All About Beer September 2013 Issue

Columns

Full Pints - In The Brewhouse

The Perfect Harmony of Collaboration

by Tomme Arthur

Seventeen years ago, I earned my first brewing gig as an assistant brewer at a startup brewpub in downtown San Diego called Cervecerias La Cruda. Like many apprentice brewers of that era, I was a great consumer, but I was greener than the Jolly Green Giant when it came to brewing knowledge. I knew what […]

Full Pints - It's My Round

Hey! Beer Man!

by Marc Cappelletti

Growing up in a family with three Heisman Trophy winners and NFL running backs (John Cappelletti and, through marriage, Alan Ameche and Glenn Davis), I never had to go far for my football fix. Games, memorabilia, awards banquets—I was blessed to have intimate access to a sport I loved. But it wasn’t until I left […]

Full Pints - The Beer Curmudgeon

Potential Pitfalls of the Craft Beer Revolution

by Harry Schuhmacher

Do you know what a SKU is? In the consumer goods industry, it is an abbreviation for stock keeping unit, and we pronounce it “skew.” A stock-keeping unit is just a very unfancy way of referring to a specific brand and package combination. In the beer industry, a brand would be Lagunitas IPA. A package […]

Departments

Full Pints - Stylistically Speaking

Baltic and Imperial Porter

by K. Florian Klemp

Porter in all its forms may be one of the more misunderstood and underappreciated of all beer styles. Common porter was the dominant brew on the planet during the cusp of the 18th and 19th centuries, bringing rock-star fortunes to the beer barons of London and great beer to a global clientele. Porter was sent […]

Book Reviews - Full Pints

Brewing Made Easy, 2nd Edition: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Beer at Home

by Marty Nachel

Brewing Made Easy is a handy-dandy little guide to getting new brewers up and brewing quickly. By following this book’s easy-to-follow instructions, anyone can become a confident homebrewer in short order. This is the second edition (the first edition dates to 1996). Both editions were written by Joe and Dennis Fisher. The brothers Fisher run […]

Beyond Beer - Full Pints

America’s Next Great Grapes

by Rick Lyke

California earned its place on the world wine stage at the Judgment of Paris in 1976 when, in a blind tasting, French judges selected both a Californian white and a red over wines from their country. Not only was this a major hit to the French psyche, it also signaled to the world that Americans […]

Beer Travelers - Sidebars - Uncategorized

Side trip to Huntsville

by Brian Yaeger

A hundred miles north of Birmingham, there’s a brewery boom occurring in Huntsville. Straight to Ale (3200 Leeman Ferry Road) in the Olde Towne Brewing’s former space, was the first to open a tap room in 2010. Try its Monkeynaut IPA. That same year, Blue Pants Brewery (500 Lanier Road) opened down the road in […]

Beer Travelers - Sidebars

Southeast Alaska’s other breweries

by Brian Yaeger

A hundred miles north of Juneau is Skagway Brewing Co. (7th and Broadway), originally opened in 1897 to service the gold rushers, then relaunched 110 years later when Boom Town is merely the name of its brown ale. Don’t miss Spruce Tip Blonde to taste its terroir. Another spruce tip beer can be sampled at […]

Beer Travelers - Full Pints

The Last Frontier

by Brian Yaeger

For Trekkies, space is the final frontier. For nerds of another flavor—beer geeks—there’s always somewhere new to explore, some vast area of beer to pioneer if only on a personal level. With a rapidly growing number of hubs that vie for the title of Beer Town, USA, what about places not yet steeped in suds? […]

Full Pints - Pull Up A Stool

Pull Up A Stool with John and Chris Trogner

by Julie Johnson

Brothers John and Chris Trogner were born and raised in central Pennsylvania. After a stint in Boulder, CO, where John worked a brewery and Chris in a restaurant, they returned to their home state, and founded Tröegs Brewing Co. in Harrisburg in 1996. In 2011, Tröegs moved to a new brewery in Hershey, PA. AAB: […]

Beer Talk

Beer Talk

Triple Chocoholic Stout

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Saltaire Brewery West Yorkshire, U.K. Brewed near a well-preserved industrial village and UNESCO World Heritage Site. A former winner of a gold medal at the SIBA Beer Competition, this beer’s chocolate malts make it an opaque black stout. ABV: 4.8 ABW: 3.8 COLOR: NA BITTERNESS: 35 ORIGINAL GRAVITY: 1048 AVAILABLE: Brazil, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, […]