Features
Culture
50 Things To Love About Beer
by StaffThis feature appears in the November 2016 issue of All About Beer Magazine. Click here to subscribe to the magazine today. We’ve long believed that enjoying beer goes beyond just the liquid. In putting together this issue, we talked about the things we like about being beer drinkers. From the everyday items that are easy to take for granted […]
Brewing Features
The New Carlsberg: A Brewing Giant Turns to a Small Approach
by Jeff AlworthCOPENHAGEN—We should invent a name for this kind of thing—ghost brewing or reincarnated beer, something like that. It’s when a brewery revives an old recipe and tries to brew it to the standards of a lost era—often with ancient ingredients. Recently, the Carlsberg Brewery ran through this exercise after successfully cropping yeast from a 133-year-old […]
Chefs' Pairings - Food - Recipes
Malt Extract Glazed Pork with Dry-Hopped Apples
by Jensen CummingsBecause I was raised in Germany, this classic combination of pork and apples holds a special place for me. It has the truly timeless decadence of pork belly balanced by hints of natural apple sugars heightened with honey and gentle vinegar tartness in the brine. The use of malt extract and hop pellets (both of […]
Brewing Features
Flavor Matching: How Breweries with Multiple Locations Create Consistency
by Stan HieronymusThis article appears in the November issue of All About Beer Magazine. Subscribe today and have All About Beer Magazine delivered to your mailbox, tablet, smartphone or computer. Twenty years ago there was a chance that a beer drinker in Manhattan might open a bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale that had traveled 2,850 miles from Chico, California, […]
Columns
Behind the Bar
The Unappealing Dirty Glass
by John HollNot too long ago I was at a bar in my neighborhood, a place not in my usual rotation but with an expansive tap list and many televisions, making it an ideal place to catch a game or three. Or to kill an hour while waiting for a friend to pop out of the train […]
Industry Insights
Of Beers, Bellies and Balance
by Christopher Shepard“I’m stuffed,” we say when the broccoli makes one more trip around the table. But 10 minutes later we “always have room for dessert.” For me, beer works like that. I’ve got a whole separate compartment in my stomach for beer. Not so, of course; the separate compartment is in my mind, not my stomach. […]
Departments
Pull Up A Stool
Pull Up A Stool With John Stewart
by John HollEditor’s Note: This story appears in the November 2016 issue of All About Beer Magazine. Click here to subscribe. Since the start of his brewing career nearly a dozen years ago, John Stewart has been lucky to work with barrels. From New Holland Brewing Co., where he was responsible for barrel aging Dragon’s Milk, to […]
What's Brewing
Entertainers, Athletes Gravitate to Brewing
by Bryan RothIt may have been a bit of fate that pushed Chris Ray to a career in beer. It was July 29, 2011, when Ray, a relief pitcher for the Seattle Mariners, stepped to the mound in the seventh inning, set to face the Tampa Bay Rays. Ray fired off 39 pitches across two innings, his […]
Book Reviews
The Pub: A Cultural Institution – from Country Inns to Craft Beer Bars and Corner Locals
by Daniel HartisThe Pub: A Cultural Institution – from Country Inns to Craft Beer Bars and Corner Locals By Pete Brown $34.99 | Jacqui Small LLP “How do you sum up something as beautifully anarchic as the British pub?” That’s the question Pete Brown asks at the beginning of his detailed, thoughtful, nostalgic and at times romantic […]
Beer Travelers
Drinking Near Halls of Fame
by Brian YaegerThere’s a lot of talk these days about America’s greatness and whether that quality solely existed in our collective past, or if it persists in the present, or whether it needs to be made so once more. The fact is, we have hallowed halls that are testaments to the people who have achieved greatness. These […]
Beer Weekend
48 Hours in Alexandria, Virginia
by Jeff CiolettiMany are quick to dismiss Northern Virginia as, simply, the suburbs of the nation’s capital, but those who do are robbing themselves of a chance to experience one of the beer world’s great hidden gems: the city of Alexandria, just a few metro stops removed from the District of Columbia. From the Colonial-era architecture (and […]
Home Brewing
Autumn: Made for Cider
by K. Florian KlempNow that summer has given way to autumn, our attention turns to fall seasonal beers. We also have our annual chance to make fresh cider. Apple cider, the original American “microbrew,” has never been more fashionable, and the artisanal cider industry is blossoming. Homemade cider is the ultimate taste of autumn and quite easy to […]