
30 Minutes With: Andrew Skurka
The summer before his senior year at Duke University, Andrew Skurka thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, his first ever backpacking trip, alone and in only 95 days (that’s 23 miles a day). He had caught the bug.
J. Travis Smith is a freelance writer and longtime friend of Gear Patrol. He began his writing career as the sixth hire at GP and has spent the last decade writing about food, drink and travel for product-focused publications like GP, GQ and Hop Culture, a craft beer publication that he co-founded in NYC. He now lives in Boston, where you can find him running long miles, drinking chilled beaujolais and attempting to grow tomatoes in his garden.
The summer before his senior year at Duke University, Andrew Skurka thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, his first ever backpacking trip, alone and in only 95 days (that’s 23 miles a day). He had caught the bug.
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The battle of the lights: Bud, Corona, Natural, Busch, Coors, Keystone, Michelob, Miller.
We explore drinking culture from around the world to bring you the best five customs and oddities we could find — from beer-chugging Prime Ministers, to drinking and driving (don’t do it), to the biggest party in Iceland and more.
We kick off the Mass Market Beer Tournament with the Domestic Division.
We got down from our high horse, if only for a second, to judge the best of the generic, watery and cheap mass market beers. How exactly?
You’ve seen him. “That guy”, who tries to hit the cue ball as hard as he can, only to send it directly into the corner pocket.
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