Commentist Beer Barrel: Extra Special

Commentist Beer Barrel

makeitsnowondem - February 18, 2017

I can remember where and when I first had pretty much all of my favorite beers, but when it comes to one of my very earliest favorites, Fuller's ESB, I always draw a blank. I can't remember where, or when, or even whether I had it from a bottle or keg

Commentist Beer Barrel: Let’s Have A Lager!

Commentist Beer Barrel

makeitsnowondem - February 4, 2017February 4, 2017

Happy Super Bowl Saturday! My sympathies to the vast majority of you whose team won't be playing tomorrow, but the consolation match is, I think, a pretty exciting matchup with some real offensive firepower on both sides, and you don't get that every year. I, for one, tend to drink a

Oscars 2017: I’m Sorry, I Don’t Know Anything About La La Land

makeitsnowondem - January 29, 2017January 29, 2017

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I told myself I was going to try to keep my Oscar posts a little shorter this year. So far, well... Here are your 2017 Academy Award nominees! BEST PICTURE Arrival Fences Hacksaw Ridge Hell or High Water Hidden Figures La La Land Lion Manchester by the Sea Moonlight I'm behind on my top-of-ticket viewing so far this year, having seen

Commentist Beer Barrel: The Golden Goblets

makeitsnowondem - January 23, 2017January 23, 2017

I'll be honest about this: I love awards, and awards shows, and basically anything where various things are declared "the best." A big part of this is that I also love to declare things "the best," and to argue when other people declare the wrong things "the best." I'm excited

Updates

makeitsnowondem - January 18, 2017

Massachusetts Passes Law Banning Ben Roethlisberger From Public Restrooms

Commentist Beer Barrel: You Deserve a Cookie

makeitsnowondem - January 5, 2017January 5, 2017

That's right! You! Have a damn cookie. It's been five days since New Year's Day, which I think is long enough that I can now safely say it's 2017. It wasn't easy, but you made it. Beer helped, probably, but in the end, the credit belongs to you. Thanks to

Commentist Beer Barrel: Every Puppy Has Its Day

Commentist Beer Barrel

makeitsnowondem - December 18, 2016

Hello, Commentists! Sorry for my absence these past two weeks, but I was out wandering the woods with Hillary Clinton last week and couldn't find a signal. Did you know she wrestled a grizzly bear out there? Mainstream media won't talk about it. I don't know what they've got against her. Losing can

Commentist Beer Barrel: Welcome To Your Local Brewery

makeitsnowondem - November 27, 2016

Even in a pretty miserable year—and let's not kid ourselves: this has been, by any measure, a pretty miserable year on the global scale—I've got a lot to be thankful for. Most of all, of course, there's my beautiful fiancée lady snow, to whom I became formally engaged this past

Commentist Beer Barrel and Open Thread: Draught House Anniversary Party In Review

makeitsnowondem - November 5, 2016November 5, 2016

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Come on in, folks. Have a seat at the bar. We're talking beer again today, but we're also talking anything else you want to talk about. We've got a couple of top-25 matchups tonight, with #10 Nebraska at #6 Ohio State and #1 Alabama probably steamrolling the absolute shit out

Commentist Beer Barrel: Damn Hippies

makeitsnowondem - October 29, 2016

Austin's best annual beer event is happening again today. The Draught House Anniversary Party is the kind of shindig that only a decades-old pub and brewery, with a decades-old pub and brewery's connections, can throw. Every year they roll out a stacked beer list. Everything's a special release or something aged

Commentist Beer Barrel: Scotchy Scotch Scotch

makeitsnowondem - October 21, 2016

The worst thing about this time of year, to me—at least in non-election years, Jesus Christ am I sick of that shit—is waiting for Sierra Nevada Brewing Company to release its famous winter fresh hop IPA, Celebration. The ongoing seasonal creep in beer releases means now's about the time the winter

Commentist Beer Barrel: One Mint Julep

Commentist Beer Barrel

makeitsnowondem - October 19, 2016

I was a little sick last week, so both the Beer Barrel and my actual drinking were somewhat abbreviated, and this review is going up very, very late. But better late than never, right? Right? If you'd prefer never, please don't tell me. Let's talk about beer instead. Avery Brewing in Boulder,