Or beer and roots music. Or beer and alt.country (“whatever that is,” at the late, great No Depression magazine said on its cove). Truth is we like wine in our family. We like all manner of jazz. Still I was surprised to see Wine and Jazz magazine today at the book store. Turns out it [...]

Just last year in Great Britain, Procter & Gamble argued in court that Pringles are not potato chips (and hence not subject to tax rules) because they do not contain enough potato to have the “essence of potato.” The court rejected the argument. In his new book “How Pleasure Works” author Paul Bloom uses this [...]

So let’s get right to this World Cup football thing. Story in Yahoo! Sports (thanks to Neal Stewart) points out the financial benefits for sports bars and large breweries. This video from Freetail Brewing in San Antonio (which is approaching 50,000 views on YouTube) indicates they are more widespread. My local brewpub (Turtle Mountain Brewing) [...]

Thank you Alder Yarrow, for a post that takes us quite nicely into the weekend. In a wine culture obsessed with the idea of pairing, far too few people talk about the best complement to a nice glass of wine: sex. Yep, I’m thinking beer belongs in this conversation. (As the people filming those commercials [...]

There’s no chance I will ever catch up but meanwhile . . . Zephyr Adventures, which already runs the Wine Bloggers Conference, has announced the long anticipated Beer Bloggers Conference, to be held Nov. 5-7 in Boulder, Colorado. No real agenda yet, just a plan for “150 bloggers and others involved in the world of [...]

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 [...]

Truth is sometimes I turn these lists into a post so I have the links saved for more careful reading later. Why Should Terroir Matter . . . from a speech by Randall Grahm. I don’t care about “saving” high end wines, but thought provoking. I suspect most of the time we should be happy [...]

Robin Goldstein, already adept at raising a ruckus in the wine world, has turned his attention to beer. The Amazon.com description of The Beer Trials, due in April, promises: “With brutally honest ratings and reviews of the 250 most popular beers in the world – both in bottle and on draft – The Beer Trials [...]

I was going to write about brewers as rock stars today but will save that for Monday (something to think about over the weekend, Alan) because there are so many business related stories worth considering. Start by wandering over to the Zythophile and check out a couple of posts about words for beer (here’s the [...]

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 [...]