Julie Bradford

July 1, 2007 | Book Reviews

The Beer Guide

When it comes to selecting restaurants, do you go with Michelin or Zagats? If you’re visiting New York, do you consult Eric Asimov or explore on-line? Do you insist that your wine pass muster with Robert Parker, or do you ...

March 1, 2006 | Book Reviews

Pierre Celis: My Life

Few people can claim to have saved a beer style from extinction. But if the cloudy Belgian wheat beer called “wit” is now a staple of American brewers and brewpubs, and re-established in its homeland, Pierre Celis deserves much of ...

March 1, 2005 | Book Reviews

Books that Writers Read

For this anniversary issue, I decided to set aside the stack of new publications that have arrived, and instead contact the beer writers whose work I regularly read to ask them which books in their own beer libraries they open ...

March 1, 2004 | Learn Beer

The Carb Comparison

Beer—Carbs—Calories—ABV Specialty Beers New Belgium Fat Tire—17.3—165—5.2 Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat—13.6—150—4.5 Sierra Nevada Pale Ale—12—200—5.6 Mainstream Premium Beers Corona Extra—13.9—148—4.9 Heineken—10.6—166—4.9 Beck’s—10—143—5 Budweiser—10.6—143—5 Guinness Draft—10—125—4 Light Beers Michelob Light—11.7—134—4.3 Yuengling Light—10—98—3.8 Sam Adams Light—9.7—124—4.2 Bud Light—6.6—110—4.2 Beck’s Light—6.1—103 Amstel Light—5.3—95—4.2 Coors ...

March 1, 2004 | Learn Beer

Taking the Low-Carb Test

The All About Beer Magazine staff conducted blind tastings of 11 low-carb beers on the market. The tasters found striking differences between the samples. Although one taster confessed “All of these beers are just so thin, I can’t see myself ...

March 1, 2004 | Learn Beer

Drink Beer, Lose Weight? The Low-Carb Phenomenon

When it comes to spotting trends, I have a secret tool not available to big-time market forecasters. As the editor of All About Beer Magazine and its related website, I answer the random beer questions that web-surfers type into the ...

January 1, 2004 | Book Reviews

The Speakeasies of 1932

For 75 years, we saw the New York stage through Al Hirschfeld’s eyes. His fluid pen-and-ink caricatures captured the essence of a performance with a style that was unmistakable: elegant, stylish, witty but never cruel. In the theatre pages of ...