Flying Dog Ales – which has more happening on the Internet than any other brewery I know of – has launched its own Open Source Beer Project. The idea is to allow beer drinkers and homebrewers to create or recommend modifications to a Flying Dog recipe. The Open Source Beer Project will start as a [...]

Whether you embrace *xtr*m* beers or not, there’s little argument that Americans’ willingness to try experimental beers has captured the attention of brewers from other countries. Case in point, Roger Protz visits the Nethergate Brewery on England’s Essex-Suffolk border, which has earned its reputation with excellent mild cask ales. What does he find brewer Tom [...]

Don’t forget, next Friday is Session #4 and it’s all about drinking local (or regional, or as local/regional as you can be). (How The Session started.) This will be easier for some than others, but the Brewers Association happily points out the average American lives within 10 miles of a brewery. You probably have seen [...]

As I type this nobody has come up with the starting bid of $1,500 for eight bottles of Ballantine Burton Christmas beer, and it’s not going to be me. Sure, I wish I had a chance to try the beer. It’s intriguing that it would have stood up all these years, but as long as [...]

Well, I guess he first question is if you’d pay $200 for a bottle of beer. That’s because eight bottles of Ballantine Burton Christmas Ale are up for auction at eBay. The starting bid is $1,500 (none as I type), the “buy it now price” is $5,000 and the auction closes May 28. From the [...]

The bill in the Texas Legislature that would allow microbrewers to sell their product on the premises of their breweries appears to be dead. Brock Wagner of Saint Arnold Brewing told the Austin Chronicle: Our bill was opposed by Mike McKinney of the Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas, and with him opposed to it, we [...]

Today’s New York Times features a must-read story on the front of the travel section headlined On a German Beer Trail, One More for the Road. Evan Rail (who recently also wrote about Czech beer innovation) set out with a definite purpose: I wanted to try those German brews that had maintained a sense of [...]

This is beer and food done right, mostly for the food and wine crowd. Maybe precisely for that crowd since it is in the June issue of Food & Wine magazine (the grilling issue). In “The Keg vs. the Cork in Sonoma” chef San Yoon of the Father’s Office in Santa Monica, one of Southern [...]

In all fairness to Todd Haefer – who writes a Beer Man column that appears in many newspapers part of the Gannett chain and already catches enough grief for some of his comments – he didn’t write the headline and the term didn’t appears in his copy, but here it is: Beer Man: New Glarus [...]

So how come we don’t call beer geeks beerworms? Maybe because it sounds gross, but then why doesn’t bookworm? Blame Stone Brewing in California – those otherwise sometime arrogant folks – for this question. Stone next month (June 4) initiates a Book & A Beer Club On the Grass at its modestly named World Bistro [...]