Joe can be sort of a hoarder. When it comes to magazines (need a Bon Appetit from 2007? Come on over.), brewpub t-shirts (how else will we remember that we’ve been there?), and special beers (honey, I bought these for you because you like this kind. Uh-huh.), there is no such thing as too much [...]

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Ah, Beer Week. Joe and I agree that this was our best Beer Week experience ever, possibly because we’ve learned how to do it properly–plan ahead, mix up the type of events you go to, take a day off work (why not?), and once you get there, chill. Beer might run out. The lines will [...]

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Beautiful day in San Francisco at Public house for Beerunch

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Joining a wine club always seems like a great idea, especially after you’ve had a few free pours in the tasting room. Over the years we’ve joined different ones and always dropped them within the year, overwhelmed with a backlog of pretty-good bottles.

Except Medlock Ames. We joined almost five years ago, back when the club [...]

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Had a sip of cognac last night at 83 Proof from a bottle from the Forgotten Cask program. They custom blend with various people and companies a bunch of very old small lots of cognac.  You might be drinking a tiny bit of a 1920’s cognac!  The taste I had was killer – rich, complex, [...]

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