Yesterday I wrote: “and I’m sure that news stories and tributes will appear soon enough elsewhere on the Internet.” Only a bit of an understatement. I have no idea how many billion kilobytes went winging about the Internet yesterday – in blogs, on discussion boards, via e-mail – in which people shared their memories and [...]

There’ll be no blogging here today. Consider it a symbolic moment of silence to honor the memory of Michael Jackson, simply the best writer about beer there ever has been. His death was reported this morning and I’m sure that news stories and tributes will appear soon enough elsewhere on the Internet. You don’t need [...]

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the style pool again . . . Today a press release from Pyramid Brewery announces the introduction of “Imperial Hefeweizen, the first in a line of new limited edition, specialty beers known as Pyramid’s ‘Brewers Reserve.’ ” This on the heals of a loud discussion [...]

One of the many perks – beyond watching a roadrunner pace up and down the burm outside my office window right now, not quite sure what his plan is – of living where I do is that I know that the New Mexico Rio Grande Valley is not the Best.Beer.Region.On.Earth. They worry about such things [...]

Jack Curtin recently reported that Philadephia’s Copa, Too! has closed, and wrote about that restaurant/bar’s place in history. I added a few details at Beer Travelers, but since we seem to have slipped into beer-and-food mode here I’ll use the news as an excuse to post another recipe (a dessert, of course). Tom Peters managed [...]

In Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England Judith Bennett writes that women brewers were so common during the 16th century that in northern England the term brewster was preferred for anybody who made beer, male or female. Over time, brewer won out as a term for both sexes and brewster survived only in limited cases, [...]

If you’ve been following Teri Fahrendorf’s brewery trip across America (and if not, why not?) you know she’s assembling a list of woman brewers. Her focus is the United States, but the news that a woman has become the only head brewer in the north of England seems relevant. Michelle Bright has been promoted to [...]

Flying Dog Brewery, based in Denver, has launched a stand alone site dedicated to beer dinners. It’ll be interesting to follow how this plays out, since right now the information posted is Flying Dog centric. This certainly could be a great resource. There’s a category for promoting dinners, which would allow brewpubs, restaurants and even [...]

The September issue of Portfolio magazine (the same folks behind the website Lew Bryson writes an every-other week column for) has a very disturbing photo. Please do not show it to a beer geek friend until you make sure that a) he or she is on the first floor of the building and b) no [...]

The other day I mentioned Goose Island Cascade Pumpkin Brulee and Eric Trimmer asked for a recipe. Here it is. As already noted, Goose Island brewmaster Greg Hall says to bury the eggs in a container with the Cascade hops, seal, and refrigerate for 3-5 days. Goose Island Brewmaster Greg Hall says that because eggs [...]