No chocolate was harmed in the making of Deth’s Tar, but that hardly seems possible. This bourbon barrel-aged…
Call it the Michelob Ultra effect. More craft breweries are touting their beers that clock in around 100 calories:…
Fall is the best beer-drinking season, hands down. Summer is when beer sales are highest, but for my money, I’ll…
One of the most frustrating aspects of writing about beer is the limitations of beer vocabulary. Terms like “hoppy”…
Almost all the beer drinkers I know, from the casual fans to the brewers themselves, look forward to Sierra Nevada’s…
A few months ago at the Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Festival, I sat in the shade to wolf down some barbecue,…
I can admit when I’m wrong. During The Takeout’s recent fantasy food draft focused on supermarket (i.e. easily…
Visiting Seattle last month reminded me how spoiled the Pacific Northwest is for great beer, and not just of the…
This is the second year Bend, Oregon’s GoodLife Brewing has collaborated with musician G. Love & Special Sauce on a…
“What the shit is a West Coast golden ale?” I said to no one in particular as I inspected a bottle of True Gold. My…
Pale ales, IPAs, and Double IPAs comprise more than 60% of Odell’s year-round beers, which I guess is par for the…
As popular as Mexican beers are here in the States, I haven’t devoted many pixels to them. Modelo is the number two…
I’m encouraged to see that beer, collectively, has stopped debating the “legitimacy” of hazy IPAs. They’re here,…
How is that some people are able to make unremarkable outfits—a pair of blue jeans, a flannel jacket, a gray…
The first time I visited Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing was about 10 years ago. The brewery had only been open a few…
SweetWater’s new Guide Beer lager is like catnip to this river-rafting, Montana-based beer writer. First, it’s a…
During a lengthy chat I had with The Olympic Tavern general manager Zak Rotello for my story on beer loyalty, he…
A great beer is even better if it has a great story, right? Good, because my introduction to Sheridan, Wyoming’s Blac…
All this talk of #FlagshipFebruary and go-to favorite beers got me thinking about some of the classics I’ve…
Imagine how avant-garde a bourbon barrel-aged stout must have seemed in 1997. It’s hard for me—someone whose…