FrankenBrew: How to Build a Micro-Brewery, is now available on DVD. I haven’t seen this video, assembled in 1995, in some time and fully expect it will be dated. In a good way. Tom Hennessy, one of the founders of Il Vicino in Albuquerque, put it together, featuring New Mexico microbreweries that were small and [...]

Too much time on the road? I thought I posted this and some other bid of news last week, but just found it in my draft cue. With a few revisions, because Jonathan moved to quickly to get the Google group going, here’s the top item. The others also need a little updating, perhaps later [...]

Do you think you know where in the beer world this photo was taken? If you’ve been there and see a bartender pour beers for this sample tray and deliver it to a table you should remember. In case you aren’t familiar with this almost weekly feature, here’s the background. It’s not a contest to [...]

Can I plead a dog lapped up my beer homework? I just plain missed The Session #21 and the obviously provocative topic: Name you favorite beer. I was prepared to pick that magic, but now I don’t have to because Friday came and went while I was tracking down still more Italian small-batch beers in [...]

We’re far enough south in Italy right now that we’ve spotted the water buffalo responsible for Buffalo Mozarrella. I’ve learned that Italy grows 300 different kinds of chestnuts and that Italian brewers make at least 40 different chestnut beers. More later, but if you need to read more about Italian beer now, check out Evan [...]