I was out on a date to Target with the Mrs. tonight. When you have kids, trips to Target without them qualify as date nights. Sad but true. We were at the new Super Target that opened recently near our house. If you are counting, that makes two Super Walmarts, one Super Target, one regular […]

Good.

What do you do in Des Moines International Airport when you have to check in two hours before your flight and it only takes 10 minutes to get your boarding pass and make it through security?  You hit the Capital City Brew Pub, serving a wide assortment of local microbrews. Err, except they were out […]

Ok, so I don’t have my handy-dandy digital camera right at my fingertips just now for a cool pic of this bad boy.  Been dropping in on some decent waves off Waikiki all day.  Camera is not sand proof nor water proof.  But, I gotta tell ya, after a hard day surfing your ass off, a tall glass […]

I hope this isn’t an inappropriate post, but I wanted to write up a lunch trip today to Huske Hardware in Fayetteville, NC. This was absolutely the worst experience I’ve ever had in a brewpub. First, they only carry four styles of beer: an IPA, some other kind of ale, a “red” beer, […]

I did this quiz with Don in mind.

You Are Guinness

You know beer well, and you’ll only drink the best beers in the world.Watered down beers disgust you, as do the people who drink them.When you drink, you tend to become a bit of a know it all - especially about subjects you don’t know well.
But […]

I learned a lot from this book. The history of beer in the US really starts in the 1800s, not in colonial times. German immigrants brought the brewing skills with them, and set up biergartens wherever they settled, most famously in Milwaukee. Germans also saved the US from the first round of prohibition just before […]

Given the beer perfectness represented by Troegs Nugget Nectar I had high hopes for this beer. I wasn’t disappointed, but I wasn’t wowed either. It pours a light and hazy gold color, exactly what you would expect from a wheat beer. The nose presents a pungent banana and clove aroma, however the start […]

Well, it’s officially summer, now that I’ve busted out the ol’ Popeil Pocket Fisherman and started planting myself at various bridges around Capitol City here.  I tried to decide what to toss in the cooler, and figured that I should take along a brew that would be quite tasty with the type of gamefish I […]

We do our recycling next to the local grocery store, though not the store we usually do our grocery shopping at. As today was recycling day and grab a couple of things day, I stopped in at that store rather than my usual.
That directly effected my beer purchase which turned out to be Moe’s […]

Ok, so like my wife went to this Ivy League University (Princeton), and every year they throw this HUGE reunions bash which pulls in like $35 million in underdirected annual giving from alumni.  One of the reasons Princeton is able to haul in this kind of cash is that they put every five years of […]

Originally posted at ODonnellWeb, but since I’m drinking one right now…
This my friends is the nectar of Gods. It pours a pretty copper color with a white head that thins quickly but does stick around in it’s diminished state. The nose is best described as 2 week old Christmas tree. That’s a good thing, trust […]

Previously posted at ODonnellWeb - however I am drinking one of these right now
I admit it, I bought this because it had monkey in the name. Didn’t read the label and had no idea what to expect. With a name like Golden Monkey, how could I go wrong?
Holy Belgian yeasts Batman! This is one […]

I used to be a pretty avid homebrewer, but about 4 or 5 years ago I just stopped. With three young kids in the house, it was just too hard to find the time to do it. But now that the kids are old enough to self-entertain and they don’t need to have adult eyes […]

Sorry, no picture for this one. I’m brewing a batch of stout (the first homebrew I’ve made in 4 or 5 years) and it’s going to be ready for bottling tomorow. The problem is, I don’t have enough bottles. So to free up a few bottles, I’m downing the last of the beers in fridge […]