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 →

Our ongoing series on the essential craft beers that everyone ought to know.    There’s been a trend afoot in the last few years of craft breweries producing session IPAs. Although the style is an old one (original English IPAs brewed in the 19th century were basically today’s session IPAs), the style has definitely made a... Read more →

More is more. Wait. Isn’t less more? More drum ‘n’ bass and less bass and drum solos, more or less? Oh. The topic is barrel-aged imperial stouts, not double live albums from prog-rock dinosaurs in the mid-70s, doofus. Fine. What happens when barrel-aged imperial stouts, by definition “more is more” already, have extra... Read more →