It isn’t often I have the opportunity to review a novel. Sadly, there are just too few works of fiction whose main plot points involve beer. More’s the pity. But along comes novelist Tom Robbins...

21st Amendment brewer and co-owner Shaun O’Sullivan turns 46 today. Shaun is one my favorite people in the industry. He’s just so “really, really okay” (an inside joke) and so much fun to needle...

I stumbled upon this list of The 10 Oldest Bars in the United States on the blog for SloshSpot, an online portal for nightclubbing. Their original list: Jean Lafittes Blacksmith Shop; New Orleans, LA (1775) Bell In Hand; Boston, MA (1795) McSorley's ...

This is now our 17th Session, and the topic is another thoughtful one, albeit a little rebellious. Our host, Rob DeNunzio, from Pfifft, titled the Session theme Going Against the...

A colleague forwarded me this press release (thanks, Tom) correctly concluding it was ripe for blog fodder. It comes from an unusual source, it's a press release from the Avery Dennison Graphics & Reflective Products Division.

I stumbled on this very cool beer bottle cap game. It’s essentially one of those simple memory matching games but uses crowns and flash technology to create a fun little game. You start out with 36 upside down crowns, after showing you them right-side...

Today’s beer ad is from Germany. I saw an original of it framed at the Franconian Brewery Museum in Bamberg when I was there a couple of years ago. Again, I can’t be sure which, if any, brewery it’s advertising for. The text reads “Durst wird durch...

Today is Rob Widmer’s 53rd birthday. Rob is, of course, one of the bros in Widmer Brothers. He and his brother Kurt helped found the Oregon Brewers Festival, created the style American Hefeweizen and are one of the few small brewers that have managed...

I confess that I’m not much of a baseball fan. When I was a kid I rooted for the Baltimore Orioles and Brooks Robinson was my favorite player. But since heading west, as a young man, I’ve paid little attention to Major League Baseball. I used to attend...

It’s been several months since I’ve done a Top 10 list, primarily because it’s been too hard to keep up with them weekly. So I think I’ll try once a month instead. I’ve been collecting old beer slogans for a project (more on that later) and so I...