What’s Up With Casey?

Grant says he should have a 1 month leash, Dave says he should be moved to lead off. Casey McGehee, the Giants’ big off-season acquisition, has struggled thus far: not hitting well, slow on the bases, questionable defense, and soooo many double plays. Let’s see how bad it has been so far this season by…

Great Balance Brewing

The craft beer boom began with Sierra Nevada almost 35 years ago in Chico, California. That’s largely been the extent of the brewery scene in our city ever since. By comparison Bend Oregon has 17 breweries, with a smaller population than Chico. Portland has a much larger population than Bend, but they also have about…

2015 Hot Starts

We’re almost 10% into the 2015 MLB baseball season, so just for funsies lets look at the stat leaders and extrapolate their season if they were to miraculously maintain their hot start through the entire season. “Hot start” might not be quite right for some of these stats like HBP, and HRs Allowed.  Stat  2015…

Beer Label of the Month: La Sirène

La Sirène Brewing is pretty unique with a focus on classic Belgian and French Farmhouse styles ales, based in Melbourne Australia. When I think of Australian beer I foolishly think Foster’s, not “small batches of unfiltered and unpasteurised beer, retaining the greatest amount of flavour and character…our bottled beers are naturally conditioned by refermentation and…

Noble Brewer

If you were to take parts of Sierra Nevada Beer Camp, KitLab, a beer of the month club, and a contract brewery you would have something close to Noble Brewer. Sprinkle in a dash of Kickstarter, a pint of homebrewing competition, a pinch of social networking and you might get even closer. We are the…