There’s a reason that the Potable Curmudgeon is near the top of the beer links (on the right). Roger Baylor wrote the entry he posted yesterday back in 1998. That’s when he most of his ramblings appeared in the FOSSILS newsletter, a photocopied homebrew club newsletter. It deserved reading more than once then and is [...]

Geez, take a few days to go drink beer with homebrewers (the National Homebrew Conference) and all kinds of interesting discussions break out related to our access to better beer. First there was this: The long tail of the alcohol distribution curve in a business innovation blog. That lead to this interesting post: Did the [...]

My first thought on seeing the headline “Craft Beer Steps Into Wine Country” was that wine country (Northern California) was one of the early beachheads for craft beer. In fact, the story in Advertising Age (warning, sometimes you can link here and later the story will be listed as paid content) the story notes that [...]

What’s it take to brew a beer that wins in the experimental category at the World Beer Cup or Great American Beer Festival? “That experimental category is really, from a brewer’s perspective, the most exciting one to win,” said Chuck Skypeck of the Tennessee-based Boscos brewpub chain. His experimental beers have twice won gold at [...]

More about tradition . . . The headline is a quote from W. Somerset Maugham and the following paragraph from winemaker Annette Hoff: . . . a philosophical struggle I have been dealing with the last few years, and that is the idea that can a wine be made traditionally in modern times? How could [...]

While doing some filing I came across a few notes taking from the Everybody Eats Well in Belgium Cookbook by Ruth Van Waerebeek and Maria Robbins. Quite honestly, the best way for me to keep track of these lovely quotes is to store them here. “Given this bounty of wonderful food, it may surprise you [...]

With the help of Boston Beer founder Jim Koch, BusinessWeek serves up a four-course (five if you count the Samuel Adams Utopias served at the end as a cordial). The story concludes: “Indeed, it was a meal that could convert even the most ardent of oenophiles.” The article appears at the same time as this [...]

Food & Wine magazine gives a nice nod to beer in its current issue (the story even gets promoted on the cover): Great Beer From Around the World Meets its Food Match. The article is pegged to the fact that one of the country’s “genius” chefs – Paul Kahan – plans to open a beer-friendly [...]