The next several days here will be all mostly about beer books. I’ve got a stack — some from last fall that I didn’t write about because we were out of the country — I should tell you about before the holiday shopping season arrives. In fact, with holiday beers about to arrive in stores [...]

Inspired, at least in part, by BrewDog’s Equity for Punks, Adrian-Tierney Jones has a half dozen questions for us this morning (a.m. in the U.S., that is): I am talking about the sly sense of exclusiveness that is seeping through the world of craft beer. Do you want to be in my gang? Is it [...]

NEW BEER RULE #9: You cannot know all there is to know about beer. It’s fine to give it a shot. But no matter how positive you are about what you think you know there’s always a chance that Martyn Cornell or Ron Pattinson is going to dig up incontestable proof you are totally wrong. [...]

Cheers to the Newark Star-Ledger for featuring Greg Zarcardi and High Point Brewing in Butler, N.J., today. The hook (why he’s getting the attention now) is that Zacardi “was selected to represent the United States this weekend at The Mondial de la Biere Strasbourg-Europe in France where he will speak about the history and evolution [...]

This week a group of scientists reported they’ve discovered how mice taste carbonation. Feel free to wonder why you should care about a bunch of Champagne-swilling mice. Not light reading but the relationship between carbonation and how we perceive sour tastes certainly pertains to beer. – Philadelphia beer writer Don Russell visits Baltimore Beer Week [...]

In 1881, the brewery workmen of Cincinnati drew up a number of demands to be presented to the brewer. These were: 1. A reduction of work day from thirteen to ten and a half-hours. 2. A reduction of Sunday work from eight to four hours. 3. A minimum wage of $60 a month. 4. Freedom [...]

Heineken, which owns Scottish & Newcastle, announced it is closing the brewery that currently brews Newcastle Brown Ale and moving production to Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. Newcastle Brown first went on sale in 1927 and was brewed next to the St. James Park football ground in Newcastle. In fact, brand owners won Protected Geographical Indication status [...]

I wish that I had a link you could click on so you could listen to Greg Noonan talking about starting a brewery in the 1980s. Tom Bedell’s tweet on Sunday was a gut punch: “Bad news–don’t know the details yet, but Greg Noonan, pioneering founder of the Vermont Pub and Brewery in Burlington has [...]

Where’s the best place in the United States to drink beer this week? I’d vote for Baltimore, always an good choice but with Baltimore Beer Week in full swing a rather obvious one. For some reason Baltimore — as well as Washington, D.C. — seems to have been neglected of late. I went looking through [...]

Last week a customer returned a 12-pack of Boulevard Wheat Beer that’s nearly 19 years old to the brewery. The Pitch, a Kansas City food blog, reported: “My office is pretty close to Boulevard and they’re a real admirable company. I just thought they might be interested in having it,” says (Eric) Henry, co-owner of [...]