No matter how high gas prices go beer is still more expensive. Just a fact. Not a statement whether that should be considered good or bad, but a reminder the bumper sticker we saw last week claiming “Beer, now cheaper than gas” remains incorrect. Sunday morning, in the northeast reaches of British Columbia where a [...]

Beers from Alaskan Brewing taste like this: And like this: They taste like they are from Alaska, and once you’ve traveled the Alaskan Marine Highway from one port to another you’ll realize that more specifically Alaskan Brewing beers taste of Southeast Alaska. Quite honestly I paused for a moment last week when Alaskan co-founder Geoff [...]

It’s still Monday in Tok, Alaska. I’m not sure why I feel obliged to voice an opinion on the very good chance Inbev will successfully take control of Anheuser-Busch. Back when I was writing a monthly editorial for RBPMail it would have been a must, but now there are how many thousand beer blogs? Even [...]

Flying Dog Ales is reprising its Open Source Beer Project, but in the spirit of Web 2.0 hopes to make the 2008 version better than 2007. Thus the following challenge: “We are looking to expand the Open Source Beer Project into the latest version 1.1 or 2.0. Seeing this is open source we thought we [...]

Don Russell has an excellent little interview with Boston Beer founder Jim Koch today. As well as everything you could want to know about Samuel Adams Light he addresses the matter of rising beer prices. As always, Koch offers some great sound bites: – “But you can’t reduce costs by taking ingredients out. People will [...]

Rob DeNunzio has picked the theme for the 17th gathering of The Session: Drinking anti-seasonally. He writes: “Think of this as the unorthodox cousin of such topics as ‘beer and food’ and ‘beer and music.’ Beer and weather, perhaps? More like beer despite the weather, I guess. Cracking open a Guinness on the beach, finishing [...]

Perhaps you saw this kind of problem when taking tests in your youth. Pick the one of each four that is least like the others. – Geary’s Pale Ale, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Magic Hat #9, Fuller’s London Pride. – New Belgium Blue Paddle Pilsener, Victory Prima Pils, Alaskan Stout, Miller High Life. – Blue [...]

Thomas Vincent has posted the roundup for The Session #16, and as someone who couldn’t follow it “live” as I do most Fridays it turned out to be full of surprises. I expected plenty of words celebrating festivals — which they deserve, because they’ve been a key element in the craft beer renaissance for twenty-plus [...]

This is my contribution the The Session, hosted this month by Thomas Vincent of Geistbear Brewing Blog. The theme is beer festivals, and he’ll have the complete roundup, so start there and click on over to what everybody is writing. Our travels this summer will take us by many spots where you’ll find lovely beer [...]

Our next local beer will be from Alaska. Good deal. We’ve been seeing beer from Alaskan Brewing since we hit Idaho, but it wasn’t the local beer then. Instead we bought an Idaho Riesling (instead of Alaskan Amber) in a gas station — an idea that turned out to be about as good as we [...]