Commentist Beer Barrel: Barrels and Barrels of Barrels

makeitsnowondem - December 12, 2015

Beer, as most of you know, is really good. Another thing that many of you also know is that liquor is also good. But as with many pairs of things that are good individually (ice cream and hot sauce! sex and skiing!), combining the two can be dicey. Maybe you pour

Commentist Beer Barrel: Winter Is Yummy

Commentist Beer Barrel

makeitsnowondem - November 28, 2015

Winter is the best season for drinking, as everyone knows. In the winter, whether you favor wine, spirits, or beer, you can drink any of the things you normally like to drink, which by default makes it no worse than any other season. But! On top of that, you'll spend

Commentist Beer Barrel: Dogfish Did It

makeitsnowondem - November 21, 2015

Yesterday, I walked into a bar, sat down, and ordered a beer seasoned with chocolate, basil, and lobster. It's important to me that I record this event so that if either I or the American craft beer industry as a whole are ever charged with a serious crime, we will each

Commentist Beer Barrel: Iced, Bro

DFOing Good

makeitsnowondem - November 15, 2015November 15, 2015

For the first week of the year here in Austin, it's cool enough that lady snow and I don't have to worry about turning on the air conditioning, which is one of my favorite things to happen every year. It'll be at least a couple more weeks before I have

Kommenter Beer Barrel: It’s Chili Outside

Kommenter Beer Barrel

makeitsnowondem - November 1, 2015

I won't take up too much of your time today, folks. I know we've all got football to watch. I've loved spicy food for a long time. I don't believe that this is something that makes me special or unique, but it is true. I don't really even know a lot about

The Texan Football Experiment

makeitsnowondem - October 31, 2015October 31, 2015

In 2013, researchers at the University of Houston exposed five people to an entire season of some of the worst football of all time. Promising potential subjects the opportunity to watch every minute of an all-time great season by a generational defensive football talent, rent-free and supplied with endless barbecue,

Kommenter Beer Table: America’s Ale

makeitsnowondem - October 17, 2015October 17, 2015

I think the first time I had a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, I was in Wrigleyville. That was, anyway, the first time I had more than one Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I wasn't new to good beer at the time; I was just back from a semester in Europe and keen

Kommenter Beer Barrel: A Flying F-ck At The Moon

OH WE GON DRANK

makeitsnowondem - October 10, 2015

It's funny, when you think about it: German brewing culture, in some form or other, has dominated the mainstream American beer landscape for, what, a century or so? German immigrants brought lager to America in the 1830s and 40s, and by 1857, lager beers were outselling the previously dominant English-derived

Kommenter Beer Barrel: Animal Farmhouse

OH WE GON DRANK

makeitsnowondem - October 3, 2015

Most experts agree that Battlecat, our majestic brown tabby, is the most ferocious cat in the whole wide world. Like the saison, the style of beer I'll be haranguing you all about today, she was born in a barn and she's in my refrigerator a lot. She's also got something in

2015 NFL Team Preview: Toronto Blue Jays

Team Previews

makeitsnowondem - September 10, 2015September 10, 2015

Lost in the chatter over deflated balls and preseason injuries this year has been, I think, one of the most fascinating stories of the NFL offseason: The way the Toronto Blue Jays have quietly built a team destined to soar or spectacularly implode. For all the talk about how Chip Kelly's unorthodox

Kommenter Beer Barrel: Calling All Hops

Kommenter Beer Barrel

makeitsnowondem - September 5, 2015

I remember very clearly, seven years or so ago, a time when the cutting edge of IPA brewing methods seemed to involve cramming as many hop cones as you could into a boiler of wort. Later, breweries would become bored with merely filling the boilers to overflowing with hops, and started cramming the hop