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Super Suckfest

The fact that it’s a vehicle for shit beer ads isn’t the only reason why the Super Bowl is super crappy. I hate the Super Bowl. I know it sounds un-American, but don’t get me wrong: I love professional football. Whether it’s an intense, high-stakes showdown like the Saints-Patriots earlier this year or a crap sandwich between a couple of shit teams like, I dunno, the 49ers and Seattle, I’ll plop my ass down on the couch on a Sunday afternoon and enjoy it all while sipping a nice Midwest craft brew.

But the media and … by Eddie Glick—published February 5, 2010 full article »  (5 comments)

Live Every Month Like It’s International Month

Where, for one month, at least, we’re kind of like Magellan except with beer. And another International Month—colloquially known as “February”—is upon us at BeerDorks.com. This is the month that we expand our horizons not just outside our Midwest comfort zone, but outside the border itself to beers brewed in the nether (i.e. “non-U.S.”) regions of the world.

We do this to shine a spotlight on some great beers you may encounter in your various ramblings across the countryside that you might not have heard a lot about, or … by Eddie Glick—published February 2, 2010 full article »  (2 comments)

Sacrifices

Getting a skunked beer every now and then is a tiny price to pay in order to enjoy the wide varieties of splendor that is craft beer. So I got an infected beer the other day. How did I know it was infected? Well, first off, the bottle erupted like Mt. Vesuvius. But instead of liquid hot magma, it was, you know, foamy beer. Second, when I poured it, the beer foamed up WAY more than normal carbonation could have accounted for. And lastly, it smelled and tasted like someone had just squeezed an entire fucking lime into it. The rest … by Eddie Glick—published January 20, 2010 full article »  (2 comments)

Holy History, Batman!

Why is it big chunks of history about beer and brewing get not only ignored, but even denied? So I recently got done reading Pete Brown’s Hops And Glory, subtitled One Man’s Search For The Beer That Built The British Empire.

It’s a decent read. Brown, a British beer journalist, attempts to recreate the 18th century journey of India pale ale from the brewery in Burton-upon-Trent all the way to Kolkata (Calcutta). In other words, entirely by boat. A bit of a spoiler: he cheats. But probably not for the reason you’d think. … by Eddie Glick—published January 11, 2010 full article »  (2 comments)

This Is Not A List Of The Year’s Most Interesting Beer Stories

Definitely, positively, swear-on-grannie’s-grave not such a list. So, another year has passed us by. We’re all that much closer to death. Yeah, thoughts like that make you wanna ponder the last 365 days, wonder where the time went, and hatch plots to make promises about next year that nobody in their right mind would intend to keep. And it also, for some reason, makes people think about lists. Not to-do lists, but lists of the best of this and the worst … by Eddie Glick—published December 30, 2009 full article »  (3 comments)

Give The Man A Beer!

If I worked all frickin’ night and no one offered me a beer, I’d probably crap in someone’s stocking. So have you heard about this idiotic outcry about Labatt’s holiday marketing campaign? If not, I’ll sum up: In a recent commercial, Labatt’s suggests that this Christmas, we should all leave a bottle of their beer for Santa instead of milk with his cookies. This, of course, caused a huge outcry by neoprohibitionists with their usual chorus of “Think of the children!”

Allow me to counter this idiocy with a few points.

Number one. Santa Claus … by Eddie Glick—published December 24, 2009 full article »  (4 comments)

Holy Shit, Molson Coors Invents Tiny Fucking Bubbles

Wow! Big news in the world of brewing, and I mean BIG. Molson Coors has announced a technological breakthrough in the brewing process … well, actually this has absofuckinglutely nothing to do with the brewing process, but, in fact, the bubble-making process. It’s called Microcarbonation, also known among the uneducated as Tiny Bubbles™. You can only experience this “revolutionary” advance in science by drinking M, “the world’s only Microcarbonated lager beer.”

This beer is, well, incredible. I … by Eddie Glick—published November 25, 2009 full article »  (8 comments)

Beer Dorks News

Beer. Good for the bones. Another new brew coming out for Milwaukee’s Lakefront. Great Lakes opens an outlet at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. Goose Island launches a green beer in Chicago. So many punchlines we could go with on this one... The Sugar Maple takes the crown for Milwaukee's best beer list. That's as prestigious as winning Best Picture at the Oscars. A piece of Eddie's childhood, gone forever. A toast to the now deceased “Home of the Beer Lube.” Ze Germans have claimed the ABV crown, with a new 40% brew. Time to pump the brakes on this trend before beer turns into moonshine. Milwaukee's oldest craft brewer, Sprecher, finally opens a brewpub. Too bad it's in Madison. Youngstown's Rust River Brewing making a name for themselves from their brewery at the old B&O Railroad station. Memphis set to host two new brew fests this spring, giving Memphians opportunites to experience craft brews. Wait... Memphians?