Posts Tagged ‘Beer’

Resurrection Day: The View from Southwest Oklahoma

SYNECDOCHE: Though it appears that with every new year the amount of people you meet who have rejected organized religion in favor of nothing/“spirituality” seems to increase, it is just as true that religious differences remain battle-line issues in many parts of the South and Midwest. Oklahoma...

September 3rd, 2012 | Featured | Read More

Church Hopping: Metcalf Funeral Chapel / Brewery Vivant

Back in April the Burnside Writers Collective had a bit of a reunion in Grand Rapids, Michigan, when we met up for the Festival of Faith & Writing. Most of the time, we work independently, ping-ponging emails from locations with skyscrapers, cacti, cornfields, and rivers, Skyping with background...

July 27th, 2012 | Church Hopping | Read More

Willie, Miss. State, and an Ole Miss Conspiracy

Written in August 2009, after two Willie Nelson concerts had been announced – then canceled – in central Mississippi. A third concert was set in north Mississippi; and yes, it was canceled. There are two Willie shows scheduled in Mississippi this summer – we’ll see …. Meanwhile, I still...

May 18th, 2011 | Arts, Featured, Music | Read More

Hop Churching – IPAs

A few years ago, three of my best friends and I bought 24 different India Pale Ales, took them down to a beach house at the Oregon Coast, and held a blind taste test. The results were satisfactory enough, with each of us determining which IPAs we favored, but the test was run haphazardly. I dumped...

April 23rd, 2010 | Featured, Food and Drink | Read More

Soccer Pubs and Social Justice

Let’s face it; unless you’re under the age of 10, soccer just isn’t that cool. Somewhere after that glorious period of mobbing the ball with nine of your friends through fields of dandelions while shrieking screams, the sport becomes drastically less cute and increasingly more boring for parents...

October 28th, 2009 | Featured, Sports | Read More

Are You Serious?

A tip from my friend Kristy lead me to this poll, which sought to definitively decide which American city could truly be called “Beer City USA”. Allow me to quibble with the results. (Also, what’s the beer glass on that image doing in Edmonton, Alberta?) 1. Portland, OR2. Asheville,...

May 12th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

1,900%?

Embedded video from CNN Video Ben Cannon, that young, earnest-looking fellow intent on taxing the hell out one of Oregon’s finest products represents District 46. District 46 includes the Mt. Tabor neighborhood, where I grew up (and where my parents grew up and still live). In fact as his bio...

February 17th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

Beer Reviews – Odell Brewing

Fort Collins-based Odell Brewing is new to Arizona, opening up distribution with a packed-house party in Scottsdale some weeks ago. Because Mindy was working a 30-hour shift, and I do love a new beer, I stopped in to the packed-house, catching the national championship game on a TV with folks clamoring...

January 28th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

Beer…TO THE EXTREME!!!

On one slow evening at the store where I worked in Portland, I was working the cash registers when a boozed-up gentlemen in his mid-20′s with a backward baseball cap stormed in. “WHERE’S YOUR BEER?!” he shouted. I squinted derisively and pointed toward the back. Moments later,...

November 20th, 2008 | Blog | Read More

Beer Reviews – Wet-Hopped Pale Ales

Ah, Fall. What a glorious season. Around the Green household, Fall means three things: 1) Football2) Chili (It’s Mindy’s signature dish.)3) A new batch of freshly hopped pale ales Two of those really just pertain to me. Mindy might like the changing of the leaves or something like that. For...

November 10th, 2008 | Blog | Read More