Josh on July 15th, 2009

Rogue is the brewery that turned me on to craft beer.  Like a lot of people, the gateway beer I tried in my early drinking days was Guinness stout.  Suddenly, a beer that didn’t taste like malt-flavored water!  Other British beers, like Kilkenny and Boddingtons, gave me my earliest taste of beer styles beyond American [...]

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Josh on June 2nd, 2009

“Si, si,” he says more to himself than me, gazing up to the sky. “Our ale must not be sloppy chili dog. It must enlighten the tongue, put fire in the eyes, and make one wish to laugh and dance away the day’s work and siesta till the end of time.”

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Josh on April 8th, 2009

If a tree falls in the woods and there’s no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?
If you buy a bottle of malt liquor but it’s made by a craft brewery, does it still taste like gasoline?
Malt liquor is famously awful-tasting; a drink you only buy because it’s cheap and high in [...]

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Josh on March 4th, 2009

Although I’ve been a big fan of craft beer for years now, a beer tasting is something I’d never attempted to helm until last weekend. Now that I’ve hosted one, I can’t wait to do it again, and recommend it to everyone as a way to try great beer and have fun with your [...]

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