All About Beer died as a print magazine a couple years back. Today I learned that the archives have vanished from the internet. It’s a huge loss of the beer world, and one we’ll never get back.
Read More
The site is being updated; no cause for alarm. I’m going to introduce a new element or two as well, so look for that. Part of it involves you! In the meantime, don’t mind the site’s transformation. It may bounce around a bit, but everything should function normally.
Read More
Hearty thinking on a chilly morning. Why do we think beers with dark malts are “warming,” and have we slowly, sneakily replaced the standard 12-ounce can with pints?
Read MoreThe Covid pandemic has forced breweries to change the beers they brew, how they market and sell those beers, and how customers find them. How will these changes affect beer long-term in a post-Covid world?
Read More
On this awards weekend, we can celebrate some of the best beer and writing of the past year. Congrats to all the winners of the GABF and North American Guild of Beer Writers.
Read More
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is the most important beer brewed in the United States, and possibly the most important beer brewed since Josef Groll made a pale lager in 1842. This is its story.
Read More
Checking in on breweries as winter approaches. Up today, Matt Van Wyk of Alesong Brewing and Lisa Allen of Heater Allen.
Read More
One brewery accounted for three of the best fresh hop beers I had this year, including the very best example. What’s StormBreaker’s secret?
Read More
There was a time, as hard as it is to believe, when chemical companies took out ads in consumer magazines to brag about the petrochemical layers they applied to beer cans.
Read More
I recently spoke with Brooklyn brewmaster Garrett Oliver about his latest project, the Michael Jackson Foundation. He offers one of the best descriptions of the way racial inequities are created and sustained—even by people who want them to change—and what we can do.
Read More