Brown Ale and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Plus, ‘Is There A Draught in Here?’, notes on home brewing.

One tastes, through use of American malt, citrusy American hops, and less alcohol, a sense of Californian freedom rather than British colonialism.

To me, St. Patrick’s day is more than that. I don’t mean to say it’s strictly a day to pound Guinness, Jameson and Bailey’s in massive quantities. That is to say, if you’d like to get hammered in such a manner, I strongly encourage you (additionally, if you want to do shots of tequila and drink Dos Equis come Cinco de Mayo, I’m down) but for me it is a chance to consider my own inner Irish-ness.

As a blogger, I try to make the occasional funny.  If I’m lucky, I get one or two comments that let me know my comments were provocative enough that it caused someone’s thoughts to flow from their frontal lobes to their fingers and type something back to me.  Unfortunately, most people don’t comment.  I mean, [...]

In short, Jesus was best known for two things, the first of which is the idea that love and kindness in the community combined with forgiveness of sins was more important than a strict adherence to the finer points of Jewish law. Secondly, Jesus was known for taking the sins of the world on his own shoulder and basically taking brunt of the consequences for the evils of mankind.

A specific group has caused as much harm as 30 Iran Contra scandals: ballers.