I, too, have this job because of Tommy. More broadly, I have my faith in writing, in editing, in journalism as a whole as something still worth doing in 2015 because of Tommy. He’s the best, and smartest, and sharpest, and angriest writer I know. I’m heartbroken that I’ll no longer get to work alongside him, but… Read more

To everyone who (most likely didn’t read this beautiful and heartfelt essay on what it means to be a friend and and instead) is eagerly taking advantage of the unsupervised open space below to post your unneeded, unwanted and ultimately entirely impertinent opinions about the post or Gawker in general, I won’t bestow… Read more

One morning, shortly after I had been hired full time, one of our editorial fellows, Dan, sent an email to Tommy and me, explaining that he would be a little bate late getting into work because he’d been mugged the night before, and was still sort of getting himself together. Tommy emailed him back, telling him to… Read more

Hard to get for you since they’re just in New Jersey, but would encourage you to seek out Carton Boat, a 4.2% session ale. Might not qualify for this article since it’s not considered an IPA by the brewery but it’s damn good and flies off the shelves and out of the brewery. Would highly recommend you trying it if you… Read more

12. In theory, it could prevent your death via dehydration. Read more

If you’re more of the forward-planning type, put your fruit in the hard liquor the night before. Not only does it make the sangria that much better, but then one of your friends will come to the party, and she won’t want to get drunk that night, so she will just pick fruit off the sangria bowl, but she won’t tell you,… Read more

Excited to see this reviewed. Flower Power was my gateway craft beer and Cruiser is my go to summer beer. Read more

The Westbrook Gose is evenmore palatable than The Holy Gose in my opinion. Highly recommended.
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Berliner Weisse had the hype, but Gose swooped in to take the crown as trendy tart beer of summer 2015. Read more

Since I’ve only been a reluctant participant to a round or two of Fireball shots, and never had the urge to try any of its knock offs, I will take your word for it. Excellent writing though, as usual. Read more

I love British ales, porters, stouts, but really do not like IPAs. Much like religion, I’m fine with others liking something I do not. But IPAs have become the crabgrass of craft beers, at least in the ale field. No one makes anything except IPAs (or German lagers or Czech pilsners, but I don’t like those). Why isn’t… Read more

For the last few long, hot summers, I have dearly missed their Köld kolsch. A crisp, complex, aromatic beer and damn fine straight out of the tallboy. Read more

Is there an IPA called Christmas Tree Water? Because that is what I would name one. Read more

“Bloggers, for instance, will sometimes meander around the point for several paragraphs before getting down to business.” Haha.

On a serious note though—there’s 1300 breweries in Germany and 99% of them make a pale lager. And most of them make more than one pale lager. I don’t hear anyone complaining about that. Read more

i WAS a hardcore Michelob and Michelob light drinker until they changed the shape of the bottle. THATS where they lost me. oh! the the 8 packs on nips, good lord were they GOOD. and i didnt look like every other Dink at the under age house party with the 8’s on bud nips. it set me apart, and it was worth the extra 80… Read more

They should bring back Michelob’s oddly shaped bottle for a retro rebirth Read more

I remember back in the 70’s when just getting a hold of a Coor’s (the banquet beer!) on this side of the Mississippi was a rare treat (at least that’s what we were supposed to think) and back then Mich-uh-lob was a slight move up from Bud, Miller or Old Milwaukee. Read more

FYI, Bronze Hammer microwaves his lunches three burritos at a time. Read more

At $5 a bottle I’d rather get an actual belgian (ex st. bernardus) wit. Or skip that and get some Allagash white for half the price.
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This beer is incredible. However, I would describe it very differently than you have. To me it tastes like Werthers Originals were in the brew process somewhere. Read more