Tap Beer of the Week: Allagash Tripel
[Sept. 6, 2017]–It was the casual parenthetical thought about Allagash Dubbel that jumped out at me. I was looking over… Read more »
Golf
Going With the Flow
Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott have been coaching some of the professional game’s top players, and rank amateurs, for decades… Read more »
Tap Beer(s) of the Week: Reissdorf Kölsch vs. von Trapp Kölsch Style
[Aug. 2, 2017]–What with von Trapp Brewing making a return trip Tap Takeover to Wildwood Barbeque on Thursday, August 3,… Read more »
Hopeless But Optimistic: Douglas Wissing on Afghanistan
I was about halfway though Hopeless But Optimistic: Journeying through America’s Endless War in Afghanistan ($30, Indiana University Press)—admittedly a… Read more »
Taking On Fantasy Island: TPC Sawgrass and the Island Green
[Some of the numbers are a little dated in this 2017 piece, but the jitters one feels in playing the… Read more »
Can You Name the Five Amateurs Who Won the U.S. Open?
[This post has been updated for the 2022 U.S. Open, here.] The cut line was at +1 when the day… Read more »
Brattleboro Brewers Festival 2017
All the sounds of hammering from the copious ark-building that had been going on in southern Vermont abruptly ceased on… Read more »
TAP Beer of the Week: Troëg’s Crimson Pistil Hibiscus IPA
[June 6, 2016]–Time to trot out another Troëg’s offering, last seen here with one of the Scratch Series beers, #235,… Read more »
Arnie, and Other Life Stories
[May 26, 2017]–The 2017 Arnold Palmer Invitational ended in an exciting and sweetly sentimental fashion. The nostalgic mood surrounding the… Read more »
“Tommy’s Honour” Goes Far and Sure
[May 22, 2017]–Add “Tommy’s Honour” to that minuscule cinematic niche—golf movies that aren’t goofy comedies. Based on Kevin Cook’s book… Read more »
