Now that St. Patrick’s Day is behind us, you might have found yourself with a few extra cans of Guinness in the fridge. Or perhaps you’re like me who decided it was a good idea to “stock up” on Guinness after the local store placed their remaining stock on-sale.  Regardless of how you have them, [...]

Beer bums in the greater Salt Lake City area and beyond have come to know and appreciate the small batch creativity of Epic Brewing’s Exponential Series.  The series is an ever growing selection of unique variations on traditional and non-traditional beer styles that are never lacking in character. During my most recent excursion, or stumble [...]

Over the course of my nomadic wanderings across America and Germany, I’ve consumed my fair share of black lagers, or Schwarzbiers.  It’s a lager style of that makes one want to “give into their feelings” and join the “Dark Side” of the force.  Schwarzbiers make being bad, feel oh so good. So when the newest [...]

After 24 mouth-watering gluttonous Super Bowl recipes this week (Part I and Part II) hopefully everyone is well prepared with food for Super Bowl Sunday.  But we here at sports-glutton.com know that any satisfactory Super Bowl celebration requires a balance of eats and drinks. With that in mind here are a few adult libations that [...]

The concluding edition of Thirsty Thursday for the month of January finishes with Deschutes Brewery’s Jubelale. Labeled by the brewery as “A Festive Winter Ale,” a bottle this beer fell into my possession by way of the generosity of my neighbor.  Lacking in extensive experience with Deschutes Brewery I was originally unsure whether to set [...]

This edition of Thirsty Thursday ebbs into the realm of session beers with Full Sail’s Session “Black Lager” or as we Germanophiles like to say Schwarzbier. While there are a plethora of definitions for what a session beer is, I prefer to define it as a beer with a high level of drinkability accompanied by [...]

After traveling through seven states, flying across the country twice, and catching whatever nasty sickness was present in the cabin of my flight from DC to California, I’ve finally returned home to Salt Lake City. Time to crack into some of the adult libations that I allegedly collected during my travels and get this Thirsty [...]