The world’s best-known beer writer did not claim to get everything right at first. “Obviously, I’m learning all the time, and revising my ideas. Nor did I start with the assumption that I knew better than anyone else,” Michael Jackson ...
If we meet at the Great American Beer Festival this year, I hope I won’t scare you. If our encounter today is beyond Denver, I hope I’m not frightening you now....
At first, there appeared to be barely a murmur of protest. Then the odd moan of disbelief; dismayed questions, fragmented attempts to rationalize, detached voices, a sigh, a groan. This eerie hush seemed to last for days....
A small-town boy in the Big City, a Northerner in the South (of England), newly married, living in an apartment, thinking of buying a house, finding my way… Funny how a chance encounter can change your life. One day, I ...
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 be over beer. A civil war seemed on the cards ...
With a bit of luck, you and I will be clinking glasses round about now. Usual time, same place? You remember it, of course? They have 1,200 beers, in 50 or 60 styles, from 300 breweries, under one roof? If ...
Michael Jackson’s first column in All About Beer Magazine was titled “The Thinking Drinker” and appeared in November of 1984. It had the first-person perspective and the self-deprecating, elliptical style that allowed him to advocate quite pointedly for the best ...
When famed beer writer Michael Jackson died in 2007, he left behind much more than a library of educational books on beer and whisky. The entirety of his archives—including 1,800 books, the contents of 29 filing cabinets, and countless handwritten ...
One day in August, 1965, a 27-year-old former graduate student in Japanese studies at Stanford walked into his favorite bar, the Old Spaghetti Factory in San Francisco’s trendy North Beach neighborhood. He ordered his usual: an Anchor Steam. The bar’s ...
WASHINGTON, DC—The world premiere screening of Beer Hunter: The Movie, a documentary about acclaimed beer writer Michael Jackson, is coming soon....
