Posted in Beer on Mar 29th, 2009
(Originally posted as a guest article on Hop Talk) Within the wine, beer and spirits world, passions run deep. And so do the divisions. Whether it is beer vs. wine, red vs. white, or vodka vs. bourbon, the warring camps of devotees are steadfast and thirsty for the other’s blood. Whether it is double- vs. […]
Posted in Wine on Mar 24th, 2009
Posted in Beer, NYC Events on Mar 22nd, 2009
There are innumerable similarities between what I drank yesterday and what the great man in tights drank. And so, in some bizarre, cosmic twist, time repeated itself in the beer world. I found myself (for the third time) at the Manhattan Cask Ale Festival at Chelsea Brewing Co with the Hudson river lapping at the […]
If you want to get a drink at a bar in Utah, you are required by law to fill out a membership application, and pay a fee for the right to enter the “private club”. By making it more difficult to walk through the door, the state believes they are preventing under-age and casual drinking. […]
Posted in NYC Events, Wine on Mar 8th, 2009
“Terroir speaks in a very still, small voice. It is easy not to hear it above the stentorian tones of 100% new oak, 15% alcohol and the extreme tannic extraction that we find in modern wines. We winemakers need to look long and hard in the mirror” It pays to be curious, to take risks, […]
