Yes I CAN

Saturday night and I needed to work on some writing. So I grabbed three cans out of my fridge.  Procrastination? Trying to generate positive energy? I’m not sure.  Take a look at these cans! The first few Blue Mountain beers I tried were on draft.  I didn’t like them.  I don’t remember what styles they […]

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Cigar A-Fishy-Nado

I find it strange that the editor in chief of Wine Spectator who ordered 12 copies of my dad’s book in 1990 has never printed the title, The Gourmet Guide to Cigars, anywhere in Cigar Aficionado in the last 20 years of publication.  How do I know it’s been 20 years?  Well, because they called […]

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Pepper-corny

Time spent in Maryland allowed me to visit a new shop.  After suggestions by my liver shirpa, I tried something new. I don’t like it. At $16.99, it should have sang “Gloria,” when I pulled the cork.  A cork, mind you, that I needed a pair of pliers to remove.  That did not make me […]

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Kind beer and some sawwwwz

  Hot Sauce to be exact. With this post I’m breaking my silence of the last few months.  I’m hoping for more posts, more often.  I’ve got a few monsters ready to post.  Big stories that will probably end up being multi-parters.  Lots of pics, charts, graphs, experts weighing in; lots of experimental data to […]

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No No Meatballs

It seems that all across the country, we had a mild winter.  Blame La Niña or Global Warming or the beginning of the 2012 Mayan apocalypse.  My favorite explanation for the unusually pleasant weather is that it’s a precursor to a zombie breakout.  Don’t say you weren’t warned.  Either way, get your survival plans on […]

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How I spent my new years

      Churchkey’s open bar, open kitchen, New Year’s Eve party.  2010/2011 NYE I was present like a gift-wrapped box under a tree and I had a blast, so when an email came from The Neighborhood Group, I jumped at the opportunity to return again.  The email said I could buy my ticket a week before they […]

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Coffee Break

It’s just not the morning for me (or afternoon) without hot, black, strong espresso. What can I say. I like my coffee just like I like my women, Hot, Black and Strong.  Ok, not the case, but that is always a head turner.  I dilly dallied with drip, then french press with its rich fulfilling […]

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Good Cheer

On the last day of the year I wanted to share a happy memory.  Back in April, after a rare Virginia DC Brau event at Fireworks, (DC Brau has since expanded production and should be back in VA early 2012)  I wound the night down with a dude visiting the area for work. He dug […]

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Festive Us

What’s more fun than a Soul Train dance line?  An impromptu breakdancing circle?  Finding $20 on the street?  Going to pickup your tv at Best Buy that you bought online for instore pickup and finding out that they just gave it to some random by accident?  (Read: Screw you Best Buy)  NO!  Festivus at Rustico […]

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