Can we agree to call a beer that actually tastes like one brewed in Leipzig, Germany, and is spelled G-o-s-e a goes-a*? That’s a start. For whatever reason, more than a few American brewers seem fascinated by the beer that was oh, so popular in Leipzig at the beginning of the twentieth century. Its demise, [...]

This story from folk music legend Pete Seeger is a little long to use as a quick introduction to a discussion about reviving defunct beer styles, so his tale today and beer tomorrow. In the foreword to “Singing Out: An Oral History of America’s Folk Music Revivals” Seeger expresses his doubts about revivals. he uses [...]

Lauren Buzzeo of Wine Enthusiast magazine offers “highlights and epiphanies” from the Great American Beer Festival. Jason Jewett, a 27-year-old regular guy in Denver, on volunteering (which still allows for time to walk around and sample). A headline that should make you nervous: “Investors’ Thirst Growing for Craft Beer Stocks.” Is it good for smaller [...]

If I live to be 200 I’m pretty sure I’ll still be thinking bad ideas I’ve never suggested before. For example, the one that I would ask brewers at the Great American Beer Festival this question: “Do you brew beers that are as good at or better than the Europeans have for generations?” (If you’ve [...]

If you aren’t going to be in Houston Oct. 14-16 for Dixie Cup XXVII you can quit reading here. If you are going to be there I hope we get a chance to meet, probably to talk about beer. Although I do carry around family and trip pictures and will spring them without provocation. I’ll [...]

What Three Floyds Brewing had on offer at the Great American Beer Festival.

Perhaps I’m picking a nit, but there’s a difference between being too serious about beer (as Stephen Beaumont points out here, and I must confess happens in these parts) and taking beer seriously. Martyn Cornell illustrates that today when he answers the question, “So what IS the difference between barley wine and old ale?” This [...]

According to Outside magazine, “Like wine, beer mellows with age.”  

“. . . stuck in the timewarp of Tennent’s Lager, Belhaven Best and Guinness.” From a simply brilliant post at I might have a glass of beer. It’s about a pub outside of Glasgow (you know, Scotland), and includes this paragraph (the italics are mine): “It’s a 15 minute train journey and a 20 minute [...]

The following could be considered an advertisement. As a small reward for reading on I’m offering a super secret Great American Beer Festival tip at the end. None of this matters at all if you won’t be in Denver next week for GABF. I’ll be pouring few beers and signing books at GABF. If you [...]