An update on the recently-launched Beervana Community project.
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A specialty of Halle, Belgium in the Zenne Valley, “devil’s beer” exists only liminally in the 21st century. Once, this dark, diabolical beer had the capacity to render drinkers entranced. Struck by the story, Corvallis, Oregon’s Block 15 has revived it to impressive effect.
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Since 2006, Deschutes has packaged their Reserve Series line of beers in 22-ounce bombers. This week, they changed course, releasing The Abyss in a four-pack of 12-ounce bottles. Here’s what they were thinking.
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Today I’m launching a new experiment at the site: the Beervana Community. As with any community, it will be guided by the interests and serve the needs of members. Come have a look.
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In today’s diary, Nat West of Reverend Nat’s encourages breweries, cideries, and drinkers to remember other crises unfolding in 2020.
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A follow-up on the GABF, pumpkin ales, and exciting website updates—what more could you want for your Friday?
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The long, dark winter has arrived. The next few months will feature little on-site dining and a much larger dip in winter beer sales. For many breweries, that may be fatal. Here’s what you can do to help.
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Craft breweries are rapidly turning kveik into yet another juice-delivery system, which is fine as far as it goes, but risks slamming the door on far richer, more interesting possibilities. Let’s all be aware of what we’re dismantling before we dismantle it completely.
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The iron law of press releases holds that they must contain a quote from someone involved in the news being announced. Almost always these are fake and it must stop! Also, a choice cut of corporatese to relish.
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I am a savvy, experienced (read: old) election-watcher and alcohol-drinker and I’ve been to many an election-night rodeo. Here are some tips to drinking as the results trickle in.
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This is going to be a rough week in the United States, and we’ll need grace and goodwill to survive it. And beer. Lots of beer.
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All About Beer died as a print magazine a couple years back. Today I learned that the archives have vanished from the internet. It’s a huge loss of the beer world, and one we’ll never get back.
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The site is being updated; no cause for alarm. I’m going to introduce a new element or two as well, so look for that. Part of it involves you! In the meantime, don’t mind the site’s transformation. It may bounce around a bit, but everything should function normally.
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Hearty thinking on a chilly morning. Why do we think beers with dark malts are “warming,” and have we slowly, sneakily replaced the standard 12-ounce can with pints?
Read MoreThe Covid pandemic has forced breweries to change the beers they brew, how they market and sell those beers, and how customers find them. How will these changes affect beer long-term in a post-Covid world?
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On this awards weekend, we can celebrate some of the best beer and writing of the past year. Congrats to all the winners of the GABF and North American Guild of Beer Writers.
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Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is the most important beer brewed in the United States, and possibly the most important beer brewed since Josef Groll made a pale lager in 1842. This is its story.
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Checking in on breweries as winter approaches. Up today, Matt Van Wyk of Alesong Brewing and Lisa Allen of Heater Allen.
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One brewery accounted for three of the best fresh hop beers I had this year, including the very best example. What’s StormBreaker’s secret?
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