The McBournie Minute: Everyone chill out, craft beer will be fine

I follow craft beer news, so when I see something make headlines in non-beer-geek news outlets, it’s always surprising to me. I’ve been surprised quite a bit lately. As with any industry, there’s the major, and usually inaccurate news that the average person will hear about, and then there’s the day-to-day stuff that’s in the weeds. It’s the news that no one cares about except for people who are in the industry, or fans of it.

This may come as a shock to many of you, but I am a fan of craft beer. My fandom grew from just imbibing new and exciting brews, to making beer myself, to reading up on what the pros are doing to get excited about their new stuff, and get inspiration for my own attempts.

But there’s been a lot of crap out there about craft beer lately. Pull up a stool, pour yourself a pint, and let’s sort it out. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Everyone chill out, craft beer will be fine

Washington’s golden age of pot turning into brass age for sellers

People, we believe in the guiding hand of capitalism. It speaks and we listen. Thanks to capitalism, we no longer have Crystal Pepsi! And in the state of Washington, the people have spoken: they’ve got more than enough weed already.

It would seem that the supply of marijuana for the state has more than exceeded the demand for the drug, as prices for the plant are plummeting all over the state by legal sellers. According to one store owner, he’s buying stock at half the cost of what it was just four months ago.

What does this mean? We might see the end of a couple stores. You can blame the economic law of supply and demand, but we blame a store specializing in the weed version of Crystal Pepsi.

Spoonfuls of sugar ruled ineffective without medicine

Thanks to moronic Orange County parents, the last sound their children may hear is a barber shop quartet.
Thanks to moronic Orange County parents, the last sound their children may hear is a barber shop quartet.

From its now unrecognizable Main Street to the mid-century Americana-themed Frontierland, Disneyland is dedicated to preserving America as it once was: simple, clean and full of boutique-style gift shops that haven’t been driven out of business by online sales and Wal-Mart. So, it’s only fitting that Disneyland would also bring back authentic, small town diseases like the measles.

Let this be a lesson to parents who believe that there are options to vaccination: yes, drinking the water in It’s a Small World, but only for diphtheria and cholera.

Seattle attacked by fog that smells like ass

Last week, fair city of Seattle was covered in a fog that smelled bad. Like, smelled like crap. The whole city. In other words, Seattle smelled like it did in 1991.

There is no shortage of theories as to what the cause of the smelly fog was, but one researcher has the most plausible ones: it was the city, not the fog that smelled. Meteorologist and likely geological term Cliff Mass said that the fog that rolled in acted as a lid on Seattle, which kept all the pollutants and foul smells any city emits on a daily basis from venting out.

In other words, it was like farting on a plane.