I think the old saying goes that any publicity is good publicity.
So is an article that first appeared at Forbes.com and then go picked up by Yahoo automatically good because it focused on beers that are not industrial lagers?
Spirited debate erupted on several beer discussion boards about just this.
If you pick just one post to [...]

OK, change of plan. Yesterday’s discussion about whether consumers will continue to accept the idea Foster’s is “Australian for beer” when four out of five pints are brewed in the United Kingdom was to be followed with more about the importance of authenticity to both brewers and beer drinkers.
We’ll do that, but instead of starting [...]

The BBC asks a pretty fair question: Is today’s beer all image over reality?
They don’t even touch upon what’s happening in the United States, where the Here’s to Beer campaign continues to broaden - with print advertisements in beer publications, a recent full page ad in USA Today and commercials directed by Spike Lee. All [...]

If you brew beer and you entered that beer in the World Beer Cup competition completed last week in Seattle you hope it did not suffer the same fate as the beer in this picture. That beer is being dumped, eliminated, bumped from the competition. In this case not fatal, because it happened in a [...]

Fine Living Television features the beers and food of Germany this weekend. Germany: Prost! To German Beer! airs first at 10:30 p.m. EST on Friday, and repeats twice.
Schlenkerla Tavern, Heller Brewery and Rauchbier from Bamberg and Beck’s will be highlighted, and the Fine Living website has a recipe for the Bamberg Onion.
Just a thought. [...]

In searching looking for something else before heading to the Craft Brewers Conference today, I ended up reading most of an interview conducted with Saint Arnold Brewing co-founder Brock Wagner more than two years ago. The resulting story was for craft beer industry members, and mostly about business, but this short exchange is relative to [...]

What does the phrase “beer is the new wine” mean?
Using it as a chapter heading in The Big Book of Beer, Adrian-Tierney Jones favors the idea that beer will claim a place at the British dining table where glasses of wine currently reside. Other writers refer to a sense that beer has taken on an [...]

Anheuser-Busch will unveil new advertisements this weekend as part of its “Here’s to Beer” campaign.
This weekend’s ads ask a simple question: With whom would you most like to drink a beer?
In a spot directed by Spike Lee, Lee stars and answers the question himself: Jackie Robinson.
In another ad (also directed by Lee) Michael Imperioli, who [...]