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Brian's Belly is a beer and recipe website for the man who likes to sit, drink and eat. They serve cold beer, hot recipes and great food- all with a biting attitude. Brian's Belly: Eat, Drink & Be Heavy.
Friends of the Buddies
You can never have too many buddies... but you can have too many for one page, so be sure to see The Rest of the Buddies.
Great beer and BBQ were meant to be enjoyed together. Welcome to the brand new Spanky's BBQ, offering handcrafted Heartland microbrew beers on tap, and the best smoked BBQ in NYC. Spanky's is located just off Times Square on W. 43rd Street.
RateBeer is a Web site for craft beer enthusiasts and is dedicated to serving the entire craft beer community through beer education, promotion and outreach. RateBeer was founded as a forum for beer lovers to come together and share their opinions of beer and breweries.
J. Scott Wilson is the food editor over at The San Diego Channel.com. Aside from having a great job writing about food all day long, he also handles The Weird Chronicles and writes a column about his journey into thin-dom called Diary of a Fat Man as he tries to get down from his Jan 30, 2004 weight of 470.2 pounds. Yes, that's pounds... and he's well aware that it is "the kind of number associated with those pathetic creatures on talk shows who can't get out of bed without assistance." Visit J. Scott Wilson.
Food Network favorite Alton Brown began his career as a cameraman and learned quickly that most of the food shows served up on television are boring, boring, boring. Good Eats, his own half-hour show, is as splashy as his sport shirts, blending common sense, cooking wisdom, with sprinkles of spicy irreverence.
Be sure to read Belly Buddy David Lauterbach's interview with Alton Brown.
Happy Fat Man celebrates a laid back outlook on life. Relax and check out their sweatshirts, polos and tees in sizes up to 6XL! There is a Happy Fat Man inside of each and every one of us, some people just happen to look like one too.
Even the average Joe needs a place to go. DailyBurn.com was created because funny things happen to average people in their daily life. Stop in to catch up on the things that nobody else pays much attention to.
A site for people looking for a little more from fast food. The goal of Fast Food Fever is to create exciting cuisine from the same old boring fast food you cram into your gut everyday
KegWorks.com was created to provide draft beer dispensing equipment and compact refrigeration to home owners. KegWorks has grown to also include bar top accessories, beer clothing and numerous other related items. Be sure to visit our fellow NY buddies from "upstate." KegWorks.com.
The shelves of the Tabascco Country Store hold every little Tabasco thing your heart desires. Golf shirts, t-shirts, chili, snacks, drinks and of course, HOT PEPPER SAUCE.
Cooking.com offers a pretty big selection of decent products for the kitchen. We're partial to their wide assortment of cutlery, an outdoor living section and a new area of their site devoted to grilling.
Firebreath.com is a virtual internet-only "retail store" selling hot sauce, salsa and chile pepper related products. Stop by for some inexpensive fun with chile peppers and other hot stuff. "The Dragon" at Firebreath was nice enough to send us a few of his fiery recipes and you can find them all here.
BeerCook.com because beer is food: in cooking, at the table, and by the glass. Visit the website of Cooking With Beer author Lucy Saunders for recipes on cooking and grilling with beer...and don't miss the Brian's Belly profile!
The Brew Guild is a crossroads for the brewery and beer-related merchandise that allow beer enthusiasts everywhere to proclaim their passion proudly. They offer an ever-growing array of quality apparel and fine glassware, from craft brewers who create beers the way they were meant to be.
Modern Drunkard Magazine has drinking games, booze news and all kinds of wino wisdom. Available in print and online (but we only link to the online version).
All About Beer Online is the web counterpart to All About Beer Magazine which has been informing readers about beer since 1978. Stop by to read selected articles from the publication and sign up for a free issue.
Hilo Hattie has just about the best bunch of Hawaiian shirts we can find online... and at really great prices. Most of their shirts are about $29 and we're talking about a 100% cotton cover for your man-teats in sizes up to 5XL. Some call them beautiful, some call them ugly... we call them daily wear.
Got Beer? Michael Jackson at RealBeer.com does. No not the freak with the glove/monkey/little boys... the dude with the beer club. Michael is one of these guys that is, in a word, a God. A man who has spent his entire life in the pursuit of the best beer in the world... tasting, sampling, and getting loaded on brew and making money while doing it, has earned our beer of approval.
From your freezer to your table... there is no easier way to serve great meals in minutes. ALaZing will deliver a complete meal to your door or couch. ALaZing is an offshoot of Omaha Steaks, so you know that the meats used will be top notch.
The U.S. Beer Drinking Team (USBDT) is the first team dedicated to the millions of passionate beer drinkers in the United States. If you enjoy the passions that accompany beer: life, family, friends, laughter and good times, then the USBDT is the team for you!
You can never have too many buddies... but you can have too many for one page, so be sure to see The Rest of the Buddies.
Contributing Buddies
Beer Belly Brew Master Rob Lieblein Probably the very first microbrew that most of the Belly members were ever privy to was a dark, delicious brew called Outhouse. But after some financial setbacks (gambling problems) and equipment trouble (ex-wife got the still) the taste and aroma of Rob's Outhouse still lingers on in our mouths and in our memories.
Lucky for us (and you) we were able to snatch Brew Master Rob to head up our Beer Belly. Don't hold the fact that he's a vegetarian against him... he can still drink you douchebags under the table.
Mark likes chatting and writing about beer almost as much as he likes drinking it and brewing it. When something is boiling in his backyard brewery, the dark steam clouds almost certainly promise a storm of very big and very black beers.
Mark is certified as a beer judge by the BJCP and is also the co-author of three homebrewing books, published by Storey Publications of Pownal, Vermont, and available through bookstores everywhere and the links below. Mark has also written several articles about beer and breweries for various publications, and is a contributing editor to the "Encyclopedia of Beer" (Henry Holt Publishing, New York).
John is a regular guy. He has a regular wife, a regular dog & a regular house in the suburbs. That's why John is an alcoholic. But this does not effect his ability to amaze us with some wonderful dishes... in fact he makes all of them with one thing in mind... what he's going to drink with it. We're lucky enough that he also passes his thirst quenching thoughts along to us in his recipes.
In spite of wanting to "get the hell out of the house sometimes before I put a bullet in my head," John is a kitchen cook, so you won't find any barbecues in his repertoire.
Mike likes his hot sauce, and it shows in his chili recipe. Some of Mike's recipes require a bit of your time, but he paces you out with beer so you never really feel like you're wasting your time cooking when you could be drinking.
Speaking of potato salad, you've got to try Mike's... as near as we can tell from the recipes' intro, years of inbreeding in his family has served to enhance this generational hand me down.
And remember, potato salad is the only salad officially recognized by Brian's Belly.
James lives in Manhattan, where he is editor-in-chief of a national men's magazine. He has written many essays, short stories and poems, all of which have been rejected by the finest magazines. He can be contacted at his web site www.evil-g.com.
Other contributors to the site include Ed McShea, Danny Lauterbach, Scott Doherty, Scott Stout, Frank Murphy, Ceylon Blackwell, and Ted Alexandro.
Other Buddies
Kevin King Do you love the booze? They say write what you know, so Kevin bases his whole stand up act on getting shitfaced. Mix a drunken comedian with low-brow humor and you've got yourself a show. Check out lovethebooze.com.
Ted Alexandro The website for stand up comedian Ted Alexandro. This dude has been on all the shows you love to watch... Conan, Jay, Dave and Craig. Plus check out his venture into squigglevision and watch his Dr.Katz appearance on tedalexandro.com.
technicalvirgin.com A site that parodies the teen abstinence movement and skewers the Religious Right with a fake commercial that tells teenage girls to... well, you just have to see this to believe it. We sure didn't. technicalvirgin.com.
Tony Daniel No, not C-3PO... a science fiction (mostly) writer friend of the Belly. You can find some of his work at TonyDaniel.com. Drop him a note and tell him to throw some of that creative writing this way.
You can never have too many buddies... but you can have too many for one page, so be sure to see The Rest of the Buddies.
"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach." -Brian Bailey.
Happy Fat Man
Cooking.com
Firebreath.com
BeerCook.com
The Brew Guild
Modern Drunkard Magazine
Hilo Hattie
