Bottles and Bars
May 14, 2013
The Mother of All Beer Weeks
Here at Weekly Pint we love beer weeks , which promote craft beer culture in delicious ways great and small across the land. So we’re excited to get behind American Craft Beer Week® 2013 , which kicked off yesterday with events in all 50 U.S. states, and runs through May......
May 9, 2013
Let Us All Eat Cake
We love a nice, frosty Guinness from time to time, not just because it really might be good for you ), but because we love stouts in general, like Left Hand’s yummy Nitro Milk Stout , a great craft-brewed alternative to the world-famous black elixir. This year, we’re......
Apr 23, 2013
In Brewed Spirits
The artisan-driven craft brewing revolution doesn’t stop with the beer aisle. Some of the world’s best brewers are wading into the distillation game with increasingly delicious results. These innovators are creating hand-made vodka, gin, brandy, rum, Bourbon, even single malt.......
Apr 16, 2013
The Class of 2013, Part One
Now that Spring 2013 has sprung, 2012 seems like a distant memory. Right? So last year! With a new brewery opening every day on average, we sampled quite deeply in 2012. And while it wasn’t easy, we did settle on a highly subjective list of just 20 packaged beers we hope......
Mar 21, 2013
Lights! Kegerator! Action!
Beer has inspired many a great movie scene—and entire movies, for that matter—thanks to what we’ll call its enlightening properties. There have been scores of appearances by beer of all stripes in comedy, horror , and documentary films, plus at least a few Harlem......
Mar 12, 2013
Win a Trip to Brew Hawaii
How could a day spent with beer people, drinking craft beer, be any better? How about by spending it in the tropics where the air smells like coconuts and white sand beaches reach for miles beside blue water? What are you doing in May? Ideally, you’re flying off to paradise to drink......
Ah, beer, a topic most of us can agree on...right? Hardly. With so many new breweries and beers coming out it can be mind-boggling to keep up, and one beer lover’s heaven is often another’s hell (hmm, fruit beer, anyone?). But sites that crowd-source beer reviews do tell us a lot......
Feb 19, 2013
Don't Call It a Comeback
It’s easy to spend one’s time immersed in the myriad IPAs, stouts, saisons, and sour beers of the moment. With all their fruit and tang and bite they command (and deserve) attention. But the quiet, powerful bock , a strong lager beer that originated in Einbeck, Germany, is not to......
Jan 15, 2013
One-Stop Hopping
There’s nothing better than a great, fresh, craft beer shared with friends. Trouble is, when you have friends as thirsty as ours, there’s often a need to bring home some additional goods. Enter the growler, an old form of transporting tap beer from brewery or beer bar to the home.......
Jan 8, 2013
Raiders of the Lost Ale
The roots of beer plunge into the mistiest depths of history—at least as early as 3500 B.C. , and possibly even thousands of years earlier as the very first organized farming of grains took place. The famous Code of Hammurabi (around 2000 B.C.) sentenced brewers guilty of diluting their......