May 2004 Volume 25, Number 2

Features

Lambic Under Attack
by Roger Protz

Lambic, one of the world’s most fascinating beer styles, is under threat. At the end of January, lambic brewers were due to meet with the Belgian government in an attempt ...

East Coast Brewing: The Fire Never Died
by Greg Kitsock

So many trends—from Starbucks coffee to grunge music to gourmet pizza with capers and duck sausage—started on the West Coast that it’s enough to give some East Coast residents an ...

The World’s Oldest Malt and Brew House
by Horst Dornbusch

Although much of beer’s dawn is shrouded in obscurity, we do know that beer is as old as civilization itself. We also know that humans have used two fundamentally different ...

Heaven on Earth
by Charles D. Cook

Beer, brewed by monks? The very concept might shock some people, especially in our alcohol-phobic society. But northern Europe has a long history of monastic brewing, stretching back as early ...