Love craft beer? Why not brew your own? The American Homebrewers Association (AHA) just helped our beer-mad country celebrate National Homebrew Day (May 7), which was established by Congress in 1988, and probably should be a federal holiday. They also promoted the AHA Big Brew , in......

Beer has been around for millennia — some scientists even posit it predates organized bread baking, going back more than 6,000 years. There are beers today that use ancient ingredients that lost civilizations once prized, like Dogfish Head’s Birra Etrusca and Brasserie......

We like you. And we know you like great food and great beer. But we would love to know you even better: Where you drink, what else you drink besides beer, etc., so we can continue to create content that is even more tailored to your tastes and lifestyle. So we would be super grateful if you......

You know the smell: after a single swig of beer bottled in clear or green glass, or even left out in the sun in a clear glass for a mere 15 minutes, you encounter a malodorous, sulfury, skunk-like aroma. It might also taste like wet cardboard, a sign of oxidation. It’s not supposed to be......

The term “session beer” comes to us from the storied English tradition of consuming lower alcohol ales numerously, shall we say, in a short period of time, i.e., during a “session”. By easing back on the alcohol (though not flavor), brewers have been producing a class of......

We may be preaching to the converted, but when news and numbers keep coming out about craft beer’s continued, historic growth, we’ll stand up and preach it. The U.S.’s economic hardships over the last fifteen years have not even fazed the craft beer segment. This is a good......

You love to drink beer with dinner, so why not cook with it as well ? But how do you expand your culinary repertoire beyond brats cooked in beer? Luckily, Los Angeles-based beer expert Jackie Dodd, a.k.a. The Beeroness , can provide you with a little expert guidance. Her mission: to cook......

Hanging out with friends and family this time of year can be a roll of the dice, as the nation continues to battle epidemic levels of influenza and, of course, the common cold. And while such pathogens won’t survive in beer, sharing glassware or bar food with sniffly friends could easily......

Like us, you really love beer. So could you name all presently recognized beer styles and sub-categories (well over 100), blind-taste and identify hop varieties and off-flavors in beer, and, on the fly, calculate the recommended pounds per square inch of C02 to apply to a chilled ⅜ inch......

The American craft beer revolution marches on. From an all-time low of 44 in the late 1970s, the nation is now dotted with some 2,130 breweries changing the way we drink beer every day. Portland, Oregon, with its abundant real estate, low-ish brewers’ taxes, and access to pristine raw......