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 [...]
Until the deregulation of Japan’s brewing industry in the 1990s, four major brewers — Asahi, Suntory, Sapporo and Kirin – controlled the entire production of Japanese beer. But, that’s changing thanks in part to Japan’s sake makers, evolving beer palates, and ancient history. Ry Beville, publisher of The Japan Beer Times, says that demand for [...]
The National Journal “analyzed Scarborough Research data, which includes 200,000 interviews with American adults, to determine the politics of beer drinkers.” What did this totally legit survey determine? For starters, Dos Equis is a bipartisan brew — Republicans and Democrats both like to drink it. Republicans love their Coors Light and favor Sam Adams, while [...]
Designer Petit Romain of France came up with the concept of the cubed beer bottle back in 2008 to make the bottles more efficient for manufacturing, storage, transportation, and of course, storing in your dorm room mini-fridge. [via theurbn]
Gary Dzen, who runs the Boston Globe‘s 99 Bottles beer blog, travels to Waterbury, VT, who many consider New England’s best beer town. It doesn’t take long to feel comfortable in Waterbury. At Prohibition Pig, local pickled vegetables and a pulled pork sandwich make for a satisfying lunch. The bar is the only place besides [...]
Sam Kass, the White House chef, has released the recipes for two beers brewed on-premises at the White House: Honey Ale and Honey Porter. I love that they include the use of honey made from the bee-hive on the South Lawn and aside from that, the recipes seem easy enough to make for the home brewer. “As far [...]
Yes, The Awl recently had a feature on making homemade beer ice cream, but now America’s Test Kitchen gets in on the game. What were my favorites after making gallons upon gallons of ice cream? Just like when you’re choosing a beer for drinking, there isn’t one best choice for ice cream. The only ground [...]
