Glenmorangie, how do I love thee?
The biggest selling single malt in Scotland but from a small company. Glenmorangie (the Scots pronounce it to rhyme with “orangey”) made an early start: It has been available as a single since the 1920s.
The distillery is at Tain is in the county of Ross-shire, on the Morangie burn and [...]

This just in from cyclocross nationals in Kansas City: “Beer sales, they say, have lagged as the temperature has dropped.”
And we’re stuck there for another year? Time for Flagstaff to put in a bid. They’ll still be pounding ‘em down there after the sun’s burned out. “Fuckin’ dark, huh, Jonny? Fuckin’ cold, too. Better gimme [...]

WILL YOUR FAVORITE BEER COST MORE?
Here’s what some brewers are doing:
- Anheuser-Busch Cos.: The maker of Budweiser, Bud Light and Michelob expects to raise prices.
- Yuengling: Hasn’t decided on a in crease yet, but a higher price is likely after Jan. 1.
- Appalachian Brewing Co.: ABC is still deciding on raising prices.
-Stoudt’s: The Adamstown brewer [...]

In Bayern, you can have a traditional breakfast of Weisswurst with sweet mustard, a soft pretzel and a delicious Weissbier. (There is no lemon in beer. Lemon is for lemonade. Get over it.) Here I am in action last year when a friend came to visit.

Now that is a healthy breakfast, and you get to [...]

I’ve never seen anything quite like it. El Tour is off the hook.
What is El Tour de Tucson?
Founded in 1983 with 198 cyclists, El Tour de Tucson has grown into “America’s largest perimeter bicycling event” with over 9,000 cyclists, 2,000 volunteers and 27,000 spectators. In its 24-year history, El Tour has raised over [...]

With all the problems in the world, you gotta pour booze down the drain?
What’d the booze ever do to you? I mean, what’d the booze every do that was bad?
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Here’s a sobering thought: Hundreds of bottles of Jack Daniel’s whiskey, some of it almost 100 years old, may be unceremoniously poured [...]

No, seriously… I lived there. I know firsthand how crazy they can get. It look as though it runs in the family.

Lance’s Daughter Shows, Tells Olsen

CLASS CLOWNS Ash, Lance
Most little girls take Barbie dolls to show-and-tell. But not Lance Armstrong’s daughter. Radar has learned that one of the part-eunuch biker’s young daughters (he has twins) [...]

This just in, from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram via The San Francisco Chronicle:
Police Cite Man for Watching Porn in Car
Police issued a citation for a man accused of watching pornography on his car DVD player. Cameron J. Walker, 24, of Irving, was issued misdemeanor citations for obscene display or distribution, not having a driver’s license [...]

Remember when the Spice girls could be considered ‘hot’? Or at least ‘do-able’ ? If you could get past the annoying caterwauling and bullshit?
Yes, time is a cruel mistress.

I bet Beckham has to drink kimself to sleep every night. I know I would.
—bikepunk

This might be an indicator of how bad he needs the dope.
Ashley Olsen and Lance Armstrong were spotted at the Rose Bar in New York Monday night. The two seemed to be really enjoying each other’s company, according to Page Six:
Our bar spy said, “They came together with a group of friends. Ashley drank red [...]

. . . to Jerry Thomas, “the Jupiter Olympus of the bar,” according to “The Bartender Who Started It All”, a story in today’s New York Times.
The tale’s jumping-off point is “Imbibe!” (Perigee Books, $23.95), a biography-slash-recipe book by David Wondrich, the drink correspondent for Esquire. Wondrich follows Thomas’s perigrinations from Sackets Harbor, N.Y., to [...]

19 year old steals truck, goes on bender.
Refueling’s a bitch.
he ran off, losing his shoes, and was later found under some bushes behind his home. at that time he blew a .165.
sucker.

I must take exception to Big Jonny’s description of my hometown in the vile post below. “Graveyard with lights,” indeed. The actual phrase, as employed in the late Seventies by Rusty Mitchell, former food editor for the Gazette Telegraph, is “cemetery with lights,” although she occasionally used the slightly less pejorative “suburb without a city.”
But [...]

It’s about the beer. All about the beer.

At €15, or about $20.50, per case of 20 bottles, Welde is one of the most expensive beers in Germany, on a par with Becks. Günther Kollmar, owner of the competing Oettinger brewery in central Germany, fairly chokes on his Pilsener at the thought of the high prices [...]

Here is one reason why:
[snip:] According to a recent EU study, carried out by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, he is the rule. Swedish workers topped the European vacation rankings, entitled to an average of 33 paid vacations days in 2006 – close to 7 [...]

Greetings, Rapscallions. I’d like to present for the readers, my latest tale. It’s miserably brisk, and painfully uncomplicated. I’ll put it to you like this: Brooklyn sucks. Durham is Rad. Not to ruin the ending, but the Scallywag gets nicked. I need a beer.
Chapter 1

The Middle

The [...]

Comes the news from The Old Gray Lady that some of NASA’s space cowboys have gone from the right stuff to the good stuff, which is to say that they’ve been getting good and hammered before slipping the surly bonds of Earth. Are you shittin’ me? You want me to sit on top of a [...]

Well, there’s a point in every dog owner’s life where the inevitable happens. Your buddy, compadre, fearless and ever-loyal companion cashes in the big check, and goes on up to the stinky junkyard in the sky. For our clumsy-yet-ever-compassionate leader of men and eater of steak, that day is today.
Loyal readers, I ask [...]

So after a weekend of running our first ever mountain bike festival into the history books and pouring a week’s worth of Deschutes Brewing’s production down my neck I felt pretty good about the world.

Then this morning I returned to work and began the day with my usual “Coffee and Scandal” fifteen minutes on [...]

The last time I organized something, I said never again. Ever. That was four months ago. About the same amount of time it takes me to forget that i swore to myself i would never again drink myself into oblivion.
Friday all of this is going to come back around and you can [...]