On a recent rainy weekend in LA, I decided to take a trip to beyond the orange curtain, to a place known more for Disneyland and mini-mansions than craft beer. But this trek would be no ordinary trek to the OC, for today I was to venture to the Bruery Provisions to pick up my […]
Yesterday, I wrote about the levels of craft beer consumerism. The premise was essentially that everyone who walks into a bottle shop looking for beer can be put into a few categories based on how far along they are in their transition to becoming a full-fledged alehead.* *i.e. insufferable beer snob One characteristic of those […]
A few months back, Brother Barley reflected on these pages about how he has evolved as an alehead. It’s a piece that I reread the other day, because: 1. I liked it. I thought it was well-written.* 2. When I have idle time, I am prone to being the laziest person on the planet. Reading […]
It is an absolutely gorgeous day in the Willamette Valley today, and as such I decided to have a little grill session with a few friends on my tiny little deck. Being in need of supplies, I wandered over to my friendly neighborhood grocery store for some ground beef and, more importantly, an appropriate beer […]
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