March 2010 Volume 31, Number 1

Features

Bières de Garde: France’s Road Less Traveled
by Mike Tessier

Everyone remembers that one bottle of beer that awakened their thirst for beer knowledge. Mine was Sans Culottes from La Choulette. At the time I had no idea what a ...

Memoirs of a Beer Roadie
by Owen Ogletree

With sheets of rain blanketing our SUV, windshield wipers pounding out a mind-numbing rhythm, a stream of crimson brake lights ahead to the horizon and two stressed-out beer reps in ...

Craft Beer and Artisan Cheese
by Julie Johnson

When Cindy West left a career in accounting, she and her husband Dorian spent a year in Paris, where she trained as a chef. Back in her home state of ...

Saison: Flavors of the Countryside
by Adrian Tierney-Jones

In his magisterial The Brewmaster’s Table, Garrett Oliver wrote that if he were forced to drink just one beer style with food for the rest of his life it would ...

Farmhouse Ales
by Phil Markowski

Life on a farm a few centuries ago probably possessed few luxuries outside of a warm fire and a tankard of house-brewed ale. It was likely a simple brew made ...