In April 1995, Charlie Papazian, president of what would become the Brewers Association, asked a roomful of attendees at the
On a July evening in 2009, five men sat down to gin martinis and medium-rare steaks at Harris’ Restaurant in
UPDATE: In case you missed it, this was an April Fools’ Day joke. To our knowledge, Michael Jackson never wrote
For Randolph “Stick” Ware, it all started in his junior year of high school when Uncle Slim blew into South
On the day after St. Patrick’s Day in 1985, Jim Koch got a phone call. It was his mother’s cousin,
In the fall of 1984, Richard Wrigley, a British transplant from Manchester who once likened Michelob to “a soft drink,”
Triple Rock Brewery and Alehouse in Berkeley, CA. Photo by Jon Page In 1986, John Hickenlooper drove from Colorado to
Russian River Brewing Co. The first pour every February of the Russian River Brewing Co.’s Pliny the Younger had been
By the mid-1980s, the beer scene in Arizona, which hosts Super Bowl XLIX this weekend, was bleak. The state’s only
Cameron Healy and Spoon Khalsa (top) launched Kona Brewing Co. in 1994 and rolled out the first kegs and bottles
