Lonely Planet’s Global Beer Tour: A Guide to Beer Tasting at the World’s Best Breweries $19.99, Lonely Planet One of the problems with printing a guide book in this day and age (and this comes from the author of two such projects) is that by the time it gets to the public, the world has... View Article
Matt Van Wyk has been brewing for nearly two decades, and always for someone else’s company. Last year he became one of three partners at Alesong Brewing & Blending in Eugene, Oregon. In a recent conversation on “After Two Beers,” a podcast with All About Beer Magazine editor John Holl, Van Wyk talked about the... View Article
Joe Dinan and Lisa McDonald had one goal when moving from Chicago to North Carolina: buy a small farm to rescue and foster animals. Their love for beer and passion for homebrewing didn’t get left behind, though, and it crept into their aspirations. “We talked about opening a brewery, and how cool if would be... View Article
Texas has no shortage of odd liquor laws. Texans have long had to deal with regulations that prohibit alcohol sales on Sunday, spawn hour-long beer runs in the middle of large dry counties and create a jigsaw puzzle of small “wet” and “dry” municipalities overlaying large urban areas. Growing up in Dallas, we learned at... View Article
Last summer, I joined my local homebrew club, Bridger Brew Crew, on our annual camping trip. A mountain stream, clear weather, the backdrop of Montana’s Absaroka Range and the company of fellow homebrewers set the scene for the weekend. In that interim, I also became better acquainted with an ancient and loosely defined beer type... View Article
Politics aside, America is a nation bursting at the seams with people and places—and beers—that make it great. It’s a nation founded on big ideas, big endeavors and big cities (and bigger open prairies, woods and mountain ranges). From the giant redwoods to the Grand Canyon to, uh, the Super Bowl, this is the land... View Article
150 Years of Canadian Beer Labels By Lawrence C. Sherk $29.95, TouchWood Editions A coffee-table-worthy picture book that contains the collection of a serious breweriana collector. It starts in the late 1870s with two labels—mild and strong—from the William Dow and Co. brewery in Montreal. Largely text-heavy and simple in design, it does feature crossed... View Article
Brew Your Own Big Book of Homebrewing By Brew Your Own Magazine $21.99, Voyageur Press By the time this book gets to the actual recipes, you’ve already read more than 140 comprehensive pages that lay a solid foundation for how to make beer. From the pages and people behind the country’s foremost homebrewing magazine comes... View Article
Craft Obsession: The Social Rhetorics of Beer By Jeff Rice $40, Southern Illinois University Press The digital space has become the global tavern where people of all stripes can gather and talk about issues important to them. In the case of this book by the Martha B. Reynolds Professor and chair of department of writing,... View Article
