NEW BEER RULE #3: You must drink at least two servings of a beer before you pass judgment on it. I starting writing the rule before this wandering conversation at Seen Through a Glass, but it makes a great point. In the middle there is a discussion about how, or if, drinkers come to appreciate [...]

New research into Britain’s drinking habits finds “Beer is the drink of style and sophistication.” We might as well get the grain-of-salt stuff out of the way first. This research was commissioned by the British Guild of Beer Writers, who have good reason to suggest that newspapers run more stories about beer. And Pete Brown, [...]

Jeff Risley provided the link to this first video during a presentation titled “Electronic Marketing to Your Fan Base” at the Craft Brewers Conference. Then I came across the second – a closeup look at brewmaster John Maier – while viewing it again. Thinking back to Alan’s Do We Love the Beer or Brewer? discussion, [...]

We already know this, but brewing innovation doesn’t stop at the U.S. borders. It isn’t limited to Belgium, or even to such new-ish hotbeds as Denmark and Italy. Evan Rail of the Prague Daily Monitor writes that 10 new Czech microbreweries are due to open this year. He describes some beers I think we want [...]

The Milwaukee Journal reports: Bootie Beer Corp., a Florida company that turned to a Wisconsin brewer to produce its suggestively named beverage, has been getting its posterior kicked. City Brewing produced Bootie Beer under contract for a Florida company, but hasn’t for more than a year (and apparently nobody else has either). This isn’t about [...]

Where is the center of the beer universe? I ask that question because tomorrow I’m headed to Austin, Texas, for the Craft Brewers Conference. Hundreds of brewers will be there, the folks responsible for beers that are getting written about in the Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine magazine, Condè Nast’s new and stylish Portfolio [...]

So would you call Beer & Food: An American History a cookbook or a history book? This question particularly matters to me because we own a few beer related books and I can waste a fair amount of time trying to figure out on which shelf I put whatever one I am looking for. And [...]

In the course of the conversation that sprung from my post about a review of Three Floyds Dreadnaught Imperial IPA I promised to post what I think are interesting style of “tasting note.” Too long for a comment, so – cowboys and others at the bar – here goes. Style 1: The experience Ben McFarland, [...]

Earlier this year Donavan Hall began sort of a running diary – officially an online book right now, with a print version in 2008 – about drinking in a pub he has adopted as his local. He’s accumulated enough posts now that he has a Table of Contents that I can link to, and that [...]

This review of Three Floyds Dreadnaught Imperial IPA tickled the heck out of me. Jay at Hedonist Beer Jive gave it a 3.5 out of 10 and explained why. After reading his comments (please take the time to read the whole thing) my only question would be, “Why so high?” He’s pretty persuasive, writing among [...]