Beer Reviews @ Dethroner

Jason has been busy reviewing beers over at Dethroner. Here are the latest:

Jason has been busy reviewing beers over at Dethroner. Here are the latest:
To help kickstart your new year, we want you to give you some goodies including a copy of a new copy of our book DIY Cocktails!
Looking around for Thanksgiving dessert inspiration, I found some mouth-watering pumpkin desserts that incorporate a wee bit of booze. Pumpkin pie with brandy Bourbon pumpkin cheesecake Pumpkin cake with whiskey whipped cream Pumpkin rum cake with brown sugar icing Pumpkin mousse parfaits (pictured) Photo by azcentral.com.
Another pick from Trader Joe’s. This wine was purchased for $9.99, a steal for a Pinot Noir from the Santa Maria Valley, which is near Santa Barbara California. For those of you who remember, this region was part of the Sideways journey. I am pretty picky about Pinot and this is one of the growing regions that I think produces some of the best Pinot Noir in California. My fave is Russian River and the Santa Maria Valley isn’t far behind.
For any of you movie buffs, the 1976 battle between French wines and their upstart American counterparts entitled the “Judgment of Paris” was chronicled in the highly fictionalized movie Bottleshock. While Bottleshock was certainly entertaining and spotlighted the super cute Chris Pine, it didn’t exactly stick to the story. If you are interested in how the tale actually unfolded, pick up George Tabor’s Judgment of Pari