“The average price of a six-pack of Oregon craft beer in Southeast Portland is $8.85. A 22-ounce bomber averages $4.90, and 16 ounces of quality draft beer will typically set you back $4.27.” From the first Portland Beer Price Index posted by It’s Pub Night. The plan is to do this quarterly. Wouldn’t you like [...]

One more thought roused by Mark Dredge’s “New Wave” post. If you lined up a bunch of beers, some of which you might never have tasted, and drank them “blind” could you pick out the brewery they were from? I ask this because Dredge wrote, “each with their own authoritative stamp which makes the drinker [...]

Mark Dredge poses a question at Pencil & Spoon that’s a variation on one discussed at length in American blogs, but adds a new perspective when asking “Are we in a New Wave of brewing?” He starts with film to make his point, specifically the French Nouvelle Vague, quickly moving on to “small groups of [...]

Three days at the Great American Beer Festival last week seemed to last three weeks. So much going on. I learned a ton, but mostly stuff that will influence future posts and work that appears in good old-fashioned print. But then you don’t need me to be telling how wonderful the Pints for Prostates Rare [...]

This question isn’t too tough, since I’ve already mentioned the Great American Beer Festival Beer Mapping Fantasy Draught, but what do these breweries have in common? The Lost Abbey Pizza Port Carlsbad Snake River Brewing Flying Dog Ales Southampton Publick House Saint Arnold Brewing Marble Brewery Il Vicino Brewing Yep, they are members of my [...]

I’m all for perspective, although I expect it to go out the window this weekend in Denver. The Simpsons and Norm Peterson? How much more pop culture can the Great American Beer Festival handle? To keep us on an even keel All About Beer magazine had historian Maureen Ogle pen a piece titled “What Revolution?” [...]

One more quick look into the Great American Beer Festival judging records. I could waste a lot of time in the archives. For instance, I’ve pointed out before that Blind Pig Double IPA and Goose Island Bourbon Barrel Stout both made their first GABF appearance in 1995, laying the groundwork for what are now stand-alone [...]

Not surprisingly, chatter about the Great American Beer Festival runs rampant in the world I occupy, and now particularly on Twitter. Just to be clear, I know full well Denver will not be the center of the beer universe this weekend. There isn’t one. But GABF has my full my attention, and in doing a [...]

Rick Lyke pointed out earlier this week that Amazon is already taking orders for 1,001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die — a book he, I and many others contributed to — although it won’t be available until March. Turns out there are 1,000 beers to try before then. Ben McFarland’s World’s Best Beers: [...]

A company called Novozymes has introduced a new brewing enzyme “capable of working without malt and with barley as the only raw material.” Does that sound like something you want in your beer? Launched at Drinktec (in Germany) this week, Ondeo Pro is marketed as a tool to offer brewers freedom and flexibility than existing [...]