Let these names roll around your mouth a moment: mumme, jopenbier, Peeterman, Cöpenicker Moll. Delicious, aren’t they? And yet the beers they designated don’t always sound equally so. Jopenbier, for example—a specialty of Gdansk, Poland—had an original gravity of near 1.200 (that’s not a typo), was spontaneously fermented, but was so poorly attenuated that it... View Article
Devils Backbone Brewing Co. recently released an Adventure Pack, featuring three collaboration beers and its Eight Point IPA. Follow the links below to read tasting notes on each of the beers, and look for the beer in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC. Eight Point IPA Devils Tale (with Coronado Brewing Co.) The Devil Went Down... View Article
Editor’s Note: Even if you’ve never met Woody Chandler, you know who he is. He’s that guy. The one dressed as a monk at beer festivals around the country. The guy noted beer and whisky writer Lew Bryson calls “one of America’s best-known beer drinkers.” He’s the boisterous, passionate, enthusiastic one who is quick to... View Article
The 114th U.S. Congress and 50 state legislatures are now in session, and beer is up for debate in 2015. From tax reform to 64-oz growlers, legislation runs the gamut, and consumers across the country may see changes to the way they buy and drink their favorite beers. Let’s take a look at some of... View Article
One of Colorado’s most respected breweries has a new home. On Monday, Feb. 16, Avery Brewing Co. celebrated the long-anticipated opening of its new Boulder, CO, headquarters. Most would agree that the move to the impressive 67,000-square-foot, $27 million facility was long overdue for the largest of Boulder’s 19 brewing operations. Avery was founded in... View Article
The name of the business was perfect: Santo Graal. The best beer bar in all of the Azores is located at the very edge of the capital city’s commercial district, and the “Irish Pub and Beer Sanctuary” is aptly named, “Holy Grail.” A traveler to this autonomous region of Portugal doesn’t expect to find great... View Article
As the years roll by, the United States is slowly developing a repertoire of favorite beer styles. Hoppy ales are by far the dominant strain in American brewing, but a few other types have managed to stake out pockets of the market. Unexpectedly, one of these smaller winners is the exotic, alluring saison—about as far... View Article
Full Sail Brewing Co. proudly touts its ownership on beer labels. Independent, it reads. “47 employee owners.” That’s the number of people who worked at the Hood River, OR, brewery in 1999, the year the brewery went to an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). The number today of employee owners—called shareholders—is 78, and on Tuesday... View Article
Scott Clendaniel and Karen Eland appreciate beer as art. As painters, they understand the emotional responses beer can evoke, and they use it to inspire their own work. Clendaniel, of Anchorage, AK, makes oil paintings of and inspired by the beer he’s drinking at the time, while Eland, of Bend, OR, creates beer-inspired images using... View Article
