The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino laments the death of blogs, which inhabited a lively, lifelike middle ground between social media and online magazines and newspapers. But the story is different for niche fields—like beer. Within our little ecosystem, reports of blogs’ death are greatly exaggerated. 

I have recently complained about the horrors of wax-dipped beer bottles. They have the benefit of signaling that the beer inside is special, but are in other ways terrible. Are there different ways of signaling "specialness?" Why yes, yes there are.

Three recent news stories about light beer, diet soda, and craft beer all conspire to tell an interesting story. Consumer product categories that have been fixed for years may be going obsolete, and that could be bad news even for the products displacing them.

The New York Times' occasional beer critic has managed eleven beer reviews in the past eight years--three of them on sour ales. Last week he posted his first since mid-2016, a piece on brown ales--his second since 2007. Why does the Times treat beer with such disinterest?

Reading the tea leaves, should we take the current trends in brewing, particularly drinker promiscuity, as a danger or a boon to brewers? A few brewers weigh in on that question and, as is so often the case, have interesting perspectives.