Craft beer news that actually matters, filtered through a snob’s eye and a sense of humor.
Science can make a whole lot of things better. Why shouldn’t beer be one of them? As Popular Mechanics reports, the Yeast 2.0 project has designed and written…
Highly amusing (and highly vulgar) blog Don’t Drink Beer has a great satirical piece on gimmicky ingredients. “Yeah, I heard about this irrelevant shitwater that…
Brewers Association has the straight dope. First, the prices for hops are pretty much in line with the US crop sector generally (prices to growers,…
All About Beer has a short piece about the history (and outlook) of a quintessential British barley malt: Marris Otter. “It seems to have more…
Craftbeer.com has a great write-up explaining the history of Oktoberfest styles and medal-winners in each of the categories. Simply put, American Oktoberfest styles do not…
Underage drinking has hit an historic low. MTF discovered that the 30-day prevalence of alcohol use declined in all three grades in 2013, dropping 0.8,…
BBC has a good historical write-up on a uniquely Icelandic phenomenon. Real beer was largely off-limits until March 1st 1989. A century ago, Iceland…
BeerGraphs lists all the salient points in this case and tries to be nice about it. But doesn’t everyone do this? Your Mercedes dealer isn’t required…
Ever wondered why you had to pay so much for a bottle, or have never even been able to find one? MLive.com (Michigan’s statewide news…
If you don’t know about Wesvleteren (one of the most coveted and delicious brands in the world), then this is as good a read as…
