NHL borrows beer-can technology for new color-changing pucks
Items that are better cold: popsicles, hockey pucks, cans of light lager. Now two of those—sorry, popsicles—will begin…
8 holiday beers that don’t taste like a Yankee Candle
Holiday beers needn’t taste like months-old bread pudding or licking a Christmas tree. Traditionally, these year-end…
101-year-old’s secret to longevity: daily 4 p.m. Coors Light
A nightly sip of single-malt whiskey reportedly helped the oldest woman in Great Britain live to 112 years old, and an…
Ask Kate About Beer: I accidentally froze my beer. Is it ruined?
Welcome to Ask Kate About Beer, in which The Takeout’s resident beer expert answers everything you’ve ever wanted to…
Why the accusations against popular brewery Trillium are so scandalous [UPDATED]
Update, December 6: Trillium’s owners, Esther and J.C. Tetreault, yesterday published a second response to the…
Plastic-free six-pack rings to debut on Corona cans
Several breweries have experimented with ways to eliminate plastic six-pack rings in an effort to create more…
Beer Of The Week: New Holland’s Dragon’s Milk Stout gets a refresh
Imagine how avant-garde a bourbon barrel-aged stout must have seemed in 1997. It’s hard for me—someone whose graduation…
Stella Artois wants to turn your robot vacuum into a cocktail waiter
I have spent a lot of time thinking about ways to improve on DJ Roomba. There are the obvious options: put a box on it…
A longtime beer writer quits beer—and we congratulate him
The beer writing world feels like a small one, in a good way. While there is the occasional infighting, rivalry, and…
PBR is no longer in peril! Long live PBR!
Earlier this month, we reported on a contentious lawsuit between Pabst Brewing and MillerCoors that, depending on its…
Beer was cheaper than water at Sunday’s Bengals game
Exact details about the following story are incomplete. But we do know this one crucial truth: At Sunday’s Cincinnati…
Ask Kate About Beer: Which 5 beer styles would you recommend for total newbies?
Welcome to Ask Kate About Beer, in which The Takeout’s resident beer expert answers everything you’ve ever wanted to…
Why hundreds of breweries all plan to make the exact same IPA
Normally, craft brewers focus on differentiation, standing out from the crowd, and brewing beers unlike anyone else’s.…
“Stone Cold” Steve Austin giving up beer would be like Santa giving up Christmas
“Stone Cold” Steve Austin was the most popular professional wrestler in the 1990s, much of that from his reputation as…
Beer Of The Week: Drink this year’s Goose Island Bourbon County Stout right away
Chicago’s Goose Island Beer Company has been brewing Bourbon County Stout since 1995, and I’ve been drinking it since…
Sierra Nevada brewery creates California fire relief fund, owners kick in $100K
California’s two major fires—dubbed Camp Fire and Woolsey Fire—have led to tragic losses of life and property. The…
Utah will start lab testing beers to make sure they’re under 4 percent alcohol
Utah is… not progressive when it comes to its alcohol laws. It has the most restrictive alcohol shipping laws in the…
Fate of PBR hangs in the balance as Pabst sues MillerCoors
The Pabst-MillerCoors lawsuit, which opened in Milwaukee County Circuit Court today, is thrilling only to contracts…
Ask Kate About Beer: What are pastry stouts?
Welcome to Ask Kate About Beer, in which The Takeout’s resident beer expert answers everything you’ve ever wanted to…
America hits record 7,000 breweries—and no, it’s not a bubble
Today, America is home to more breweries than at any other time in its history. Brewers Association, the trade group…