See you in 2010, but since you stopped by I’ll leave you with a few beery links. I had planned to riff a bit on “world classic” and “world class” beers, but that’s going to have to wait until a few days into the New Year. I decided to give my brain an early Christmas [...]

In the course of six revisions after his first Pocket Guide to Beer Michael Jackson elevated (and sometimes later demoted) only 20 beers to “world classic” status. He didn’t use the term casually. As Alan fairly points out this was the opinion of but one man. One more qualified to comment than any, but just [...]

Before we discuss Michael Jackson’s predictions about American beers and “tomorrow’s classics” how about a recap of how he rated “world classics” for 18 years? Andy’s pondering sent me flipping through seven editions of Jackson’s Pocket Guide to Beer. After considering the concept of “classics” maybe we need to return to the topic of “world [...]

This email arrived about the time the European Beer Star award winners were announced and various discussions about innovation broke out. At what point does a brewery become World Class? If you win a gold medal at the GABF does that make you a World Class Brewery? World Class Brewer (the dude or dudette)? Or [...]

One more last beer gift suggestion, at least until I remember something else. You can download Beer Lover’s Britain for £5.99. Jeff Evans includes all the vital information you’d expect but also address the questions you really want answers to. Should there be a head on my pint? Is it in the right glass? Is [...]

A British pub is hosting a hymn and beer night with the help of a local church. As well as pub customers and members of the congregation the Salvation Army also joined in the festivities. Ron Pattison is offering some of his collected works for sale in hard copy of downloadable form. I can speak [...]

The United States was not exactly a beer drinking nation in 1810. According to American Breweries II per capita consumption amounted to less than one gallon per man, woman and child. The number grew to about 20 gallons shortly before Prohibition and amounts to 21-plus gallons today. Or roughly 81.6 liters, compared to 157 liters [...]

No matter how long I think about a story or how many times I might rewrite sections I know when I look at it in print that I’ll realize I could have or should have written some part more clearly. Case in point, an article in the current issue of All About Beer magazine headlined [...]

Nothing like a few words about beer to jump start your brain on a Monday morning, right? Short read, because this news is so 2005. CNN Money/Fortune just discovered Pabst is a hipster beer. If you do want to spend more time with “retro beer” I’d suggest the article Don Russell wrote last year. Longer [...]

Naked Pint authors Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune will host The Session #35: New Beer’s Resolutions (sorry, Mr. B) on New Year’s Day. So we want to know what was your best and worst of beer for 2009? What beer mistakes did you make? What beer resolutions do you have for 2010? What are your [...]