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Format Change, Texas Hooch, and Aging Badly
Because, much to my shock and dismay, I MAY not actually be immortal, The Pour Fool, which I have LOVED writing for an astonishing 17 years, now, has to make a change, if Iām going to continue at all. Which I am. All those detractors cane have this website gone when my family pries my cold, dead fingers off this laptop. So, for time and energy ā in what has turned out to be a stupidly activeā¦
The High End Brown Water: A Self-Pampering Guide
Okay, to come clean, here, I wanted this series to be a daily list of good gifting and drinking suggestions for your and your loved ones. This list is based on what I, personally, have tasted and can recommend. So this post is largely taken from past posts in The Pour Fool, from which I have reread tasting notes to make sure I still want to say that same thing. In a few cases, Iāve made changes,ā¦
American Sour and Wild Ales: Where's the Niche?
I read this on Instagram, just the other day, from a brewer I really admire and follow closely. As fate blessed me, one of the nationās best sour/wild ale breweries, E9 Brewing, is the closest maker of beer to my house, here in Tacoma, Washington. 1.77 miles down McKinley Avenue and I pull up to a tiny universe of authentic, rustic, inspired, and blessedly uncontrived sours and wilds andā¦
Consolidation in Brewing: How the Indies Stay Indie
In the recent past, most people debated brewery consolidation from the stand point that it is one of two things: Either a mega-brewer like AB or Duvel bought smaller breweries and basically just ran them as show ponies for their claim to be ā in ABās own words ā āa friend to brewers everywhere!ā, or some larger and more successful craft Indie snapping up failing smaller operations as a means ofā¦
The American Media in 2024: Is Something Afoot?
(Above photo property of Radicalmedia.com and Showtime Networks)As a former writer and reporter for several straight-press outlets, Iāve watched this election cycle with the same bafflement that many of my fellow LibDems have expressed. I am a BIG fan and defender and even, to some degree, an apologist for mass media and I do not doubt for a millisecond that some media outlets ARE run byā¦
OFF TOPIC: Schrodinger's Ballot
I was in Austin Bergstrom Airport, last Thursday, while my wife was making a phone call. I was in one of those stand-up bars, sipping a Garrison Brothers Bourbon, and idly watching the TV. I suddenly and unintentionally tuned into a conversation right next to me, behind me. I didnāt turn to look but I heard the end of a discussion about voting in November:āā¦just feel like I have to turn out andā¦
Echoes Brewing: A Brewer's Resurrection
Three years on...it's TIME for an Echoes Brewing refresher course.
Echoes Brewing ā right now, not someday down the road ā is one of the best and most significant breweries in the Pacific Northwest. Echoes Brewmaster J Mark HoodIn looking through past posts in The Pour Fool, I was astonished to find that the last time I did a post about Echoes Brewing, of tiny Poulsbo, Washington, was 2021. December 27th or 2021, in fact. At the time, Echoes was pretty muchā¦
Regaining Clarity: In Praise of the West Coast IPAs
Everybody knows the story: 2020, SUDDENLY the entire world changed. Our communal picture, already muddled by the blight of Trumpism, became far more clouded by the kind of global pandemic that NO ONE but a relative handful scientists saw coming and, as millions became sick and even died, that cloudy picture became damned near opaque. Fast forward (there was actually nothing āfastā about it) toā¦
E9 Brewing and Emma Hibbs: Making the Case for Pro-Am Beer
Harpua absolutely slam-hammers every one of my Dark Ale buttons, of which there are many and many of those rarely touched.
This new version of The Pour Fool will be smaller in every dimension and, toward that end, there will be a lot more straight product reviewsā¦WITH, of course, the same caveat as has been from the beginning (in 2007! Holy SMOKES!) that I will NEVER write a negative thing about any producer EXCEPT Anheuser Busch, breweries that sell out to Anheuser Busch, or breweries like that crapbag Midwesternā¦
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Drink Local: AGAIN, Why This is What Saves Us.
āLetās stop seeing the consequences of our continued support of beers like Budweiser and Coors and Miller and Pabst as abstractions.Ā They areĀ NOTā¦We, the beer-buying American public, get to choose whether our own neighborhood businesses survive and thrive or whether fat cat foreigners just keep gettinā fatter and fatter. I know which one I choose. There has never been any doubt.ā ā The Pour Fool,ā¦
Engine House 9 Tacoma: The Changing Face of Washington Brewing, Part One
(In the eight+ years since I wrote this post ā originally intended to be a a paean to a startling new brewery in a city not known for Drinking Outside the Box ā a lot of what was here has changed. I lived, at the time, 45k miles up the road in Bellevue, Washington, and we owned a rental property in Tacoma, which I was 100% responsible for maintaining. I spent a LOT of tine in Tacoma and saw aā¦
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Deschutes Brewery "The Dissident": How the Cherry Varies
Dissident x 2: The result is a virtual textbook on aged versus new Flanders ales. Iāve adopted a new writing paradigm for the future. In the past, Iāve taken some pains to over-explain the styles and terminology and other factors which underlie beverages I reviewed. After almost sixteen years of this thing, I have to suppose that enough of the people who routinely read this have enough of aā¦
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Barleywine: The Great Misunderstood
What You Need To Know:Barleywine is not made from grapes nor is it fortified ale or a light brandy. It is a Strong beer and must be enjoyed in Moderationā¦unless you really like jail. Youāve heard/read about Barleywine. I mean, unless youāve been living on the International Space Station for the past decade and maybe even if you have. Iāve been drinking them and selling them and preaching theā¦
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Landmark: Double Mountain and Solera and the Fresh Hops
Hereās what you Need To Know:This is a near-perfect fresh-hopped IPA, best one, in fact, since Deschutes immortal āHop Tripā.It is balanced, complex, fruity, prettily bitter, and damnably easy to drink. Look for it. Get it. Drink it. Love it. Hereās my bottom line on the new āIowa Bar Fightā Fresh Hop IPA from Double Mountain Brewery and Solera Brewery of Hood River, Oregonā¦ Iowa Bar Fight isā¦
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Double Mountain & Everybody's: Escapism Done Right
So, I get this package from Double Mountain Brewing of Hood River, Oregon, and Iām having a busy day and toss it in the beer fridge and go about my businessā¦which, these days, involves making hummingbird nectar and pruning honeysuckle, or some other such domestic shite that falls to retired guys. At any rate, I get sidetracked by these crucial, momentous, paradigm-shifting tasks andā¦forget theā¦
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The Ultra-Premiums: Why They Don't Matter
You will never be able to afford themā¦ You MAY never even see themā¦So why are we so obsessed with them? Anyone who has ever had a good friend who is āinto wineā runs the very real risk that this person will be a devout, unapologetic, possibly even over-bearing Francophile; occasionally a Burgundy geek but far more likely a stone, rock-ribbed Bordeaux fanatic. Many of us who have friends whoā¦
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"Shelf Turds": The Blind Spot on the Wine Shop Rack
āShelf turdsā¦āThat sentence opener gets repeated a lot in wine shops and what follows is rarely ever good. Itās an insider term that occupies that same dyspeptic niche as Score Whores, and Cherry-Pickers, when wine sales tradespeople get together to drink and bitch. Put simply, a shelf turd is any wine that the shop owners buys but then canāt sell. It can literally be ANYTHING. If the shop hasā¦
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