Headed to Denver for the Great American Beer Festival (tomorrow through Saturday)? The Rocky Mountain News has some beer and pizza tips for you. The Rocky asked chef Jorge de la Torre, dean of culinary education at Johnson & Wales University, to recommend a beer style and brand best suited for complementing the taste of [...]

Today’s Wall Street Journal (sorry, the story is in the subscriber only part of the site) examines the ongoing cutbacks at InBev. The “hook” is that InBev is closing its brewery in Hoegaarden, which has been widely reported. You wouldn’t run out and buy WSJ to learn that, but there’s more to the story: – [...]

Not everybody likes the “Will Blog for Beer” feature in the StatesmanJournal in Salem, Oregon. The blogs author, Dan de Carbonel and Tim Akimoff, found themselves getting a little bit of heat this week. Here’s a letter their editors received: “The promotion of the use of beer and wine, etc., by the newspaper is a [...]

Today a post at Hop Talk begins, “One of the ways American megabrewers distract you from the fact that their beers have no taste is by aggressive, expensive, often imaginative, advertising.” And then points to Barbax Beer Babes, adding “If hot women and beer are inextricably linked in your mind, then this site is for [...]

Full disclosure: I came across link about how to taste beer while reading a blog about baseball (we all have secret vices). It would seem terribly snide to pick at the various nits here, but this “tip” is just plain wrong: Do not taste new beers with food or soon after eating. The lingering flavors [...]

This story was first written as a sidebar for the one archived in The Library about why paying more for beer may benefit us all. Sidebars don’t work all that well in this format, so I’m turning it into a basic post (with a note it was written in the summer of 2005). The idea [...]

Can it be this easy? Move into a new brewhouse, launch a new brand, ship the first batch of what you expect to be the flagship beer and have Men’s Journal – a publication with 640,000 circulation – name it one of the best 25 beers in America. That’s what happened with Lost Abbey Avant [...]

Nice call to action by historian Maureen Ogle, author of Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer, in support of a national museum of brewing. We’re not simply talking about a place with some nifty breweriana on display, but a real museum. Ogle reports the Brewery Collectibles Club of America has taken the first steps [...]

Spotted on a wall in the brewhouse at St. Louis Brewery’s Bottleworks: “Uncle Tupelo rates the beers.” Obviously dated since Uncle Tupelo – born just a few miles away, and across the Mississippi River, in Belleville, Ill. – broke up in 1994. But still fun, and it didn’t hurt that The Band was belting out [...]

The things you come across when looking for something else . . . In this case a “diary entry” from 1996, when we were doing a little field research for Beer Travelers projects: Ephrata, Pa., April 19 The walls of Wahtney’s Inn are fieldstones, and some of the floor and ceiling are from when an [...]