“Fruit beer” used to be a punchline. In craft beer’s formative 1980s, fruit beers tended to be too sweet and fruity, hammering the palate with flavors reminiscent of Trix, cherry cough drops, or blueberry bubblegum. Some were earnest experimentations that led to better......

If “food is the new rock” then craft beer—at once revolutionary, authentic, and exploratory—is punk, psychedelia, and bluegrass rolled into one. And there’s almost nothing better than taking in some mind-blowing band’s performance while sipping something......

Beer isn’t just for drinking. It sparks deep conversations, artistic inspirations , even social revolutions . So we are pumped to see that Brooklyn Brewery is taking its eloquent yet revolutionary approach to the best beverage ever on the road with a mobile culture festival of......

Spring showers bring April flowers—our hop bines are already peeking out—and they also help swell rivers running fast with spring snowmelt. By mid-summer the conditions for rafting shape up nicely. If you’ve never been down a wild river in a raft, you’re missing out one......

The joke about The Festival—a.k.a. Special International Festival of Small Brewers and Cider Makers, which debuted in Worcester, MA last year—was that it had been imported beer’s Woodstock, it’s Bonnaroo. If you were there (and we were), the stories will reverberate for......

We’re big fans of beer weeks around here. They gather the best and brightest of local beer culture, giving us even more reasons—as if we needed any—to head out on the town and appreciate that noble union of malt, hops, yeast, and water. And by appreciate we mean drink,......

Is spring here yet? Not quite, alas. But there’s a slew of beer week events across the country to tide us over. (Last May we previewed great beer fests in Philly, Chicago, Asheville, and Portland, OR; check that warm-weather list here and start planning ahead.) Organized by local......

Beer is essentially an agricultural product. The barley malt and hops come from cultivated crops, and brewers often feed their spent grains to local farmers. But until now, we haven’t heard of a huge working livestock ranch with its own brewery. Ruby Mountain Brewing Company , founded......

As the global craft beer revolution marches on, it’s only fitting that the glorious, adaptable beverage of beer should find its way into every level of restaurant. After all, if you’ve discovered the dedication that modern craft brewers put into every bottle, it makes perfect sense......

Oregon’s got some of the best beer and scenery in the country, so we can’t wait to join one of these mouth-watering one-day tours. Oregon-born founders Keith and Dan Vandervort are brothers with more than family in common. They both love to trek and later hydrate with the......