Wine and beer have long been considered polar opposites. One is considered a fancy sip for suit and tie occasions while the other, a cheap chug for blue collared workers. There has never been more evidence to disprove this idea than today, and never a place more suited for the task than Oregon. With bountiful […]
Untappd: Social Media for Beer Lovers
If you love beer but you don’t have Untappd, you may not be tapping into your full potential as a beer drinker. I discovered the app just over two years ago and it has expanded my beer world exponentially. I recently reached an Untappd milestone; 1,000 distinct beers! In honor of my achievement, I decided […]
Common Beer Mispronunciations
There I was, seated at a small bar near the Willamette River in the Northwest District of Portland, Oregon. I was newly 23, and an infant in the beer world. I perused the beer menu looking for something akin to Blue Moon when I settled on Widmer Hefeweizen. As I ordered, a garbled, madly mispronounced […]
Whiskey Love at High West Distillery
I haven’t always loved whiskey. In fact, I didn’t like it all that much until one winter night at a party when I succumbed to the peer pressure of a shot ski. It wasn’t bad at all! The shot glass was filled with a rye from High West Distillery; and so began my whiskey love […]
The Great American Beer Festival Experience
Words and photographs are common tools used to express our deepest emotions and experiences. We string them together in a neat little line on a page in a way we hope will evoke the same emotions we felt while experiencing the event first hand. And yet, even the most captivating picture and descriptive paragraph […]
Gateway Styles for the Craft Beer-Curious
Developing a fondness for craft beer doesn’t happen overnight. Like many good things in life, beer is an acquired taste. I explored this concept in an earlier blog post, Beer; An Acquired Taste. If you want to know why developing a taste for something might be worth the effort, give it a read. For those […]