There’s a massive uptick in one Atlanta industry, and that’s beer. Not only are new breweries opening on a seemingly weekly basis, existing brands are opening second locations, some attached to the original like Sweetwater’s The Woodlands but in some cases they break new ground. In the West End part of the Beltline, you can […]
Last Wednesday night, I was invited to a bottle share at my friend Jason Dominy’s house. Jason is a beer wizard. He podcasts about the subject (here’s him talking Craft Beer 101), writes about it and lives it. He was “releasing” a batch of beer he made influenced by Funky Buddha’s Last Snow. During the […]
Last weekend I had a three-grill, three-barrel-aged-beer kind of weekend. Here’s how it went: Friday night: I can’t say that I’ve perfected pizza on the Big Green Egg but it certainly is one of my strengths. I decided, on the odd suggestion of an episode of Food Network’s ubiquitous Diners, Drive-Ins and Drives, to make […]
Last weekend was one of two remaining “wall to wall” football weekends, with playoff games on Saturday and Sunday. We even had a sporting event between two amateur squads on Monday night because America hates productivity. That meant instant excuse for day drinking. Is there anything better than that first 1 p.m. beer, with the […]
I was going to post a “live blog” about my Sunday afternoon activities. It would have gone something like this: 12:02 p.m.: Opened first beer, Bell’s Best Brown (16 ounce can, 54 degrees fahrenheit at opening), cleaned and fired up Big Green Egg 12:07 p.m.: Had to delay workout (walking at medium pace due to […]
On Thursday, I was at my parents’ house for Thanksgiving, about to have the best turkey of my life (non-fried edition) and one question directed at me was “are you going to shop on Black Friday?” That question when directed at me is like asking one of my cats when they’re going to start working […]
When you acquire a certain level of beer, you start concocting “theme” nights and naturally you have to share these nights because otherwise you’re just drinking alone. I personally don’t mind drinking alone but there are times when it’s better to share. My friend Don is still mostly a wine/tequila guy but he’ll drink a […]
If your fantasy teams do poorly, it’s a good idea to compensate with other areas in life. For me, that “area” is often beer. Once again I found myself at a writer/book event and spent the day herding baby authors making pitches to book agents. I even made my own book pitch, oddly outside of […]
These “daily” reports have faded as I’ve been traveling and failed to take good notes on what I’m consuming. Last weekend I was at the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance conference in Savannah with the wife so whatever I read was on the fly and on my phone. Here are @ffdejenerate’s Week Three Targets (must be […]
If I’m a bit melancholy this weekend, it’s because I failed to attend a live fantasy football draft for the first time since 2000. A few things have changed in my life in that time. I already wrote about my mixed feelings on the league and my eventual departure. I finally handed off the trophy, […]
