All About Beer Magazine

You’ll know when you see the deliberately blurry illustration of a Mountie on the cover and the publisher’s classification of Cheers! as “humour,” that this is a quirky beer book: part history, part travelogue and part rant. Cheers! is a ...

In 1909 German immigrant Kosmos Spoetzl was hired by a small brewery in Shiner, TX to be head brewer. Five years later, Spoetzl bought the brewery and renamed it Spoetzl Brewing. The brewery survived Prohibition, lack of capital and the ...

In recent years, a group of cocktail lovers have started studying the history and traditions of their favorite drinks. Their goal is to make cocktails beverages that are made from the best ingredients, prepared by experts who have spent years ...

Numbers can be suprising, as in the case of Scotland. Contrary to popular images, the descendants of blue-bottomed Braveheart aren’t any wilder in their drinking habits than their southern neighbors. In fact, in some repsects, the Scottish are considerably more ...

You may have tried some beers from Scotland over the years—the powerfully malty Dark Island from the Orkney Brewery, or the unique range of beers from Heather Ales. Like most beer lovers, after trying these beers, you’re curious about where ...

Jolly Good Ale and Old is the official history of Coopers Brewery, originally published by Wooster/Aussie beer books in 1987 for the brewery’s 125th anniversary and then reissued with an additional chapter on the 1990s. It’s a better-than-average company history ...

Bill Bell, owner of Bell’s Hotel, Melbourne’s only brewpub, inherited the place from his parents, who purchased the pub in 1933. He vividly remembers the bad old days of Australian drinking—when pubs (until the early 1960s) were forced to close ...

Blair Hayden, managing director of Sydney’s Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel, can talk elegantly on all sorts of topics, but what gets him fired up is if you ask him whether or not he’s running Sydney’s oldest pub. At least two ...

Lachlie McOmish, co-owner of Canberra’s Wig and Pen, has one of the more unusual job combinations in the brewing world. When not running a brewpub, he’s an adviser to the Australian Country Party (a rural political party) on transportation issues, ...