Tap Beer of the Week: Mankato Brewery Mad Butcher IPA
[March 27, 2017]–Now here was a good beer to prove—if I needed any proof—that life is indeed a long, strange… Read more »
Golf
Why Isn’t Gil Hodges in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
[Updated Dec.6, 2021]–I guess I can retire this piece now, as it appears to have done its work! Gil Hodges made… Read more »
Wodehouse on Golf and Other Tales
It may be a function of growing older, or simply wading into the wrong streams of literature, that I find… Read more »
Tap Beer of the Week: Allagash Hoppy Table Beer
[Feb. 9, 2017]–Granted, with close to eight inches of fresh snow dumped on us today in southern Vermont, it might… Read more »
Eight Years On
[Jan. 16, 2017]–On this day of observing Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, something jiggled my memory, and I went into… Read more »
12 Beers of Christmas 2016 Reprise
[Jan. 6, 2017]–For those not up on their religion, the actual 12 Days of Christmas begin on Christmas Day and… Read more »
12 Beers of Christmas 2016 – 12: Scaldis Noël Premium
I had Scaldis Noël on my “likely” list before the Paste Magazine article appeared online on Dec. 14, with its… Read more »
12 Beers of Christmas 2016 – 11: Kerstmutske Christmas Nightcap
“Slaapmutske” is Flemish for “Sleeping Cap” or, in our vernacular, nightcap, and Dany de Smet and his wife, Marleen Vercaigne… Read more »
12 Beers of Christmas 2016 – 10: Allagash Hibernal Fluxus
Fluxus the condition is what the house is going to be in real soon when the grandkids arrive this evening…. Read more »
12 Beers of Christmas 2016 – 9: Haandbryggeriet Nissefar
The selection process for the 12 Beers of Christmas is, to my mind, ingeniously haphazard, and largely dependent on what’s… Read more »
