Pints with Polk

     A whole year of beer boiled down to ten spots. Just ten moments that lingered in my mind and helped get me through the last 365 days ma...

  Has it already been an entire month? I know time moves faster as you get older, but man, this last 4+ weeks seemed to be gone in a flash....

    I had high hopes earlier this year for a monthly series of posts about the best non-alcoholic beers I had tried in the previous month, b...

  Drinking is personal.   My relationship with alcohol is more complicated than anything else I've encountered in my life, because at th...

                                I woke up this morning, knowing it's been exactly 1 year since the last time I indulged my inner drunk a...

    An appropriate us for my growlers now, I suppose...   I've come to a crossroads in my life and while this particular intersection ma...

   One thing sobriety has taught me is that I am an angry man. Not that I wasn't before, but the booze would give me a sort of freedom t...

    I wrote this back in July. I was in a pretty dark place a the time, it was a bit of that darkness that was driving me at the time. Feeli...

    I often wonder how to rate or judge non-alcoholic beers and then communicate in a way that people who are looking for NA options can und...

   I've been on a lot of beer runs in the last 35 years, maybe just to the Beer Store in the beginning, but after 2015 we stepped it up ...