January 2013 Volume 33, Number 6

Features

May Your Glass Be Ever Full
by Roger Protz

In Ireland, history catches you by the coattails at every turn. Towns, cities and countryside reflect centuries of invasion, foreign domination and massacre, the unbearable horror of the Great Hunger ...

What Makes a Holiday Beer?
by Don Russell

Looking at the shelves this season, it occurs to me that Christmas beer must’ve been invented by atheists. Only non-believers completely lacking in dogma could embrace this anything-goes style of ...