Now the New York Times has written about the city’s first beer sommelier, a already discussed here a couple of months ago.
This will lead to a whole ‘nother round of posts in various blogs, and probably touch upon some more interesting ideas (including still more discussion if sommelier is a wine specific word). I promise […]

We love lambic in our house, yet I suspect I could spend the better part of the day asking others who live in our village about it before I found somebody who knew lambic meant beer.
But, goodness, all the attention it is getting these days could make you think it might be the Next Big […]

What happens when university students use a machine to compete against a panel of wine experts in predicting the price level, region and quality for a number of wines?
Chemie.DE News-Center reports they came quite close to the experts’ judgment, especially when predicting region and quality level for wine at lower prices. Both the panel […]

Here’s another take on why we’re seeing “bolder” (OK bolder might be a little strong) beers from the nation’s larger brewers.
“I think they’ve exhausted [the formula of] ‘How many types of beers can we make that are light and boring?’ ” said Walter Trifari, head of brewing operations for Fordham Brewing in Dover, in a […]

Relative to the ongoing discussion about the need for better vocabulary when tasting beer, an amusing comment from a wine blog. In this case, Mark Fisher asked, “What do you think the best Wine 101 class would include?”
The first reply was this:
I’d like to know if wine critics can really taste “a hint of raspberry […]

Steelhead Brewing Company brewmaster Teri Fahrendorf has wandered into the blogging world as she begins work on the “GOOD BREAD GUIDE - Beer Lover’s Bread Book.”
A few of the basics:
What makes me want to write this book? I love yeast, and I love to experiment with the breads I bake. I love “pushing the […]

Roger Baylor (aka the Potable Curmudgeon) has a much more entertaining take on Miller new ad campaign to position Miller Lite “as a smarter, more intelligent light beer” than previously presented here.
You too should wish you could craft lines such as:
Miller is preparing to tout its eternally insipid Lite with a campaign that exalts […]

Some things are a matter of perspective.
At Wine Sediments, Andrew Barrow asks “Why do newspapers treat wine like poor cousin?”
He’s talking about wine coverage in the UK. On the other hand, during a recent visit to London, Peter Haydon of Meantime Brewing talked about how little coverage beer receives in newspapers despite the fact […]

The tasting of lambics previously promised by the New York Times (free registration) arrived today. Well worth your time.
Discussions about the article already include many more words than are in it. A few:
Burgundian Baggle Belt.
Rate Beer.
Beer Advocate.
At the Babble Belt there’s also side conversation about the use of wine vocabulary in a beer story, and […]

OK, if we’re going to pick on newspapers when they don’t do a great job of reporting about beer, it seems fair to also give credit to ones that do.
Cheers to the StatesmanJournal in Salem, Ore.
Rather than settling for a routine advance on the Blooms & Brews Brewfest, reporter Angela Yeager wrotes a story about […]