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Fuck the Sobriety Police
My longest stretch of intentional sobriety lasted exactly nine days. I didn’t stop drinking because I’d overdone it or needed a gut check (sorry-not-sorry for the pun). It was the result of sheer...
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Ignorance Isn't Bliss
Let’s be honest: Beer’s entire purpose for existing is to fuck you up mentally and physically. It might sound like a buzzkill, but that’s the way it is. Beer isn’t “good” for you. It’s not healthy, and...
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The Toll of Trailblazing
Ever heard of David Scott? I hadn’t, until I Googled “Who is the seventh person to walk on the moon?”The first person to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong, achieved immortality for doing the exact same...
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Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now?
Graci Harkema. Jen Blair. Alpana Singh. These women, like countless others, have one thing in common: They’ve renounced or resigned from their prominent positions in the beverage industry due to...
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Can’t Fight This Feeling
I sometimes forget how time works differently at certain ages. A year for me, at age 36, is more of a blip than a landmark occasion. But for my four-and-a-half-year-old son, a year is monumental—a...
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The Evolution of a Bucket List
One of life’s strangest mysteries occurs when an offhand action or remark unexpectedly triggers an unforeseen change in the course of one’s existence. It’s happened to me a few times before: Once, I...
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Well I Guess This Is Growing Up
When people ask me why I got into craft beer, I usually admit that I was a “foodie” first. In 2008, I started The Delighted Bite, my now-defunct food blog filled with terrible photos (mostly taken with...
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I Didn’t Choose The Book Life, The Book Life Chose Me
Three years after I had the cuckoo idea to write a book, I wrote a book. It’s wild the way these things happen. You sit in front of a computer one day, force yourself to type out some garble, do that...
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