IPAs are pretty standard, nay a requirement, for any craft brewery. Hop bombs or inky stouts are how many of them create their reputations. If you like that particular beer style, then you’ll want to bookmark First We Feast’s list of 30 IPAs to drink before dying, It’s a solid collection of hoppy India Pale [...]
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As it turns out, beer (and alcohol more generally) allowed early humans to break away from their social constraints, which paid more dividends than typically found at a kegger. Five core social instincts, I have argued, gave structure and strength to our primeval herds. They kept us safely codependent with our fellow clan members, assigned us [...]
1. Huh. As it turns out Mississippi finally ratified the 13th Amendment — the one banning slavery — two weeks ago. Unofficially, they became the last state to ratify the amendment back in … 1995. 2. If you spent as much time in an arcade as I did growing up (or just playing video games [...]
You might have seen this add for Beck’s new beer called “Sapphire”. A few things to note about how poorly conceived this product and advertisement for it are. First, it uses German Sapphire Hops, which is how the product gets its name. Except, there’s no such thing as Sapphire Hops. The new strain of hops [...]
Dogfish Head Brewery has teamed up with the Grateful Dead to produce a new brew named “American Beauty”. The new brew is described as “a strong pale ale with all-American hops and barley” plus a secret ingredient still yet to be decided upon. The new brew won’t be available until October of 2013. “We’ve looked [...]
There’s so many interesting tidbits contained in this Businessweek profile of AB InBev, the world’s largest brewing conglomerate, and 52-year-old Carlos Brito, the man in charge of the company, that I’m at a loss where to begin. It’s a deeply fascinating look at how there is the runaway train of AB InBev and then craft [...]
This is why GQ’s recent list of America’s best beer cities can’t be taken seriously. Remy Scalza visits one neighborhood in Portland, Ore., one!, and makes it seem better than anywhere else in America. Now, take that experience and multiply it by about 30 neighbors and you still aren’t even close to experiencing Beervana. Just [...]
