Two new rankings are up at Tasting Table. First I reviewed every single McDonald’s burger on the menu, then, like the hungry caterpillar I am, I said, “Nah, that’s not enough,” and continued to eat the rest of the menu, both breakfast and lunch for a final ranking of everything you can order at the … Read more
My new Halloween tradition is ranking every Goose Island BCS Stout, but my new Election Day follow-up (and boy did the nation need a collective drink from that one) is getting to be reviewing the Buffalo Trace Antique collection. This year isn’t my favorite of the three that I’ve tried, but that’s not to say … Read more
As I did in 2022 and again in 2023, I applied my liver to consuming the entire Goose Island Bourbon County Stout LTO release at Tasting Table. Now, don’t think I finished every bottle. They got capped and used up over days to follow. But even a shot of each beer is a long walk; … Read more
Tasting Table tasked me with sampling and ranking every national chain’s wings in anticipation of football Sundays, and I learned two things. The first is often it’s easier to get actual wings at pizza joints than fried chicken specialty chains. The second was that those pizza joints, by and large, don’t know a darn thing … Read more
I’ve loved Colonel Edmund Haynes Taylor whiskey since it was cheap and I was a whiskey idiot. Now it’s expensive and I’m a whiskey idiot, but I can still summon some great reasons why you should get your hands on a bottle of Buffalo Trace’s newest addition to the Taylor family, the Barrel Proof Rye. … Read more
