I type Andy Tveekrem is headed home and you know the city. Drum roll, please. The link to the news that includes the answer. It’ll be a new brewery. One of the owners was backpacking in Thailand when he learned Tveekrem would be available and immediately e-mailed his partners. Amazing what happens when you can [...]

If you don’t already think that Conan O’Brien can be brilliant go back and watch Season 4 of The Simpsons. He was the producer for some of the very best episodes. But perhaps the Simpsons aren’t for you . . . and perhaps you’re still pissed off at O’Brien because he twice seemed less than [...]

Need I add more? OK. Beer is food for thought. Beer is food for the soul. But I’d rather keep NEW BEER RULE #10 that simple: Beer is food. (Full disclosure: The idea for this rule was inspired by Alan McLeod’s question — “Why Does That Word ‘Pairing’ Make My Temples Ache?” — in response [...]

Joe Stange has the scoop. Drie Fonteinen to Stop Brewing, Keep Blending, Start Distilling. Go read it at the Thirsty Pilgrim. I’m posting it here simply because Armand Debelder and Drie Fonteinen represent artisanal at its finest, and Joe has the details about how Debelder will keep his beer from changing (much).  

Beer for Chicks has posted the round up for Session #35: New Beer’s Resolutions, a combination of 2009 highlights, occasional lowlights and actual resolutions . . . and already it is time to think about Session #36 on Feb. 5. Because host Tom Cizauskas expects us to take it seriously. The topic: Cask-conditioned ale. Above [...]

British beer writer of the year Pete Brown is giving away the trip to Ceske Budejovice, where Budvar is brewed, he won last month. He’s been twice and figures the trip would not give him as much value as it could someone else. Working in conjunction with Budvar UK and The Publican, we’re launching a [...]

Sometimes it’s not always that easy to walk back into a conversation 10 days later, so let’s clean up a few loose ends from the posts about “world class” and “world classics” and move on to whatever this blog is supposed to be about. The term “world class” is useful mostly to marketers. There is [...]

Questions to consider on a Monday morning: Is there life after beer blogging? What trend did Rock Art Brewery set? Jeff Bell authored The Last Post at Stonch’s Beer Blog yesterday. As you can see from the comments that follow he will be missed. Keeping up with UK beer blogs consumes more of my time [...]

This is my contribution to The Session, hosted this month by the Beer Chicks. They gave us many options, since “New Beer’s Resolutions” includes an invitation to “share with us your greats and mistakes of 2009.” I’m keeping my mistakes to myself. I fear enough will be apparent when Brewing with Wheat hits store shelves [...]