Eric Asimov of the New York Times writes occasionally about beer, though mostly about wine. In his new wine blog he drops in at Cafe D’Alsace, the NYC spot touting its beer sommelier. His description indicates that this could just be a sommelier (remember, wine sommelier is redundant) well versed in beer.
In any event, a […]

This New York Post features Aviram Turgeman, New York’s first beer sommelier.
Cheers to Cafe D’Alsace for showcasing beer as much as wine. “I love beer, and we had a lot of great beers at L’Express (the bistro on Park Avenue South he also owns), but no one knew about them,” said owner Simon Oren.
The restaurant […]

Good Grape - you guessed it, a blog aimed a wine drinkers - credits Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewery with creating the economic theory of “Beneficial Inefficiency.”
The author is moved to ask this question:
Isn’t a really relevant question here, maybe the wineries have it all wrong? Maybe they don’t need to […]

What’s even better than a story about how Australians can trade toads for beer?
One that contains this quote: “It’s all about the toads, not about the beer.”
Isn’t it always all about the toads?

Today is the day everybody - thank goodness, not everybody, but a lot of body - drinks or at least talks about green beer.
Kudos to Wired magazine for writing about the environmentally friendly, if not truly green, beers of Brooklyn Brewery and New Belgium Brewing.
Brooklyn recently followed the lead of New Belgium in committing to […]

Let’s hope that this doesn’t happen with beer.
Bloomberg.com reports that a boom in fine-wine demand means business is booming for wine fund managers. One example of a new fund that is seeking to attract larger institutional investors into the wine industry is the Dumbarton Group’s European Wine Investment Fund.
The New York-based fund is looking […]

The Lexington Herald-Leader profiles the efforts of Tom Griffin to convince microbrewers that they can make great beer with used bourbon barrels from Kentucky.
“We’re selling bourbon country,” he said.
The entire story is worth your time, but make sure to take time to think about Griffin’s idea presented in the last paragraph:

“This is getting to be […]

You may recall that SABMiller CEO Graham Mackay recently discussed how beer consumers in the developing world are “trading up” from lower quality, cheap beer.
Granted, we may be talking apples and oranges when comparing beer in the United States and developing countries, but you still gotta wonder if Norman Adami, president and chief executive of […]

The cover story of February’s Inc. magazine tells us “Small is the New Big,” a phrase that’s been batted around for the last year, meaning small can be part of a successful business model.
Given the recent success of small-batch breweries versus larger mainstream brewers it would seem that idea extends to beer.
Sure enough, the […]

The Potable Curmudgeon Roger Baylor gives us more than one beer to think about when he posts on Schlenkerla Helles Lagerbier.
The beer - just now available in the United States and not well known outside of its Bamberg home - is a delight, brimming with flavor beyond what you’d expect in a 4.3% abv beer, […]