Monthly Archive for January, 2011

You better hydrate.  You best have a gang of food in your belly.  Your mind must be focused and your palate on-point.  Cause you’re going to get slaughtered…with a smile on your face. Hold on to your hats, craft beer geeks, because the hurricane-force winds have finally died down, and BrewYork #7 has gone down […]

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Before setting sail for battle, it is best to drink rum.  And a shitload of it. In fact, why don’t you light it on fire first to add a bit of toasty courage to your gullet (video below)?  So goes the wisdom of the Ron Cremat. This past weekend, my wife and I were once […]

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Pinot Gris, Prophet’s Rock, 2009, Central Otago (13.2% abv) The orcs are moving in on you.  You can hear their gnarled grunts approaching the perimeter of your camp like a fast-moving plague.  The ringwraiths were spotted yesterday on the horizon, their ghostlike, ethereal figures barely visible through the fog. You’re being hunted.  And the enemy […]

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