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…
San Francisco’s Seven Stills Brewery And Distillery likes a good gimmick. They have an imperial red ale that’s made with “a shitload of Swedish Fish in the barrel.” Another pays tribute to, ah, Twins—the movie, not the baseball team. This whiskey collaboration is calls Four Legs Good and features a pup with angel…
The reward for a Cleveland Browns win this season, if such an event should occur, is Bud Light helping make Cleveland sports fans slightly more insufferable.
Science! Smithsonian reports that archaeologists have found the oldest direct evidence of beer in some ancient clay cups. This discovery is courtesy of a new technique that can tell the difference between compounds in sunscreen and wine—a difficult challenge, apparently. Now those same scientists are trying to brew a…
Beer is quite the hot commodity in Germany, especially in this heatwave-laden summer. German beer is primarily bottled (canned beer is thought to be subpar, even though it’s not), and the country’s billions of bottles are recycled as much as 30 times apiece. But this summer, due to an overabundance of beer drinking…
Drinking beer offers us lots of things: namely deliciousness, and relaxation. But a new beer coming out of Cerne Abbas, a parish in Dorset, England, aims even higher. Combining the superfood of watercress and idolatry of a fertility god, the Daily Echo reports that “Watercress Company has teamed up with the Cerne…
This came out a while ago, but it’s new to me and likely new to a lot of people. Just look at that lady in the GIF above fill those four cups of beer. How?! What is this sorcery? I furiously Googled “beer fill from the bottom holy shit” and found out it’s from this company called—ha!—Bottoms Up. This is their 10th…
What does $50 million get you in the brewing world? A lot. Guinness’ first brewery on America soil since 1954 (the 1954 brewery was a quickly shuttered facility in Long Island City, New York) just opened this week ten miles from Baltimore in Halethorpe, Maryland. It’s touted as one of only two “experimental” Guinness…
Back in September 2017, MillerCoors enthusiastically announced the launch of Two Hats, “a new beer aimed at recruiting tough-to-reach 21- to 24-year-olds.” Ah yes, I thought when I saw that news, millennial beer. (You might counter: Oh yeah, it must be super hard to get 21- to 24-year-olds to drink beer, but…
So many technological developments inspire both amazement and trepidation in me these days that I need to find a portmanteau combining both “whoa” and “um wait hold up just a second.” The latest exhibit: TechCrunch reports Clear, the company you might recognize from airport security lines, has expanded into the…
You’d be hard-pressed to find two breweries with more upstanding legacies than Weihenstephan and Sierra Nevada. Weihenstephan claims the title of the “world’s oldest brewery,” while Sierra Nevada was one of the pioneers of America’s craft beer movement when Ken Grossman founded it in 1980. Now, in 2018, the two…
Hunting for decent beer stock photography is, for me, one of the most frustrating parts of writing about beer. Most of the available beer photos on stock sites look like they came from a mid-’80s encyclopedia entry on Bavaria: pretzels, leiderhosen, frosty mugs, blonde women with their chests out. I’ll finally find a…
Dads endure our good-natured ribbing over their jokes, their bods, their cargo shorts from Costco. But you know what dads get right? Poppin’ open an ice-cold brewski after a hard Monday back at work and kickin’ back in the recliner.
This weekend, a small Indiana brewery was generating tons of buzz in my social media feed—and not in a good way. The brewery-in-planning is called Lakeville Brew Crew, and a South Bend Tribune profile of the business mentioned some of the names of its forthcoming beers: Flint Michigan Tap Water, Black Beer Matters,…
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.
Between my job and my social life, I spend a good chunk of time drinking beer in bars. (I was once part of the team that compiled an annual list of the best beer bars in America. I’ve been around.) Some of the bars I frequent now are self-described craft beer bars, with pages-deep tap lists and special glassware for…
Craft lagers are here in a big way, and I could not be more on board. My fellow drinkers looking to explore the non-ale side of the beer spectrum would be smart to start with a well-constructed helles, like this one from The St. Louis Brewery (which brews under the brand Schlafly). And if you’re already a member of…
The town of Dildo in the Canadian province of Newfoundland shares the plight of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, and Butternuts, New York. But the owners of Dildo Brewing Co., which opens today, embraced the uh, singularity of their location, and didn’t shy away from naming their brewery for its municipality.
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.
