2016: The Dumpster Fire of Dumpster Fires
It’s 12:00 am on January 1st, 2015 in your respective time zone. Chances are pretty high that you are kissing a loved one, raising an adult beverage, doling out hugs with little regard to how well you know the recipient and likely exclaiming “Happy New Year” because it’s what we do. Over the next hour or so your champagne drunken mind begins sharing your goals and resolutions with anyone who makes the mistake of looking you in the eyes. You probably talked about how you will stick to your diet or travel more or...
read moreDespair. Reflect. Rebuild.
It’s 5:30 in the morning. I’ve been awake since 3. I’m not drunk, anymore. The girlfriend is upstairs trying to get some sleep and here I am, writing, trying –like you– to make sense of this all. Did I mention that it’s 5:30 in the fucking morning? We know what happened, we can admit that now right? We have a president elect that has mocked the disabled and our troops. He’s been openly misogynistic and racist. He’s threatened to jail political opponents and isolate our country. We got...
read moreSelf Depricating Pumpkin Beer Drinkers
Pumpkin beers have never been my thing. This really doesn’t mean a whole lot to the general public considering other things that I dislike that many enjoy include the NBA, BuzzFeed lists and Game of Thrones (ok I don’t dislike it but just haven’t watched it nor want to). So excuse me if I have never quite gotten the whole pumpkin beer craze that I have noticed in my near decade of being a craft beer fan. Year after year fans of this fall seasonal drink up gallon after gallon of the spice forward brew and clamor for more....
read moreDe-Evolution of a Proper Beer Pour
Pouring a proper beer can be an art form. Hell it can even win you competitions as evidenced by my friend Brian winning the National Duvel Pouring Competition a few years back. Look at that sexy beast…and Brian. I mean he won a trip to Belgium for that. Yes pouring the perfect Duvel is slightly different than pouring your locally brewed IPA but it follows some similar principles. The most obvious of these is the head on the beer. The head, or foam, on the top of a beer can be difficult to get right at first but it’s a task...
read moreJust Give Me the Damn Price!
Shopping through the internet has made life more simple than handing over your Google account information to the maker of the Pokemon Go app. I can sit in my bed, on my couch or even the throne and make purchases that will then be shipped to my house. I don’t have to put clothes on, operate a car and, most importantly, deal with other human beings. As much as I enjoy a nice discussion with people to learn more about ourselves I would rather wade through a pool filled with cancer infected leeches than talk to someone at a store. But...
read more5 Common Label Mistakes That Breweries Make
In my time that I have been working in the craft beer industry I’ve been all over the place. My title is Brewery Operations Manager and up until recently I have done a lot more than a typical person with that title would do. One of those things was a lot of our graphic design for things like can and bottle labels. We’ve recently hired a new person that will be taking the design aspects away from me so that I can focus more on our operations but in my 4 plus years of designing for a brewery I’ve learned a lot about the...
read moreTesting the Ganzfeld Effect
Through my toiling away on YouTube this past week I came across a video from a channel that I have a great deal of respect for with a title claiming a process that one can hallucinate without the use of drugs. This grabbed me as I’ve been curious about the hallucinogenic effects some drugs can have but don’t want to actually partake in said drugs. Be proud mom and dad. The phenomenon is known as the Ganzfeld Effect. I won’t get into the history of the experiments done around this phenomenon as that’s not the point...
read moreI’ve Taken a Break from Facebook and it Feels Great
It might be safe to say that 2016, at almost half way through, has been a motherfucker. This year has had no problem with sending a number of beloved actors, artists, musicians and human beings to the river of sticks. Not discounting death to high profile individuals this year has brought a lot of death that has been senseless to say the least. According to the Mass Shooting Tracker there have been over 200 mass shootings in not quite 6 fulls month in the US. Couple all this death with the circus that is the Presidential race and you are...
read moreRelaunch
I’ve owned this domain name longer than any other domain I’ve ever had. Yet through all that time I’ve never been able to keep a design or concept that I liked. Each time I redesigned I would be tired of it again after a few months and just let it sit. With all that said I’m not making any promises that this time will be any different. I’ve decided that the site that bears my name should be up and functional. It should also portray me for who I am and what I’m about. I’ve figured that those...
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