Roundtable Discussion | Spookiest Memory from Halloweens Past

Who needs a haunted house? Our PorchDrinking staff prepares to get spooked by remembering some of their scariest memories from Halloweens past.

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PorchDrinking Playlist | Halloween Music (Spooky Scary Edition)

Whether you’ll be throwing a mid-week party or just need some entertainment while warding off pre-teens intent on egging your house, we’ve set up the perfect playlist of Halloween music for you. Ranging from DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince’s A Nightmare On My Street to Psycho Killer by the Talking Heads, our playlist covers just about every genre of music we could fit into a 2 hour run-time. Enjoy! Read More

Welcome to the InterNEAT! Volume 61

Happy Halloween week, everyone! May your costumes be equally spooky and sexy, whether it’s Scar, Hipster Sansa or Banksy. But for reals, if you head to the Pride Lands for Halloween, or just want a hot new T. Sweezy track, you should check out this Dan Chamberlain remix.

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Tour Tasters | Run River North at Avery Brewing Company

Video and Photos Courtesy of Sam Pike.

While craft beer has always been the focal point on Porch Drinking, no porch drink would be complete without the perfect soundtrack to … Read More

Pop Culture Week in Review: 10/18-10/24

 Marvel once again proves they are the coolest, most hip

In addition to the normal, modern mediums, the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ soundtrack will be released on a limited edition … Read More

Roundtable Discussion | Favorite Childhood Birthday Party

In this week’s Roundtable Discussion we asked the PorchDrinking team, “where was your favorite childhood birthday party held?” Be prepared for some serious nostalgia.

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Ultimate 6er | Six Craft Lagers to Trick David Chang

Celebrity chef David Chang set the internet ablaze earlier last week when GQ published his paean to watery industrial pale lagers “My Name is David Chang, and I hate Fancy Beer.” While less incendiary than the title might suggest, the article provoked intense rebuttals from many in the craft beer community including fellow New Yorker Garrett Oliver. Even our own Tristan Chan weighed in on the subject in this week’s Happy Hour post. While I don’t share Chang’s love of crappy beer, I’m sympathetic to his anti-snobbery concerns and can understand wanting light, crisp brews that are refreshing and don’t overwhelm your tastebuds while eating food. I’m sure hordes of beer writers are at this very moment penning intelligent and passionate essays about the many reasons beer pairs better with food than almost any beverage out there–and they’re right–but I doubt Chang will read them. I suggest a more nefarious solution: let’s just trick him.
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PorchDrinking Playlist | Indie Folk

Last week, a friend invited me to see Marketa Irglova, a musician that pleases my folksy proclivities. Known for The Swell Season, as well as her refulgent role in the movie … Read More

Welcome to the InterNEAT! Volume 60

Well, well, well, another Tuesday, another InterNEAT. The sporting world is coming to a head with the start of hockey, basketball AND the World Series. It seemed fitting to dedicate … Read More

I sat through six and a half hours of baseball, and all I got was this crummy Nationals column.

By the 16th inning, I was getting pretty cold.  My wife and I were in the midst of experiencing what was about to become the longest postseason game in baseball … Read More

Pop Culture Week in Review: October 11-17

You know the drill, right? Pop culture surrounds us. And this week was no exception. Let’s jump right in to the week in review, PorchDrinkers! Read More

A Very Pop Culture Halloween

Double, double toil and trouble Halloween is coming up…bubbles!

Ok I’m not the best poet but I am pretty ok at coming up with pop culture inspired Halloween costumes.  Sometimes … Read More

Welcome to the InterNEAT! Volume 59

Happy Thursday, y’all! I hope you are doing well. This week’s InterNEAT is all about improvement. Not just trading out an ice cream for a salad, no. I’m talking about … Read More

Roundtable Discussion | Homecoming

This past weekend was Homecoming Weekend at my alma mater, Ohio University. We may not be big on football, but we are big on fun! Friday night everyone’s just getting into town, so naturally everyone meets at the bars. And I’m talking EVERYONE. There were lines 20-30 people deep just to get in! Even the university’s drumline makes an appearance! Saturday morning the bars open around 7 for kegs & eggs, the parade is at 10 (my favorite part of which is the alumni band pictured above), and then it’s time to tailgate. Or go to the bars. The football game is usually mid-afternoon, and if anyone goes, they pretty much stay until halftime, and then…yep, you guessed it, they go to the bars. Homecoming in Athens is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. People fly in from all over the country, some from all over the world, just to be back here for this one weekend, so I was curious to find out what Homecoming is like at other schools. I think the number of responses I got speaks for itself, but let’s go ahead and see what our staff had to say in this week’s Roundtable Discussion.

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PorchDrinking Playlist | Kele of Bloc Party, New Album: Trick

With the release of his newest album, “Trick,” Kele Okereke surpasses his previously successful stint as a solo artist. Speaking to Billboard, “I feel like you become more confident in every … Read More

DC Homebrewers Hosts Fall Barbecue

If you are a homebrewer in the DC region and you’re aching to exchange recipes and improve your techniques, you need to get in touch with the awesome individuals at … Read More

Event Preview| The Grand Coffee Bazaar

What: The Grand Coffee Bazaar – A coffee-centric event celebrating Denver coffee roasters.
Where: Our Mutual Friend – 2810 Larimer St, Denver, Colorado
When: Sunday, October 19, 2014 – 10am-2pm

We here at PorchDrinking.com believe in all of our libations being well-crafted, and this doesn’t fall short in the AM when we need a quick pick-me-up. Denver is seeing a resurgence of craft coffee and artisan roasters, and we aren’t the only ones taking note. So, it only makes sense that we are getting hella stoked on Denver’s upcoming caffeinated invitational, the Grand Coffee Bazaar. Our down-ass-homies over at Imbibe are throwing this first-of-its-kind event, promising deliciously roasted beans, brews carefully prepared from a variety of mechanisms and methods, brunch foods via food trucks, specialty coffee libations and craft beer.

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Pop Culture Week in Review 10/4 – 10/10

The Flash is a Hit

The CW’s The Flash premiered Tuesday to a sizable audience of 4.5 million viewers and has received praise from critics. The show follows the origins of Barry Allen, better known as the Flash, who received the ability to travel at superhuman speeds after being struck by lightning in his laboratory. While Marvel Comics continues to crank out blockbuster movies based on their characters, DC Comics have recently turned their gaze to the small screen. Arrow, Gotham, The Flash, and Supergirl are all based on DC material and will be available for your viewing pleasure from the comfort of your own home.

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Awesomesauce | Subscription Boxes

We all have those moments when we realize that we’ve turned into a full-fledged adult.  For most of us, it’s the first time we decide that we’d rather not drink Natty Light, or the time when we say “it was a really long week, can we just stay in tonight?” on a Friday at 6pm.  Read More

9 (More) Movies Based on Websites & Apps

It’s no secret that media is moving from so-called “traditional” formats (going to a theater, turning on a television when a program is scheduled to come on, etc) to the web. I’ve talked before about cord-cutters – those of us who don’t have cable because we consume our TV and movies on the Internet. And we’re seeing new content on platforms like FunnyOrDie and Netflix instead of in the theaters.

Well… tables have turned a little bit.

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