Features
Scoring Treasures from the Backfield and Breweries
Now with the opponents in SuperBowl XLI decided, it is time to look at how beer and football have huddled together.
Burton Beers Today
A visit to Burton-on-Trent can still yield delights for the discerning beer drinker. These beers may not fit the American idea of what an IPA should be, but they are all heirs to the tradition and have much to recommend them. Pedigree 4.5% ABV, Marston’s Unlike Coors, which strips the minerals out of its water […]
Burton-on-Trent—The World’s Most Important Beer Town
Ask your typical British beer drinker what Burton-on-Trent is famous for, and you might not get the answer you were expecting. They’ll probably frown, think for a second, then say, “Oh yeah, the FA Cup upset last year!”
A Newly Designed Beer Glass
“I became unhappy with the traditional glasses for Samuel Adams Boston Lager,” said Jim Koch of The Boston Beer Co. “These glasses weren’t presenting the beer at its best to the drinker and not properly enhancing the ingredients and the brewer’s intent.”
The Glass
The most common glass used in American bars is the 16-ounce shaker pint, also called the sleeve pint glass. It’s inexpensive, sturdy and easy to stack. It’s also, according to many brewers and importers of special beers, a terrible glass for beer. “The shaker pint is a glass tongue depressor, the worst glass in the […]
Columns
Of Green Beer and Bagpipes
It’s hard to believe but it’s been 15 years since I’ve celebrated St. Patrick’s Day. Sure, I’ve hoisted a pint of Guinness Stout and dined on corned beef and cabbage on March 17 this past decade and a half—as any gal blessed with the surname Finnegan is required to. But I mean, really celebrate, the […]
Oh, Ye Biere Styles, Where Goest Thou Now?
The world has been blessed with a proliferation of new beer varieties. Robert Wahl and Max Henius presented the 19th century’s beer list in their masterpiece, the two volume American Handy Book of Brewing and Malting, published in 1908. There, they outlined about 17 beer styles that were then being brewed in this country, in […]
Departments
Weizenbock: A Perfect Marriage
Some of the most beloved beers in the world are those that blend distinct styles to create a vibrant and perfect marriage. Obvious examples are the top-fermented lager biers of Germany, kölsch and altbier; and California common from the United States. One style, weizenbock (wheat bock), is not generally recognized as a product of beery […]
The Town That Beer Made Famous
If you spend enough time beer traveling, the road will lead you to Wisconsin. It’s a place where the corner tavern is still a cherished institution, there are more craft breweries than any other state in the region, and every town seems to have a beer festival, an Oktoberfest, or both.
with Alastair Hook
Where do you see Meantime Brewery in the modern UK brewing landscape? In terms of the modern landscape, we are unique. There are probably 400 micros in the UK. We’re the only one who brewery-conditions all of our products. We’re very much more like an American microbrewery, in that we brew and produce styles within […]
Beer Talk
Left Hand Milk Stout
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