7 Tips For Surviving Beer Festivals

It’s beer festival season, formally known as “summer”. Humanity’s greatest accomplishment? Possibly. Here’s how to make sure you make it through. Ascertain! You need to get through thirty breweries in four hours! Just dive in and start sampling beers, right? Wrong, friend-o. The fact that beer festivals offer so much … Read More

5 Gallon Whisky Barrel

Love barrel-aged beer? Love home brewing? Well, they you need to get yourself a barrel and start aging. We recommend this five-gallon whisky barrel ($120). It’s once-used American oak, but that’s not all: the guys who once-used it were the guys from Balcones, perhaps the most exciting whisky distillery south … Read More

How They Make Laphroaig

We’d recommend pouring a dram of Laphroaig 10 and then sitting back with this gem of a film. [youtube width=”640″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Xo900woaU[/youtube] ___ Photo courtesy of flickrbug. 

The Many Varieties of Whisky

We know that this’ll shock you, but: we’re big fans of whisky. Well, all spirits, but whisky in particular. Anyway, check out this new Pop Chart Lab print, the many varieties of whisky ($29), which is presumably designed to delight and enrage whisky drinkers in equal measure. No Japanese whisky? … Read More

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