The Craft Brewers’ Compendium: An Omnibus of Brewing Materials By Ted Bruning and Don Burgess $18.99, Posthouse Publishing Does the world need another encyclopedic approach to beer? Ted Bruning and Don Burgess thought so. The two have undertaken the Herculean task of cataloging as many varieties of malt, hops and yeast as they could find.... View Article
The Wildcrafting Brewer: Creating Unique Drinks and Boozy Concoctions from Nature’s Ingredients By Pascal Baudar $29.95, Chelsea Green Publishing There’s been a resurgence of interest lately in foraged or place-based beers, as evident by a number of new books on the subject. This latest is less about beer—especially as most know it—and brewing here loosely... View Article
Best Beers: The Indispensable Guide to the World’s Best Craft & Traditional Beers By Stephen Beaumont and Tim Webb $14.99, Mitchell Beazley While Stephen Beaumont and Tim Webb are two accomplished beer writers, there are—believe it or not—beers they have yet to consume, breweries they have yet to visit (in the introduction, they estimate that... View Article
The Scratch and Sniff Guide to Beer: A Beer Lover’s Companion By Justin Kennedy $22, Harper Design Given how critical the sense of smell is to enjoying beer, it’s surprising it took this long for such a book to hit the market. But it’s here, complete with scratch-and-sniff stickers for everything from the obvious (hops)... View Article
Oscar Wong opened Highland Brewing Co. in 1994, making it one of North Carolina’s oldest breweries. Before Asheville became a mecca for beer lovers, Wong was quietly producing the brewery’s flagship Gaelic Ale in a basement downtown. It didn’t take him long to outgrow that space, and the brewery has continued to evolve its taproom... View Article
While fans of The Ohio State University practically bleed scarlet and gray, there’s more to Ohio’s capital city than the famed Buckeyes or the state’s iconic peanut butter and chocolate candy bearing the same name. Columbus is overflowing with new breweries. Half of the nearly 40 breweries that call the city home have opened in... View Article
On a Friday night at Clouds Brewing in Durham, North Carolina, the bartenders are the epitome of efficiency. With a wave of a wrist and the pull of a tap handle, beer pours into my glass without a word exchanged. The bartenders track how much I’ve consumed down to the tenth of an ounce and... View Article
At this year’s Great American Beer Festival, the crew from Melvin Brewing blared hip-hop from their bus, fired T-shirts from cannons and hung out with the wrestler Hacksaw Jim Duggan. And these celebrations all came before the brewery won two gold medals (for its Wet Hop Melvin and Hubert MPA) and was named Brewery Group... View Article
On Saturdays at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, one can find fresh produce, breads, cheeses, honey, and, in one case, a vendor marked by an all-caps sign for “BEER” hanging above its stand amid the dense crowd of the weekly farmers market by Prospect Park. “New York City is kind of overwhelming. There’s a lot of... View Article
