Amid the requisite IPAs, the menu offered a pilsner or a vintage 1990s 4.9% brewpub porter. But on that Wednesday, late into ...

We like things, like beer, for its own sake. It’s pretty and tasty and fun. But we care about beer—anything, really—because of its story. In fact, our brains are hardwired to understand the world ...

Andreas Krennmair is doing some amazing historical research about Central European beer, and his latest book Bavarian White ...

If you are a right proper beer sicko, you already know the GABF announced their 2026 slate of winners yesterday. If you were doing something else and missed the news, I have all the news, with special ...

Yesterday afternoon, my phone lit up from non-beer friends. They were all asking if I knew Trap Door Brewing in Vancouver, WA (for those of you outside the region, Vancouver and Portland snuggle up on ...

Humphrey Smith is dead, ending one of the strangest brewing regimes in the world. If you scan the obituaries, you get a sense of his eccentricities, which started with secrecy. None of the obits I’ve ...

Death, they say, has several stages, from the failure of the physical body to, eventually, the passing of the person’s memory. With breweries it is much the same. First goes the corporeal body, the ...

A couple months back, I joined an old friend and some future friends for beers. They were part of the extended Guinness cinematic universe (as am I!—please note that they have been a loyal sponsor and ...

This summer I’ve been seeing a particular beer on quite a few taplists: West Coast pilsner. Whether it is “new” or not depends on what we’re talking about. Hoppy pilsners have been around a long ...

If I'm reading this right, we may have very serious trouble ahead. USA Today is reporting that Congress is looking to raise taxes on alcohol, including what looks like a massive hike on beer: Details ...