By Fred Eckhardt New York’s Rheingold Brewery produced the first light beer, Gablinger’s Diet Beer, in 1967, but it was a failure (didn’t sell). It had an original gravity* of 9 degrees Plato (1036 British), 4.6 percent ABV (alcohol by volume), but with ...
By Fred Eckhardt Oh, wait. Not five-cent beer. What we need is five percent beer, although I actually drank what may have been the last five-cent beer ever offered. That was in about 1955, when a local Seattle tavern offered beer in a ...
By Fred Eckhardt The first multiple tap bars had to be found in Europe. Perhaps it all started early in 18th century East London’s Shoreditch area where publicans came to serve a mixture from three different casks. “Three threads,” as it was called ...
By Julie Bradford 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 ...