A belated Happy Opening Day to you all! I was very busy in the days and weeks leading up to the blessed event, pitching in on Sports Illustrated‘s MLB Preview issue (cover date March 30, edited by fiancée Emma Span), for which I interviewed multiple scouts about the strengths and weaknesses of opposing teams for …
Filling in the gaps on a few more brews of note, including a pair for this past week despite my ESPN El Paso radio spot — the raison d’etre of these lists in the first place — being postponed. • February 25: Smuttynose Durty Mud Season Hoppy Brown Ale Though they don’t get a ton …
In theory, I was supposed to do a better job of keeping up with the posts on this blog, at least when it came to beer. Alas travel, wedding planning (!) and a bit of bookpanic (a German word that roughly translates to “panic over the awesome responsibility of writing a book”) have conspired to …
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One reason I wanted to fire up this old blog again is to expound upon my passion for craft beer at greater length than Twitter or Untappd allow. Which isn’t to say that I’m anywhere close being to the most articulate person when it comes to discussing brews, but given a broad range of tastes …
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Three things, apparently unrelated except for the fact that when I reactivated the blog, I explicitly promised you cursing and beer as well as baseball: • Publisher wants to ban cursing in the newsroom At the York (PA) Daily Record, somebody is out of her fucking mind, namely publisher Sara Glines, who on Monday sent a …