Clips

A comprehensive personal archive of all the things I’ve written. You can also check out my Muckrack page, which might be more current. No promises on that. I also publish on my Medium site when the spirit strikes me.

It’s time for craft beer to embrace organized labor
December 28, 2020 | October
The Classics: Conversations with Cannibals
December 21, 2020 | Midwesterner
North Peak Blitzen Festivus Is a Holiday Beer for the Rest of Us
December 17, 2020 | October
Getting to Know Arbeiter Brewing in Seven Glasses
December 11, 2020 | Heavy Table
There Are No Grey Days with Green Bench Les Grisettes
December 7, 2020 | October
Transmitter’s S9 Noble Saison Might Be the Best American Farmhouse Ale on the Market
December 5, 2020 | October
At Bricksworth Beer Co., Bar Luchador Lives On
December 4, 2020 | Heavy Table
Chad McDevitt Is Literally America’s Biggest Beer Nerd
December 3, 2020 | October
Yes, It’s OK to Drink This Beer for Breakfast
December 1, 2020 | October
Ranking Every Second Generation Wrestler In NXT
November 30, 2020 | WhatCulture
Yuengling Hershey’s Chocolate Porter Is Too Much of a Good Thing
November 25, 2020 | October
5 Reasons The Undertaker’s WWE Retirement Will Stick (& 5 Reasons It Won’t)
November 24, 2020 | WhatCulture
Outer Range Final Summit Is a Farmhouse Ale of the Future
November 23, 2020 | October
10 Wrestlers Who Appeared In Recent TV Shows You Probably Missed
November 22, 2020 | WhatCulture
Lamplighter Strega Nona Is Some Kind of Witchcraft
November 16, 2020 | October
Surreal’s Milkshake IPA Takes the Booze Out of a Bold Beer Style
November 12, 2020 | October
Humble Forager’s Elevated Perspective Goes Rogue in Pursuit of Perfection
November 10, 2020 | October
What We Do in the Shadows’ Matt Berry Will Have a Guinness for Lunch
November 6, 2020 | October
Baja Brewing’s Escorpion Negro Is a Better Modelo Negra
November 5, 2020 | October
The Dark Stuff Is a Cozy Hoodie in Beer Form
November 2, 2020 | October
Harpoon Dunkin’ Pumpkin Is Everything You Love About Pumpkin Spice Lattes
October 30, 2020 | October
Junkyard Double Barrel-Aged King Size Is No Tricks, All Treat
October 28, 2020 | October
Picked to Click: Harper’s Jar
October 21, 2020 | City Pages
Lazy Magnolia’s Vanilla Pecan Is a Sweet Surprise
October 1, 2020 | October
Minnesota’s 40 best beers
September 23, 2020 | City Pages
Never Tell Is Too Good to Keep Secret
September 16, 2020 | October
Fair State becomes America’s first union microbrewery
September 10, 2020 | October
Elysian’s Dayglow IPA Is Sensory Overload (in a Good Way)
September 3, 2020 | October
What Does Surly’s Closure Mean for Craft Beer Unions?
September 3, 2020 | October
Insight’s Old One-Eye Is a Beer of the Gods
August 24, 2020 | October
Meet the Grapefruit LaCroix of Beers
August 17, 2020 | October
Top Outdoor Dining Restaurants 2020: Dog-Friendly
August 13, 2020 | Minnesota Monthly
Why Hard Kombucha Isn’t the Next Hard Seltzer
August 11, 2020 | October
Magic Hat #9’s Greatest Trick Is Its Staying Power
August 3, 2020 | October
Blue Moon Takes Its Belgian Witbier to New Heights With LightSky
July 13, 2020 | October
Go Nuts for Indeed’s Pistachio Cream Ale
June 4, 2020 | October
Minneapolis Breweries Show Solidarity With Protests
June 2, 2020 | October
Ommegang Idyll Days Is the Perfect Beer for Doing Absolutely Nothing
June 1, 2020 | October
Crooked Stave Sour Rosé Is a Guiltless Pleasure
May 25, 2020 | October
Give Pabst Another Blue Ribbon for Hard Coffee
May 20, 2020 | October
Hairless Dog’s Nonalcoholic IPA Is the Best of Breed
May 13, 2020 | October
Lakefront’s New Grist Sets the Standard for Gluten-Free Beers
May 5, 2020 | October
Bell’s Light Hearted Is the Quintessential Low-Cal IPA
April 28, 2020 | October
O’so Hop Debacle Is an Unexpected Masterpiece
April 23, 2020 | October
A Brief History of Putting Raw Eggs in Beer
April 22, 2020 | October
Stillwater’s General Gose Won’t Replace Your Takeout Order
April 22, 2020 | October
I spent my quarantine homebrewing awful beer
April 22, 2020 | City Pages
Able BLK WLF Is a Devious Beast
April 20, 2020 | October
Fulton Hopped! Is for the Hard Seltzer Hater
April 15, 2020 | October
Offshoot’s Relax [It’s Just a Hazy IPA] Is Exactly That
April 14, 2020 | October
The Masshole’s guide to Dunkin’ Donuts
March 25, 2020 | City Pages
Minnesota history, arcade ragers, and chicken nugget dinners in this week’s Top 5 MN music videos
March 24, 2020 | City Pages
St. Paddy’s hangover miracle cure: Whiskey Barrel Coffee
March 17, 2020 | Boston.com
Local Suds: 5 Minnesota beers to drink in quarantine in March 2020
March 17, 2020 | City Pages
Vintage cities, bathrobe resplendence, and small-town poetry in this week’s Top 5 MN music videos
March 17, 2020 | City Pages
Laundry funk, angry saviors, and Russian subversion in this week’s Top 5 MN music videos
March 10, 2020 | City Pages
F1RST Wrestling heads to Rosedale Mall for a ‘Nitro’ at MOA-inspired event
March 3, 2020 | City Pages
Astral projection, Hmonglish, and small-town Cyprus in this week’s Top 5 MN music videos
March 3, 2020 | City Pages
ONE Fermentary & Taproom Reinvents the Craft—and Culture—of Beer
February 27, 2020 | Minnesota Monthly
Gecs, ranked
February 27, 2020 | City Pages
Tributes to pizza and Peter Gabriel in this week’s Top 5 MN music videos
February 25, 2020 | City Pages
Ben Noble wants you to come on and feel the anxiety
February 19, 2020 | City Pages
Crew love, dancing silhouettes, and ruined weddings in this week’s Top 5 MN music videos
February 18, 2020 | City Pages
Shudder, mortals: There’s a hard seltzer festival coming to Minneapolis
February 13, 2020 | City Pages
Everything Sucks in the Future
February 12, 2020 | City Pages
Piano demolition, Twitter hookups, and slam dunks in this week’s Top 5 MN music videos
February 11, 2020 | City Pages
Ka Lia Universe and a new vanguard of Hmong musicians look to go mainstream
February 5, 2020 | City Pages
Ice-cave love, wild elk, and deadly technology in this week’s Top 5 MN music videos
February 4, 2020 | City Pages
10 Minnesota music acts poised to pop in 2020
January 29, 2020 | City Pages
Bored ghouls, melancholy acrobatics, and abstract pastels in this week’s Top 5 MN music videos
January 28, 2020 | City Pages
Street loyalty, speakeasy liaisons, and murderous creeps in this week’s Top 5 MN music videos
January 21, 2020 | City Pages
Reasons to Love a Frozen Lake Minnetonka
January 17, 2020 | Minnesota Monthly
Poet Jenessa Andrea survived so that she could live
January 16, 2020 | City Pages
A List: Jenessa Andrea
January 15, 2020 | City Pages
Partition queers cowboy culture and Catholicism on ‘Prodigal Gun’
January 15, 2020 | City Pages
TV madness, family photos, and Kirk Cousins redemption in this week’s Top 5 MN music videos
January 14, 2020 | City Pages
Spotted Cow Is Great, But Moon Man Is Better
January 8, 2020 | October
Passing visions, mirror tricks, and Power Wheels steez in this week’s Top 5 MN music videos
January 7, 2020 | City Pages