Where do we go from here?   The words are coming out all weird! Where are you now, integrity, when I need you? Well, Dear Reader, perhaps I just had the bends and I was really sinking that low. So. Let us depart the barrel-aged imperial stout/corprocratic times of the recent past. Let’s walk or bike approximately six hundred... Read more →

Here’s the ninth and last barrel-aged imperial stout review for 2018.   Similar to the actual malt beverage, the story behind GOOSE ISLAND Bourbon County (Brand) Stout is complex, convoluted, and kinda crazy. Therefore, this review will be presented in three separate parts, which you, Dear Reader, will most likely find listed in... Read more →

Our fruit-focused, spice-sensing, and floral-finding wine drinking brothers and sisters certainly miss out on the diversity of malt beverage flavor profiles when they’re swirling and sniffing their simple drink created from fermented grape juice. One thing said wine brothers and sisters know much better than we superior beer guzzlers,... Read more →

There may be talk about corprocratic this or that and ideas of domination or selling out… –Tony Magee, 8 May 2017 Humanoids accusing other humanoids of violating vaguely defined ethics codes have been perpetually occurring since caveman drummer-on-rocks Zog yelled “You’ve changed, man!” at caveman lead grunter Zok after Zok... Read more →

A spontaneous decision to check out a venerable San Diego brewery’s new vegan restaurant/brewpub in downtown Los Angeles culminated in some world-expanding sips of the MODERN TIMES Devil’s Teeth, NOLA Coffee variant. Devil’s Teeth is Modern Times’ base barrel-aged imperial stout. They certainly like to add all sorts of crazy stuff... Read more →