I glanced at my filled-to-bursting bar cart the other day with a mix of pride and exasperation: I need to clear some surface area on this thing. As I started my visual evaluation—Do I really need five bottles of gin? Yes, I do—I spotted some dustier bottles toward the back that gave me pause. I had an old bottle of…
I know tennis and beer pong aren’t the same, but if you’re a 23-time Grand Slam winner, some skills probably transfer to the pong table. So I would not have wanted to be the person facing off against Serena Williams at the royal wedding after-party, where the star reportedly wiped the floor with her beer-pong…
Craft lagers have been a steadily growing trend for a few years now, but it’s not often you find a pilsner with actual buzz around it. That’s usually reserved for barrel-aged stouts or hazy IPAs or fruited sours—the rare exception is Hood River, Oregon’s pFriem Pilsner, which numerous brewers and beer industry folks…
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.
University of Minnesota researchers recently found that not only are microplastics a part of water from the Great Lakes, the tiny contaminants are showing up in beer brewed with that water. Microplastics are small plastic pieces less than 5 millimeters in length—about the size of a sesame seed—according to the…
Pizza Hut is expanding a pilot program, which was to this point available only in Phoenix, to include 100 additional stores in both Arizona and California. What they’re testing: beer delivery. Per The Daily Meal, “Select six-packs of booze are available for purchase—Coors Light, Blue Moon, and Miller High Life…
As a kid, my brother and I had season passes to Tampa, Florida’s Busch Gardens. My aunt and grandmother lived nearby, and a day at the hybrid theme park-zoo was ingrained in our summer routines. I remember my parents, and sometimes my grandmother, making a point to swing by the theme park’s free beer hut. I didn’t get…
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I write on the internet for a living and barely feel like I have time left at the end of the day to clean my house and maybe walk the dog. How George Washington ran a country and also made time for fun hobbies like homebrewing is totally beyond me. But homebrew he did, and one of his recipes is now the inspiration for…
The beer industry has for years debated whether recreational marijuana cuts into beer sales. When the first states legalized recreational weed—Colorado and Washington, both in 2012—brewers, distributors, and bars wondered whether their customers wouldn’t start to allocate some of their vice budget toward weed instead…
They say everything’s bigger in Texas, but SBG San Antonio reports that this recently announced inaugural 0.5K run is heading the other way. The Facebook event page for the 0.5k run in the town of Boerne is for “underachievers,” described as a “very fun, tongue-in-cheek event that will lampoon the typical 5k.”
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.
Though the American IPA is the style that perhaps best defines the craft beer movement—bold, flavorful, potent—it has its fair share of detractors. I read IPA criticism in the comments on my Beer Of The Week picks; I hear it when I’m out at bars or parties; even my colleague Gwen confessed the other day: “I stopped…
One of my favorite hop-derived flavors is fresh white onions or chives. I know this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but when I can find that flavor alongside some Mosaic- or Citra-hop mango and tropical fruit notes, I do the chef’s kiss move. That combo reminds me of mango salsa, with the heady fruit notes playing…
Pro-wrestling legend Jerry “The King” Lawler has competed in the squared circle in five different decades. He practically put Memphis on the wrestling map and shot to national prominence in 1982 with his “feud” with Andy Kaufman. Much of that longevity, Lawler has said, could be attributed to him not drinking alcohol.…
As an avowed fan of both beer and dairy—yet somehow not a Wisconsin native—I hit the jackpot when I recently discovered research into “dairy beer.” As published in no less a mainstream news source than Dairy Reporter, Cornell University scientists are working on a “beer” made from a by-product of Greek yogurt…
Boston Celtics player Jayson Tatum collided with a beer-holding fan during a Tuesday night playoff game agains the Milwaukee Bucks, and absolutely nothing happened. We have questions.
Breweries love their pop-culture puns, and generally their small-batch, hoppy homages to TV shows or movies or bands exist in the world unchecked. So it’s a notable aberration that Sony this week announced a lawsuit against Auburn, California’s Knee Deep Brewing over its Breaking Bud IPA. The Hollywood Reporter says…
Among the many sacrifices astronauts give up for us by going into space for long stretches of time—saying goodbye to their family and friends, drinking water made from their own urine, extremely bulky outfits—they also have to eat an extremely limited diet. Which so far does not include sweet, sweet alcohol (although…
“Sour beers are a great crossover for wine drinkers” is by now a beer-world cliché, but it can certainly be true in specific cases. Stillwater Artisanal’s eye-catching Hopvine Bling—a dry-hopped Berliner weisse-style beer with sauvignon blanc grapes—is one of those cases. I am aware that the sentence above has a lot…
