Green Breweries and Wineries

Americans consume 9.4 billion gallons of alcoholic beverages a year: 87 percent beer, 8 percent wine, and the rest spirits. The environmental impact of producing, packaging, and selling all those beverages could make an environmentalist reach for a drink. Breweries and wineries consume large quantities of water, raw materials, and other natural resources. But there’s…

Beer Style Groupings for Newbies

BeerGraphs recently posted about their difficulties with overlapping beer styles, especially as it pertains to their ranking system. They discussed the idea of grouping styles into “mega styles” to deal with the overlap, and possibly make their rankings more useful. With only a basic understanding of their ranking system and its goals I can’t really…

Top 10 Beer Selfies

It’s been five months since I created the @beerselfie Instagram account. There have been almost 1500 beer selfies reposted in that time. I thought I would take a look back and find the ten beer selfies with the most Likes: A photo posted by Beer Selfie (@beerselfie) on Sep 21, 2014 at 11:00pm PDT A…

Valentine’s Day Chocolate and Beer Pairing

One of the great things about beer and food pairings is that you just never know what you’re gonna get. Or, wait, that’s a box of chocolates, isn’t it. Either way, food pairings often times throw me for a loop. This one is no exception, as nearly all the beers I tried with these chocolates…

Pillow Madness

There are lots of review sites online. The ones I’ve come to trust for consumer electronics and household items are Wirecutter and Sweethome respectively. I like that they focus on the best product for every category instead of wasting everyone’s time with a giant spreadsheet of feature comparisons between every product out there. I don’t…

Beer Label of the Month: Sierra Nevada Hoptimum

Sierra Nevada‘s newest beer label recently made news because of a skirmish with Lagunitas, but I’m not here to talk about that label today. Instead lets take a look at a Sierra Nevada label that has been around for years. Created by artist Nate Duval, the Hoptimum label is one my favorite beer labels ever.…

Great Baby Product: Otoscope

When I previously posted about great baby products I forgot a good one: HARD CASE-Third Generation Dr Mom Slimline Stainless LED Pocket Otoscope + Lighted Ear Wax CURETTES now includes True View Full Spectrum LED and Pocket Clip. Bear with me here. The first time you bring your kid to the pediatrician because they have…