Don't expect much from me today. What a thunder storm. Like the 1812 Symphony without the orchestra: boom, blam, whammo. What with the many mouths a wailing, not a lot of sleep. I almost wrote "flat chest" up there. One more week in August and therefore in summer. Summer really ends around here in …

Is this the first Easter weekend in years that I have not headed to Portland Maine, home of the greatest gang of hosts and the Chocolate Boston? There has been a primordial urge to see the sea in America that has had to be acted upon. This year, however, the call is that of the shingling roofer to …

Statistically few people here also go to our sister station A Good Beer Blog. If you were wanting to do it but felt like you needed an invitation, today is the day as I am really pleased with how this picture turned out.

Just in case some of you are not readers of A Good Beer Blog, I would like to brag about my photos of imperial stout.

So there I am, in the last paragraph 14th story in The New York Times, Business Section, Media and Advertising page, web edition index at 6:37 am Monday morning with the precious URL, all live and linky:  •  No seized web site or anything. No referrers yet as I can see. Oh well. Wait for the …

Interesting times over at our sister-station, A Good Beer Blog. Mike reviews the Gales Best Bitter he had at the Wykeham Arms in Winchester, England recently and I review the writings of Terry Foster, 40 years a brewer. Notes about two Adnams beers were also posted.  •  I also discuss the recent …

Now that the Yankees are out of the playoffs, I can admit again to my enjoyment of things New York...more upstate than anything but, as the City and upstate have a mutually vestigal relationship, there is much of the City to be found upstate. One great thing is the New York Times, another is the …

Now that I have spent more than a year having made up with New Hampshire, I can enjoy Smuttynose as I should. These variety packs are great. They introduce you to a brewery's product for under 20 bucks Canadian, 14 US. Smart marketing. Good labels, too. The two old guys on lawn chairs on the IPA …

Who can resist when one reviewer says: " Very possibly the darkest beer in the world." Well...I suppose lots of people who do not like dark or black beer. But for people who understand that Guinness is actually red, this kind of line makes an ale very attractive.  •  Freeminer Brewery is one of …