I expanded my world a lot in 2010. After starting this blog, I went back to my dormant Twitter account, and really started trying to connect with people as passionate about beer, wine & food as I am; it wasn’t hard. I barely had to swing a cat and I found hundreds of people who felt like I did! Twitter [...]

I love Lagunitas’ beers. One of my most memorable craft beer epiphanies was tasting Hop Stoopid for the first time and being one of only two people at the tasting who liked it. Actually “liked” is not a good way to describe it; I did cartwheels over it, angels chorused and I think I almost cried. It was the moment I [...]

A couple of months ago I competed in round 2 of the Iron Brewer homebrew competition; this seemed to garner my homebrew some more interest than they normally gather. People I follow on Twitter approached me for homebrew trades because they wanted to taste it; really?! That’s cool Barry (@BitzyBrew on Twitter) got in touch to trade some of his homebrew [...]

I’m going to start out by being perfectly honest. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the Funky Buddha almost from the day it opened 4 years ago. I always loved the fact that it was somewhere I could get a great beer, but the hookah smoking crowd has never really been my cup of tea. That all changed one Saturday [...]

I was very sad not to be able to make it to the Great American Beer Festival this year, having already committed my measly 2 weeks of vacation elsewhere. So, for a week I lived vicariously through my beer nerd-filled Twitter & Facebook feeds. Saturday’s big award ceremony was thankfully streamed live online by the awesome guys at BeerTapTV, and thanks [...]

I recently spent a week in North Western Massachussets, and got to drink a boat load of delicious beer. I have had reviews of them all drafted out since we got home three weeks ago, but life got in the way! Here’s the first one, New Holland’s Dragon’s Milk – American Strong Ale: Pours a very dark brown/black into the [...]

I recently completed my first cross-country homebrew trade, with Brandon who writes the Thirsty Zymurgist blog. I was pretty nervous to send my brews cross country to Oregon to be tried by someone I’d never met before, but I figured it was good practice for the Iron Brewer tasting coming up next week; what the heck! Brandon sent me three [...]

Whilst I’m on vacation in the rolling green hills of western MA, some wonderful people have offered to write some guest posts for me. Today my friend Tom (not a beer geek), who writes the fantastically informative book review blog Completely Booked, chronicles a trip to Total Wine and the subsequent beer tasting with his girlfriend Vicki. To this uninitiated [...]

My friend Amie (@CatLadyBeer on twitter) stopped by last weekend to say hi and try out a couple of our brews on the way home to Gainesville, and to drop off the score she picked up for us in NoFL on the way down (including a Harpoon 100 Barrel Series ESB I plan on cracking open tonight!!). She also very [...]

What a treat! My “Liquor correspondent” Brent joins us this A.M. for a write up on one of Rogue Brewery’s liquor offerings If you missed his review over on his blog of Rogue’s Whiskey, you can catch up on it here!______________________________________________________________ Pink Champagne? White Zin? No no no, this is something special, something from the west. Wild, exciting, a "Rogue" [...]

This is going to be a bit of a cheat review – simply because as you can see above, I broke the craft beer drinker’s cardinal rule of pouring into a glass. Frankly, when it is still 85 degrees at 8.30pm, I reserve the right every now and then to use a coozi; no glass. So there. Brent and I [...]

  (Photo via http://www.cornercafeandbrewery.com) It was hot yesterday. Goddamnit hot. Well, it is July in SoFL and what else should I expect? Nothing, that’s what. But, you know what I can do about it? I can drink beer; it makes it hurt less. As you can see in this picture, I’m less than impressed by the heat, and am soooooo [...]

It seems that over the past year since I went back to school to get a degree in Urban Planning, that my minor has developed into something to do with American government. It started out that I took an Intro to American Government Class in my 2nd semester, simply because in reading the syllabus it looked like it would give [...]

As I think I’ve mentioned before, when it comes to beer, I am a total label whore – a sucker for a good design idea. Well, I’m also quite fond of interesting brewery names – Green Flash seems very Marvel Comics-esque to me, and I do love me a good superhero! Can’t wait to see the Green Hornet when it [...]

I finally got myself over to Relish Burger in Northwood, and boy I’m glad I did! Relish is the concept of local husband and wife team Desiree and Daniel Tobin; a fast-food meets gourmet, cornucopia of burger-licious delights! Between the meat, cheese and relish choices, there are more than 1000 different combinations to choose from! Some of the tasty sounding [...]