If you’re looking for some thorough backstory on exactly how and why I wound up on the doorstep of one of the finest breweries in America, check out the three-part post on my Midwest road trip (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). New Glarus Brewing Company deserves a post all its own and labeling […]
A Brewery Here, A Beer Bar There – Midwest Edition Part 3
Yes, I still have more to say about my recent road trip to the Midwest. If you missed out on the first two parts, then you’re shit outta luck. Just kiddin’. Click here for Part 1, and here for Part 2. Now, where were we? It wasn’t so much the “where”, but the “when” that […]
A Brewery Here, A Beer Bar There – Midwest Edition Part 2
If you haven’t checked out part one of my Midwest road trip, pump the breaks and click here. Or if you abhor Minnesota like Julie does, you can start two paragraphs below where the Wisconsin part of the trip begins. You’d think I’d have learned by now, but most trips with Julie begin with […]
A Brewery Here, A Beer Bar There – Midwest Edition Part 1
When your best friend gets married, buys a house, and gets a new puppy all within six months, there really is no better way to celebrate than by taking a gluttonous beer trip through her homeland of the Midwest. You may remember Julie from some of my past GABF posts (2016, 2017, 2018). She has […]
Bohemian-Style Pilsner
In late May 2019, I spent four days judging beer with brewers and beer professionals from all over the NW United States at the International Beer Awards in Idaho Falls, ID. About 100 judges worked through nearly 2,000 entries to decide which samples were the best of the best in each category. Utah claimed 25 […]
At the Edge of the World
For a century, the community known as Short Creek, has been home to the FLDS Church (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), a sect that broke away from the mainstream LDS church when it stopped practicing polygamy. This group of polygamists has lived in the Utah/Arizona border towns of Hildale and Colorado City […]