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Spirits: Meet Mister Smooth An Introduction to Canadian Whisky |
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Written by Lew Bryson
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Ever had Canadian whisky? Chances are that if you’re 40 or older, you’ve at least had a 7-and-7 at some point, the last generation’s equivalent of a malternative: sweet and alcohol-laden, easy to gulp down. Maybe you got a bottle of Crown Royal, the iconic crown-shaped bottle in the famous purple bag.
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Northern Italy Fertile Ground for Craft Brews |
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Written by Tony Forder
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The grape vines and terraced olive groves of Piedmont province of northwest Italy stretch between the lazy villages perched above the Mediterranean. But, now there’s a new component wriggling its way into La Dolce Vita — it’s called beer.
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Written by Stephen Beaumont
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One of these years, dammit, I’m going to make it to all three “Great” beer festivals in a single season — The Great American Beer Festival, Great Canadian Beer Festival, and the granddaddy of them all, the Great British Beer Festival. I’ve done two of the three a couple of times — the American and British one memorable year, the Canadian and American a couple of times — but as yet have never made the perfect trifecta.
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Ms. Mug: Beer Finally Gets Invited to Dinner in Boston |
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Written by Lauren Clark
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In the last issue of ASN, Stephen Beaumont and I had a conversation about where the next 15 years of craft beer are headed. One development we noted with glee was how craft beer is finally moving beyond being a niche product found only at brewpubs and multi-taps to being a standard category on drink menus at good restaurants, right alongside wine and cocktails.
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Hops and Barley Shortages Will Mean Higher Prices |
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Written by Jack Curtin
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Dan Weirback finally decided to take matters into his own hands. The president and founder of Weyerbacher Brewing Co. knew it was time for someone in the craft brewing industry to try and put the emerging crisis in the availability of both hops and barley into perspective.
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Winter Fruit Crumb with Framboise Ale |
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Written by Tim Schafer
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This old fashion delicious dessert has been around for decades maybe even centuries.
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Fine Dining from the Beer Latitudes |
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Written by Horst Dornbusch
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“We drink wine with dinner because we have come to consider classic French and Italian cuisine as the ultimate in fine dining. But these two culinary cultures are situated in the wine latitudes. We seem to have forgotten that there is a whole other food world out there...from the beer latitudes.” — Jim Koch, founder of the Boston Beer Co. and brewer of Samuel Adams beers
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Stoudts Plunges into Bottling |
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Written by Tony Forder
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In between shows Ed Stoudt was sweeping the floor. His wife Carol was swatting flies in the shop.
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Petite Abeille Leads Manhattan’s 2nd Belgian Wave |
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Written by Bernie Kilkelly
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Way back in the late 1990s, which in the fast-moving New York restaurant world is eons ago, a craze for Belgian food and beer swept lower Manhattan. Petite Abeille and Markt opened in the not-yet-fashionable Meatpacking District. Petite Abeille expanded to Tribeca and Greenwich Village, where it was joined by Le Frite Kot (now Vol de Nuit), Waterloo and the cavernous Belgo.
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Beer Writers Bond on a Bus in Bavaria |
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Written by Lauren Clark
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In December, 16 North American beer journalists, including myself, embarked on a weeklong beer-tasting tour of Bavaria, Germany. Our mission? To spread the word to people back home that there’s much more to German beer than Beck’s and St. Pauli Girl — that Bavarian beer is right up there with, say, Belgian beer in variety and character.
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Jackson's World: This Bud's For You |
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Written by Michael Jackson
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How did Budweiser become the world’s biggest-selling beer? I have been frequently asked for an explanation ever since I started writing about beer more than 30 years ago.
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Ms. Mug: When You’re Beer’s Not So Fresh |
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Written by Lauren Clark
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Ever have one of those days when your beer just isn’t, well...fresh?
We all have those days. Unfresh beer is a fact of life. And yet, nobody talks about it. Let’s face it — it’s embarrassing.
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