January 2003 Volume 23, Number 6

Features

Farewell, Father … It’s Beer War
by Michael Jackson

How do wars start? In some explosive countries, the trigger can be as simple as a disputed result of a soccer match. In Belgium, the argument is more likely to ...

An English Ale Tragedy
by Roger Protz

Anger and disbelief have greeted the news that W. H. Brakspear, one of England’s finest pale ale brewers, is to close by the end of the year. Brakspear, based in ...

Let Me Call You Honey
by Greg Kitsock

No one knows when and where primitive man took his first sip of alcohol. But most likely, it was a mead—a fermented honey beverage—that provided that first sensation of warmth ...

Land of Lager
by Gregg Glaser

Denmark may be a land of lager, but paradoxically it’s also the land from which the word “ale” made its way into the English language. The route was explained by ...