All the best ideas end up with beer. Food bloggers have their own cooking day once a month. Wine bloggers have Wine Blogging Wednesday. It seems that beer bloggers around the world should have something similar. So let’s start one, an event that will occur on the first Friday of every month. It doesn’t have [...]

Nice work by Al at Hop Talk with tips for saving a bit when you buy beer. He starts from a post at the Personal Finance Advice which deals with beer the commodity, and turns it into a discussion about buying the beer we all drink. Might as well start at the top: 1. If [...]

In A New Religion in Mecca: Memoir of a Renegade Brewery in St. Louis, among the many topics Tom Schlafly touches on are workingmen and the image of beer (maybe that’s just one topic). Schlafly, whose Saint Louis Brewery opened as a brewpub in 1991 and grew into a regional brewery, makes a fine point [...]

Jon Abernathy has completed his “50 beers to drink before you die” series at The Brew Site. Why would I mention this given that I’ve already declared the new Ten Best list from Playboy irrelevant to my beer drinking life? I guess I’ve figured out that looking at one person’s opinion is more interesting than [...]

Stephen Beaumont takes the Globe and Mail for its lack of, well, tasting notes in its “tasting notes.” He’s put off by the lack of meaningful descriptors. That Beer Tastes Like What?, he asks at World of Beer. Cutting to the chase: “It would be helpful if on occasion the words printed had at least [...]

My father considered it something of sport to browse through estate sales and see what other people were asking for their “junk” (his word). “I must be worth more than I realized,” he would tell me. “If I could get somebody to buy the junk.” I feel that way sometimes when I look at prices [...]

Playboy magazine has assembled a list of the top 10 American “microbrews.” I don’t have more to say on the subject of such lists than I wrote in September when Men’s Journal published its “25 Best” list. Although I will note I like the MJ list better simply because it had 25 beers, allowing the [...]

Had I made a list of significant beer events in 2006 I surely would have mentioned the arrival of three new glossy magazines, two of them – Draft and Beer Advocate – dedicated to beer and a third – Imbibe – about beer and other drinks. Just a year ago you could find just one, [...]

Speaking of magazines (I’m posting this before the post about Draft but since most people read blogs from top to bottom you’ll likely see this second) … the new All About Beer (March 2007) has a feature about the art of beer. The introduction concludes “the real journey in seeking art can’t be hired out. [...]

A New York Times Dining section tasting panel evaluates brown ales today (registration required). To reference the ongoing discussion we’re not having, they are not ex****e beers. Eric Asimov writes: As with great character actors who are so easy to take for granted, you have to pay close attention to brown ales to appreciate their [...]