Today at I might have a glass of beer Barm writes, “Blogging about beer, I constantly find myself coming up against things I don’t know.” Make that writing, blogging, reading, the -ing of your choice, spend several years at it and you are left with NEW BEER RULE #9: You cannot know all there is [...]

If you, like I, think fresh Anchor Liberty is still one of the best beers on earth then the announcement that Anchor Brewing has been sold makes a difference on a very personal level. In terms of the Future of Craft Brewing overall? Not so much. Not like it would have between 1965 and 1978, [...]

As soon as the cap came off the top of this bottle of oatmeal stout Saturday during judging for the Enchanted Brewing Challenge the beer ready to come out. Not a gusher . . . just anxious to be judged.

Before moving on to beer-related links here’s one about one of my favorite topics I try not to bore you with too often: the state of journalism. The synopsis: 18 years ago a librarian penned a tongue in cheek “survey” about librarians and sex for a humor column in a library bulletin. Nearly two decades [...]

Inspired (again) by “The 5 Most Boring Topics in all of Beer Journalism” here’s a glimpse at what appeared in three magazines at the end of 1994. I picked 1994 because BeeR the Magazine was new (and not long for this world) and because many the breweries that claim a lot more ink (or bandwidth) [...]

Perhaps it’s because I live in a state where Area 51 is famous, but Category 23 has an ominous ring to it. Particularly when you are asked to judge the category in a homebrew competition. Strange beers, experiments, successful and otherwise. This year the Samuel Adams LongShot American Homebrew Contest is all about Category 23. [...]

“A brewery is no place for a Norwegian with a stainless-steel fetish because you can really blow your bank account.” From Mark Stutrud, founder of Summit Brewing in Minnesota. The Star Tribune article also quotes a 29-year-old grocery warehouse worker who aspires to be a fiction writer. If he’s stretched for cash, he said he’ll [...]

Should Molson Coors have been surprised by the shitstorm that followed the announcement it will launch a clear beer as part of a drive to increase the number of women lager drinkers in the UK? I gotta think they could have been better prepared, but it might have taken supernatural powers to plan for the [...]

Teri Fahrendorf was way ahead of me. While I was wondering why more beer marketers don’t pay attention to Mother’s Day, Fahrendorf — a brewster herself and creator of the Pink Boots Society — was sending a message to the small breweries of America via the Brewers Association Forum, calling for action rather than blogger-like [...]

The first of what will be many email solicitations just arrived suggesting a “beer of the month” club membership makes the Father’s Day present. You know it’s almost time to plant the tomatoes (we can get a late frost in our parts) and brew a wit beer once the “Dads and Grads” promotions begin. But [...]