I see this point for sure, but it seems like it all comes down to “occasions.” At a baseball game or on a summer fishing trip, yeah, I want to drink four or five beers over the course of the day. Light beers in that case taste refreshing and cold. At home watching a movie on a Friday night, I’m more likely to drink…

lots of butter, low heat, enough but not *too* much cheese -- and patience. if the heat is too high the outside will get brown without the cheese getting melted. you can also cover it for a minute to help the cheese melt, but you don’t want the bread to steam.

Last year my wife surprised me with a day trip to Austin for my birthday. You probably could have hear my eyes rolling when we got in the back of a long line at Franklin’s. Two hours later and I understood what all the fuss was. Best brisket I’ve ever had. (told her I’d do it again in a heartbeat)

As someone who works in the industry, the backlash on the street level in outside markets is intense. I have gained several new draft accounts from folks pulling Founders off their draft lines and I am based in the Southeast. The only thing I could compare it to what happened with Melvin on the west coast, but that…

Structural racism?

Austin has such great lager breweries—a town would be lucky just to have either Live Oak or ABGB! You’re spoiled.

Barry Sanders and Walter Payton were my two.

What drives me bonkers is that the same people yelling about not judging Joker before seeing it are the same folks I’m certain judged Captain Marvel, Black Panther, and Ghostbusters (2016) before those films were released.

“Your product makes light of the suffering our people endured at the hands of the government.” Pretty reasonable take, honestly.

Houston is a surprisingly pretty city, with a cool arts center, a robust tech background, extremely fun bars, and a burgeoning food scene with one of the greatest items I’ve ever eaten in my entire life.

There seems to be a bit of variation from batch to batch, which isn’t what you’d expect from a major brewer. Sometimes it’s very smooth and caramel forward, and sometimes it tastes like the bottom of a coffee pot.

After having heard ravings about Shiner Bock for years, when it did finally reach the PNW, I figured I should try it.

A little more color on the subject. Traditionally, especially at breweries but also at home and in the whole gasthaus thing, Kellerbier and Zwickelbier (which are nearly identical). Are the local brew pulled from the fermentor after primary fermentation is finished. But before the long conditioning is complete. So…

Drew’s Bob Mould fetish makes him bulletproof, taste-wise.

I’ll give you a hint, it’s none of the white men! Funny how that works. 

Finding something that somebody else paid for and then claiming it is free is one of the major tenets of libertarianism.

Sam Adams’ Boston Lager is an absolute godsend in places with really basic beer selections: I’m talking airport bars, AMC Movie Theater Bars, Fast-Casual restaurants like Nando’s or Blaze Pizza, etc.

Onion Rings. (Beer Battered)

Also Acceptable: Beer

That’s the one I’ve got!

That was the first cover in a series of covers—like from issue #18 to around #39—where Bill Sienkiewicz’s gorgeous art really lent itself to a ready-made sense of foreboding for me when I first encountered them when I was a kid. So when I heard that they were making a New Mutants horror film, I was like, “Oh that’s…