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Tap Beer(s) of the Week: Guinness Dublin Porter, West Indies Porter

Tom Bedell

[March 14, 2016]–Suggesting the ubiquitous Guinness Stout for St. Patrick’s Day is the beery equivalent of coals to Newcastle. But... Read more »

Tap Beer(s) of the Week: 3 Monts Grande Reserve Amber and Gavroche

Tom Bedell

[March 7, 2016]–La Brasserie de St-Sylvestre in French Flanders makes a Biére de Noel I’ll have to try one holiday... Read more »

Surprised To Learn About Panama…

Bob Fagan

Panama City features an artistic blending of the new and old. Traveling for me always brings new and surprising revelations... Read more »

Avila Beach – Central California Coast Hidden Gem

Bob Fagan

Little Avila Beach on California’s Central Coast qualifies as one of my very favorite beach towns anywhere. Choosing a favorite... Read more »

Your Brain On Sports: It’s Insane

Tom Harack

As the cheeky title hints, This Is Your Brain On Sports is a mirthful look at our goofy but mostly... Read more »

Slow Play’s Killin’ the Game

Ed Travis

Slow play is killing the game. Golf takes too long and there’s no doubt the five hour round is pushing... Read more »

The Grain Looks at The Future of Golf

  Whither golf? Precisely the question we answer in a number of ways in the season-opening issue of The Grain,... Read more »

It’s Prime Time In Palm Springs

Jay Stuller

In the initial weeks of 2016 the good people of the Pacific Northwest are once again depressed by relentless precipitation... Read more »

Golf Skate Caddy

Ed Travis

The Golf Skate Caddy is a practical single rider golf cart that makes sense even for the less nimble and... Read more »

12 Beers of Christmas 2015 Reprise

Tom Bedell

Happy New Year! A year of new and old drinking adventures awaits us, and in the immediate rear-view mirror my... Read more »

Diegeling-Anchored Putting into the Hall of Fame

Ed Travis

The first of January marks implementation of the modification to the Rules of Golf banning anchored putting strokes but though... Read more »