DO NOT USE THEIR RANCH DRESSING.

“hmmm you’ve got some rusty rotors RIGHT BEHIND YOUR BRAKE-DUST COVERED BIGASS RIMS...”

Errr ahh Widmer, Kona and Redhook are all owned and run by CBA, which is indeed partly owned by AB-INBEV (or whatever they’re called now).
However, it was made very clear by Widmer (CBA) and AB that AB would not get involved in operations in any way except marketing and distribution. There was a large investment in…

They’re starting to weed out the crappy stuff and get more in-tune with sweet tropical fruit stuff now. A lot of the early stuff was stonefruit-bitter because they were using older hop varietals. Once these newer strains started showing up things started moving to sweet and juicy, mostly. Personally, I look for hop…

early fall is hop harvest season. So yeah, an october canning could be drastically more ‘live’ than an october canning, simply from the fresher nature of the hops, and the brewer wuld absolutely know.
If you’ve never had the chance to compare a real ‘fresh hop’ version of a beer with it’s regular version, you probably…

HEY! GOLDEN NUGGET USED TO BE A CLEAR IPA!
You’d have a hard time pinpointing when, exactly, they changed that recipe to fuck it all up. I used to care when I lived about an hour away, but then they started banning people on twitter and basically acting like complete assholes because they got big. It was right about…

errrr aaah sorry sparky but that just isn’t true. The water that comes off Bull Run here in portland is almost natural, they use almost no chemicals in the treatment process at all, it’s nearly pure snowmelt off Mt. Hood.

THIS! I forgot about this small detail. It’s a common problem among smaller brewers, for sure, but since they typically brew these batches in quick succession using the same stock/ingredients and general environmental conditions, it’s not a huge factor.

Since both of those beer require a significant amount of ‘other’ ingredients I wouldn’t really hold this up as a great example here, since the brewing process is mostly unchanged - they just add more pumpkin jizz every year because it got popular (seriously, last year you couldn’t go anywhere without pumpkin beer on…

It’s old news, but once upon a time Budweiser and Miller didn’t use rice to add free sugars to the brew. Rice was and still is much cheaper and easier to handle than malted barley, so basically every time over the last 150 years or so grain became expensive, the breweries moved to adjuncts.
Recent ads about HF corn…

The big boys are known to do this in order to keep some consistency, but their brewing processes are so fine-tuned they don’t generally need to do this any more. Aside from the storage capacity required to do this in a larger scale - 100,000 gallon tanks, etc - the lite and pale beers are typically pretty stable. They…

Here in Portland it’s generally assumed that breweries change recipies pretty often, given the batch sizes and availability of ingredients...but you’ll get a “FRESH HOP”, “WET HOP’ or “DRY HOP” version, depending on the season and whatnot.

These days most people have forgotten what in-car stereos were like until the late 90's and modern generations of the luxo-barge-as-family-sedan. A branded head unit with maybe a tape deck and 15-watt rated output to 2 speakers, little paper-cone 6" or 8", maybe a 2-way pico/tweeter on the high-end stuff. There were…

Student loan debt is literally crushing the dreams of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Instead of buying material goods and homes, we’re ruined financially before we can even pretend to join the actual working economy.
My folks worked multiple jobs just to cover the bills and never got out from under credit card…

Portland (aka Beervana) has around 100 working breweries on any given weekday. Most of them have ten or more beers across styles.

“In this day and age, it takes a little bit of courage to tell a police officer standing at their door... ‘No, we don’t want to let you talk to our daughter because we don’t get the right feeling about this,’” she said.

This is more than 5x what I recently paid for an Excursion (NOT compensating). 400 some-ish HP and torques. It’s plenty big enough to be able to drive it like a total asshole but small enough to park.. My 40 gallon tank takes two swipes of the ol’ visa from near empty and depending on the station maybe 15 minutes -…

Jared’s been tight as a drum since the campaigns.

Where do you think all those diamonds come from? Jared’s ass carbon, that’s where. Good to know he’ll have a source of income in prison.

Is it just me, or does it seem like that much spark action would be baaaad mkay? Even tucked up inside the rims I'd worry about my billion dollar car catching on fire after a couple WOT runs down the dragstrip.

Pretty sure they’re bigger than the calipers on my Excursion, which weighs a metric fuckton.