Welcome to Ask Kate About Beer, in which The Takeout’s resident beer expert answers everything you’ve ever wanted to know about beer but were too drunk to ask. Have a question? Shoot it to beer@thetakeout.com.

As school approaches, and I’m searching out orange looseleaf folders at Target and back-to-school outfits at Old Navy, there’s a special sort of dread that usually leads me straight to The Container Store: The return of daily homemade lunches.

When Ruth Parker rolled up to a Taco Bell in Carbondale, Illinois on Tuesday—something she does every Tuesday and Friday—this was waiting for her:

Samantha Bee only gets more fun when she goes off set and on location on Full Frontal, and her journey this week offers a valuable view into how immigrants constitute the backbone of the restaurant industry. Many are undocumented, and sending money back home, so they often do the food-industry jobs no one wants to do…

Cans of wine seem to have an implicit advantage ahead of bottles of wine: lightweight, unbreakable, portable, easy to open. As a result, as Forbes notes, although retail U.S. wine sales were flat between June 2017 and June 2018, “sales of wine in boxes rose by 7 percent and sales of wine in cans jumped a whopping 43…

There’s a Mexican restaurant that served a single taco for $26. If this was a taqueria on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, c’est la vie and whatevs my man, but in fact this taco is was sold in Mexico City, a place where tacos don’t cost $2.60 USD, much less $26.

The source of that food-poisoning outbreak that sickened hundreds of people at a Powell, Ohio Chipotle may have finally been discovered. NPR reports that “Health officials have determined that a type of bacteria found in food left at unsafe temperatures is the cause of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness that…

The Beer Mile World Classic traditionally consists of the following: drink one 12-ounce beer (can or bottle) with at least a 5 percent A.B.V. Then do one lap around a track. Repeat four times. Runners are permitted to drink only in “the transition zone,” and if they ralph, and they might, they’re penalized with an…

The school year got off to a bumpy start in Richmond, Missouri, where Dear Elementary school posted the following new policy on its Facebook page:

Last week, Jeff Sessions visited two Mexican restaurants in Houston, one of which—El Tiempo Cantina—shared a photo of Sessions with an employee, saying it was an “honor” to serve him. Many Houston residents were upset that the restaurant would be honored to serve the man who’s said that the Trump administration’s…

Today is Friday, and it marks the end of another craptastic week. Aretha Franklin is dead. Wildfires continue to rage in California. Then there are the other catastrophes pushed off the front page—300 dead in monsoon!—because so much other catastrophes are happening.

As a child of Seattle, I’m fond of my hometown’s relationship with chicken teriyaki, which is to the Emerald City what cheesesteaks are to Philadelphia and po’boys to New Orleans—a carb-heavy, meat-unabashed, working person’s lunch.

Ben Schwartz is a busy guy. He’s giving cornerstone voice performances in two separate animated series, as Leonardo in Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Dewey in DuckTales—and, he’s quick to note, he’d be thrilled to play “any other blue iconic ’90s character.” Since letting that bon mot fly, he’s also…

Recently we published a story on whether or not you can still use ground beef that has turned brown (TL;DR: Probably, but if it smells bad it’s got to go). A commenter then posted another interesting question in the is-it-okay-to-eat category: How can you tell when blue cheese goes bad? After all, it smells pretty…

It’s the dog days of August; it’s hot; and back-to-school sales are already happening. You’ve likely already taken your vacation, hopefully fulfilled some things on your summer bucket list (water slides, outdoor concert), and frankly, you’re out of energy to do much except hang out on the sofa with some air…