All About Beer Magazine

By Bryan Betts When you think of good German beer, Bamberg and Munich are probably the first places that spring to mind. It is not all southern though—there is great beer in the north too, where Hamburg and Bremen were ...

(Press Release) BOULDER, CO—Vying for attention in the international arena, 23 American craft breweries, all members of the Brewers Association’s Export Development Program, won 36 awards in 22 different categories at European Beer Star, one of the most respected and recognized beer competitions ...

Those of us “experienced” enough to remember the beer wasteland before the brewing Renaissance cut our teeth on rather pedestrian European imports. Mostly, they were English or German in origin, with the odd Belgian bauble. There was no special release ...

Just out of the subway and trudging through freshly fallen snow, my sights were set on Radegast Hall and Biergarten in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. Fighting against a bracing wind, I focused on what I thought lay ahead of me: liters ...

Here is the paradox of water as it relates to brewing beer: it is, by volume, the dominant ingredient, yet it’s the one that you hear the least about. Hops, with the myriad of exotically named varieties—Fuggles, Tettnanger, Crystal, Nugget, ...

A revered institution is one that endures via love of tradition, one that needs little refinement, let alone overhaul or modernization. In the world of beer, that is, without debate, true about Munich dunkel. Sometimes referred to simply as dunkel ...

We’re long time believers that no matter where you go, you’ll always find a memorable place to have a beer or two. Sometimes the memories come from the venues. Sometimes they come from the beer. And sometimes it’s the unexpected ...

If you love beer culture, you have to go to Munich at least once in your lifetime. Simple as that. But after you’ve experienced the Hofbräuhaus, where do you go next? Larry Hawthorne, author of The Beer Drinker’s Guide to ...