The goal is to identify the outlier and explain why it doesn’t belong on the list. There may be more than one answer, although I happen to have a specific one in mind. In this case, it doesn’t matter if the beer is still brewed or what country it is (or was) brewed in. a) [...]

Well into a review of Geroge Taber’s A Toast to Bargain Wines: How innovators, iconoclasts, and winemaking revolutionaries are changing the way the world drinks Mike Veseth at The Wine Economist wonders about what constitutes a bargain. He draws the line at $10, which is a good thing I believe since this allows him room [...]

Look closely at the label for TAPX “Mein Nelson Sauvin” from Private Weissbierbrauerei G. Schneider & Sohn. Those are hops. And the hops that make TAPX something different aren’t from Germany, but from New Zealand. In this video Schneider produced to promote the new beer, available in limited quantities in the U.S. (my local store [...]

You can preorder Food Blogging for Dummies at Amazon.com. It won’t be out until spring, but the Dallas Observer has tips that probably won’t end up in the book.

Alan McLeod begins taking entries today for the 2011 Yuletide (or Xmas) Photo Contest. I’m not sure I have a photo worth entering this year. But perhaps it will snow between now and the deadline, in which case I’ll round up some guys with faces full of character, we’ll set up pub chairs and a [...]

The archives indicate that on Nov. 17, 2005 I posted this: Does it matter where beer is brewed? Yes. At least that’s one of the premises behind Appellation Beer. Some of the others: – It matters what the ingredients are and where they come from. – Wines and cheeses aren’t the only products that can [...]

First the disclaimer. Lew Bryson is a friend. He didn’t send out a press release or otherwise suggest a blog post about “American Beer Blogger.” I post it here because next time I mention Lew’s laugh you’ll know what I’m talking about. Plus I have an observation. The KickStarter information is here and Lew’s explanation [...]

Last week Boak & Bailey offered a list of Ten signs of a craft brewery, interesting in itself and also because of the comments that followed. It got me thinking that “craft beer” can be one of those “you know it when you see it” things. Which is why a snapped this photo Saturday. I [...]

Wendy Littlefield took a few seconds from her busy schedule getting ready for Tuesday’s Coast to Coast Toast to drop me a link to a story about what brewers in Belgium think of AB InBev’s Belgian Beer Cafes OPENING SOON IN AN AMERICAN CITY NEAR YOU! For that I thank her. A few paragraphs into [...]

Let’s cut directly to the press release. The Weeping Radish, North Carolina’s oldest micro brewery, will debut its first beer produced from all locally grown hops and malt. A year ago, the brewery began producing the first beer dry hopped with the first commercially available hops grown at Ecoview Farm in Weaverville, NC. Named IPA [...]