I will be enjoying a very special field trip to Hornindal, Norway for the next week. Here’s a preview. 

One thing writers don’t talk about much is fear, though it gnaws at the edges of our consciousness every time we sit down to work. Instead we talk about “writer’s block,” that inability to put phrase to page, as if it were a cognitive, rather than emotional condition. It’s just fear.

Now women win about half the awards each year. This year they won 44% of the awards, but placed first in eight of fourteen categories. New and emerging writers have a good shot. Writers from historically underrepresented groups—in addition to the women, BIPOC and LGBTQ writers—won a number of awards.

The club of the uninfected diminishes by the day, and it appears I’ve joined the one that grows and grows. Yep, I finally caught Covid.

Ruvani de Silva, the daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants to the UK, posted an exceptional article yesterday about the meaning of identity and empire. I’d like to add an American footnote to the Queen. 

John Holl was in town, and after a false start, he got to drink many fresh-hop beers. I was along for the ride. 

I see you reaching for that four pack of IPAs with the geometric pop-art labels. Are you choosing it because the beer is good, or because you are aware it’s what all the cool people are drinking? Status in beer is a small thing, but it's still a thing.

No period on the calendar is more anticipated in the Pacific Northwest than fresh hop season. Fresh hops are delightful and unusual—and fleeting. Here’s how to make the most of them. 

The languors of summer have ravaged my schedule. 

“Cold IPA” is, aside from everything else, a fantastic name. Kevin Davey discusses the important function of communication. 

This is the latest chapter in an ongoing collaboration between the Beervana Blog and Reuben's Brews. In today's post, I address a couple questions involving the hottest beer in the taproom: cold IPA. It is often presented as a new style, but is it really new—and is it really a style? All will be revealed below!

Today marks the 15th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death. Yet 2022 would only be his 80th year. What might he have written had he had this past decade and a half to document the ever-evolving world of beer?

There’s a real danger that the constant chemical invention that makes beers taste more vivid is also changing the way we think about them. We know that a chemist can synthesize flavors with a magician’s skill, but the reason we once liked beer was because we admired how a brewer could make beer taste.