Apologies, but I have to point something else out that bugged me watching Beer Wars. When you left the theater did you think that Moonshot was the only beer laced with caffeine? (Excepting the 849 coffee beers out there; mmmm, Meantime Coffee.)
Not true. There’s also MateVeza Yerba Mate gold, and now Yerba Mate IPA. The [...]

Here’s an interesting statistic from the Wine Market Council: 15 percent of Americans drink 91 percent of table wine.
What do you think the numbers are for “craft beer” (however you define it, but let’s not start)?

While others were watching their brackets get busted in overtime Friday evening I was reading “Six Thousand Year of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History.” Why? Because a book about brewing with wheat should include the role wheat has played in various cultures where people drink beer.
It’s not exactly light reading, so maybe I was [...]

Last week during The Symposium for Professional Wine Writers New York Times chief wine critic Eric Asimov called for an end to tasting notes.
At least if I read blogger Alder Yarrow (Vinography) correctly. Yarrow, who is one of my favorite wine writers, nicely recaps Asimov’s presentation called “The Tyranny of the Tasting Note,” mostly [...]

History should not be a moving target, but sometimes it seems awfully hard to pin down.
I was already thinking about this before we visited the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, yesterday. I’ve been sifting through a bunch of stories about Belgian White beers pre-Pierre Celis and many contain altogether different facts.
So two things from [...]

I do like the sound of bottle of beer being uncorked, the pop followed by the lively sound of carbonation, or perhaps . . .
“Oh, bleep, we’ve got a gusher.”
Not to harp on the beer versus wine thing but that’s one thing beer has over wine (Champagne excepted). I thought about this a couple of [...]

New Belgium Brewing and The Climate Conservancy have released a 36-page paper that assesses the carbon footprint of a 6-pack of Fat Tire.
If you are one of those people who flips to the last page of the mystery book, the answer is “3,189 grams of CO2.” The New Belgium blog points out that “in and [...]

Got a caption for this photo of brewing professor/author Charlie Bamforth taken during a food-fashion-themed cookout?
If you can do better than this . . .
“A kiss of tannin; a kiss of hops… brightens, rather than bitters.”
“Both of Charles’ students get an A, for Alcohol.”
. . . then scoot on over to the Cambridge University Press [...]

At the risk of poking the hornet’s nest — I don’t have a category here for “ethics” and not really criticism per se — I must pass along this story. Seems like a better deal than a trip to St. Louis.
From the UK wine magazine Decanter:

Wine magnate Bernard Magrez has outraged a group of journalists [...]

Merlot does not suck.
Oh, sorry, this is a beer blog. But before returning to beery talk this wine fact just in: Merlot made up 20% of the wine purchases made by a group labeled “image seekers,” called that because they like to others to think they know a lot about wine, according to a 18-month [...]