This was just too funny, and the timing is too good, not to point you to. SevenPack.net offers a most amusing review of Miller Lite. Only in part (because you should go read the rest): It smells of a skunk that fell in a pile of hops and tried to clean up using my roommate’s [...]

In this corner we have Stephen Beaumont, pointing out to us the affordable pleasures of beer. (Noted earlier in the day.) In this corner we have Mike Seate of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review telling us that Beer snobs forget the true meaning of beer. He writes about how expensive beer he finds beer in some Pittsburgh [...]

Gee, I wish I’d thought of this idea. The February issue of Food & Wine magazine has an article telling you how to “Become a Wine Expert in 28 Days.” Stephen Beaumont saw this and did the math: Just for fun, I added up the month’s wine costs and found that, not including the Sonoma [...]

When the first round of national enthusiasm for craft beer was reaching its zenith in 1996 things were just starting to get going in Southern California. In other words, San Diego was a little behind the curve. But the hits just kept on coming and you certainly wouldn’t say that today. The San Diego Union-Tribune [...]

Interesting story in the Contra Costa mostly about small breweries in the San Francisco Bay Area. The headline: “Craft brewers hit bottleneck: Costs cap output, stifle growth for smaller businesses.” Kind of the other side of the feel-good stories craft beer has enjoyed of late. Although the sector still is growing by volume, the pace [...]

- They take naming beers seriously at Flossmoor Station. – A here’s a look around the Port/Lost Abbey brewery. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to taste some of what is going on in those barrels. – More beer predictions. He’s right about the “X” beers. When you hang out in our niche [...]

Here’s another prediction for 2007 I should have made: Vintage beers will command more attention. Item 1: Liquid Solutions, which sells beer through the mail and from its Oregon City store, plans to begin auctioning vintage beers next week (Jan. 19). First up are a bottle of Chimay Grand Reserver from 1994, a six-year vertical [...]

In a weak moment while responding to Lew Bryson’s comment in the X Beer discussion I seem to have promised to write something nice about helles. Not tough duty. I warmed to the task by drinking a glass of Class VI Golden Lager from Chama River Brewing in Albuquerque. It’s almost always the first beer [...]

And so it has been written many times: Beer drinkers don’t spit. As opposed to wine tasters. Michael Steinberger of Slate provides a primer on “How to spit with the wine pros” that should make you happy to be a beer drinker. There’s more to it than you might think, and maybe want to know, [...]

This really isn’t another beer & wine post, but we have to start with a little wine research. The Economist carried a report a while back pointing out that the relationship between the price of a bottle of wine and its taste is weak, according to two studies in the Journal of Wine Economics. In [...]