Commentist Beer Barrel

Commentist Beer Barrel: Breakfast of Champions

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You can probably use your fingers to count the genuinely distinctive beer styles invented here in the United States, even if you're Jim Abbott. American brewers have shown a terrific facility for re-invention, for better (American IPAs!) and worse (the "great pilsner taste" of Miller Lite!). New ideas are fewer and farther

Commentist Beer Barrel: Extreme Beer Aging

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Before I get started, I want to thank Son of Spam, Brett Favre's Colonoscopy, and Electric Mayhem for contributing to Beer Barrel in my absence. Credit for the feature's increased quality during that time is due entirely to them. Credit for the scheduling fuck-ups that caused us to have three

Commentist Beer Barrel: Homebrew Edition

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Ahoy-hoy, fellow beer coneseu    connisor   enthusiasts! Make it Snow is out again this week, presumably hiding from (or fleecing) the locust-like hordes of street musicians descending upon Austin. Keep playing that utterly-cliche-acoustic-guitar-ballad, young Rian; you're sure to land a record contract some day! Brettfavrescolonoscopy, in turn, provided perhaps the most Zen

Commentist Beer Barrel: Nobody Likes a Dry Barrel

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Coming on the heels of SonOfSpam doing a great job filling in for our resident Cicerone, make it snow, you were probably all looking forward to getting back to your regularly scheduled programming. Unfortunately, make it snow is locked in the trunk of my car unavailable to share another review

Commentist Beer Barrel: Substitute Teachers Are The Worst

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Got a call from my dear friend Make It Snow (real first name: Rudiger) asking me to fill in on the Beer Barrel post while he recovers from testicular enhancement surgery, so of course I agreed. Anything for one of my brothers-in-feeling-ashamed-of-our-genitalia, as we say here in America. But SonOfSpam,

Commentist Beer Barrel: I’ve Had A Few Budweisers

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That's the season, then. Just about a week ago, with either relief or chagrin, we all watched one of the NFL's most accomplished quarterbacks ride off into the sunset with a world championship and the short and sweet declaration, "I'm going to Disneyworld!" Wait. Peyton. Wait. You pronounced "Disneyworld" wrong. Like, really, really wrong. Peyton.

Commentist Beer Barrel: Bottle Royale

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I've made my peace with the very strong possibility of another Broncos Super Bowl loss, or at least I'm going to keep insisting I have. I love my team, but as I see it, a Panthers championship would be pretty okay. Cam's more fun than any player has a right to

Commentist Beer Barrel: The Spoils of Victory

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It's been a pretty good football season for me. I got to watch my Broncos play the sort of defense that every football fan gets frustrated at his team for not playing. I got to watch them bring the world another Patriots Schadenfreude Day. And next weekend, there's a solid chance

Commentist Beer Barrel: Yes We Can

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Austin is a great, great place to be a beer nerd, with roughly two dozen breweries and a wide variety of beer from all across the country on the shelves. When I first moved back to Austin eight years ago, though, the landscape looked very different. Preposterous licensing fees and nonsensical

Commentist Beer Barrel: Happy Birthday To Me

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Good evening, everyone. I'm afraid this Beer Barrel will be even more self-indulgent than usual, and no, I've never engaged in any self-deception about just how high that bar is. You see, yesterday was my thirtieth birthday, and I decided my gift to myself would be to drink whatever the