1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die

If you’ve ever wanted a truly comprehensive world beer guide, your new Bible has arrived. Forget about those books promising dozens, hundreds or even 500 beers – add them all together, and you don’t have nearly as many must-try brews as there are in 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die.

Irish Car Bomb Ice Cream Float

Sadly for some, my days of shooting down alcoholic beverages with the word “bomb” in the name have long since passed. However, I make an exception every year on St. Patrick’s Day with the Irish Car Bomb. There is just something so appealing about Baileys Irish Cream layered over Irish Whisky and dropped into a [...]

Irish Car Bomb Ice Cream Float

Sadly for some, my days of shooting down alcoholic beverages with the word “bomb” in the name have long since passed. However, I make an exception every year on St. Patrick’s Day with the Irish Car Bomb. There is just something so appealing about Baileys Irish Cream layered over Irish Whisky and dropped into a [...]

A Perfect Glass of Beer at Brouwers Cafe

Get served a perfect glass of beer at one of America’s premier beer restaurants, Brouwer’s Cafe, in Seattle.

What the hell is happening in Pennsylvania?

This question is asked mostly with tongue planted firmly in cheek, because unless you don’t actually get out of bed in the morning, and have maintained that routine for a solid week, it’s been tough to miss what has transpired in the Pennsylvania beer world.  I’ve been watching these events transpire with puzzled amusement and [...]

Beer School: I Smell Skunk!

Spring came early to the Northland! Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis was a delightfully sunny 64° degrees, a record and a full 25° above the average for the day. Only slight remnants of black snow remained in the back yard to remind one that it was still winter just a couple of days ago. After months [...]

Green Beer by AB? Brewer announces efforts to clean up production

While reading news about beer, breweries, and St. Patrick’s day, I came across an unusual article about green beer. And I don’t mean the type with food coloring. Apparently, Anheuser-Busch/InBev have announced plans to make their beer “greener” by  reducing water use.

“By the end of 2012, the company plans to whittle down its worldwide water use [...]

Ratebeer.com’s Unofficial Top 10 Beers of Spring

Following up on Steve Koenemann’s recent Beers of Spring article (and the fact that I was biking around in a t-shirt last weekend), it seems an appropriate time to once again plunge into the murky depths of the Ratebeer database and emerge with a corresponding Top 10 Beers list. Here’s to the finest spring seasonals the world has to offer. [...]

A London Drinker

I can’t resist a beer festival. Living near London means that throughout the year I have a good selection of them. The big one is the Great British Beer Festival in August, then there’s the Pigs Ear in December, Battersea in February and the London Drinker in March, plus a number of smaller ones taking [...]

Beers of Spring

All around you can begin to see signs of the impending end of the long Vermont winter. While this has been a comparatively mild winter, by Vermont standards, the cold, the cloudiness and the shorter days wear on you after a few months. Lately we have been experiencing warmer weather (it always amazes [...]