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Almost no one talks bad about Pliny the Elder. Russian River Brewing Co.’s acclaimed double India pale ale has received almost perfect scores at popular beer reviewing sites, like RateBeer.com and BeerAdvocate.com. Gushing fans, jabbing at their keyboards with the beloved hop bomb on their desks, have even gone so far as to call this

Why do you drink craft beer? Back when I started drinking beer, in 1978, things were simple: I drank beer. Cold beer, free beer, dark beer, cream ale, even malt liquor, I grabbed it and loved it. Then I had my epiphany in 1981 with a flip-top bottle of German pilsner, and realized that I

Two California breweries see wine country as fertile ground for future beer operations. Last week, Stone Brewing and Fieldwork Brewing Co. each announced plans to open locations in Napa. Escondido-based Stone will renovate a downtown building and open a taproom in 2017, and Berkeley-based Fieldwork plans to open a tasting room in the Oxbow Public

Tickets are now available for the 12th annual World Beer Festival Raleigh, held at the N.C. State Fairgrounds on Saturday, April 1. For years, barbecue was the first culinary item people might have considered when thinking of North Carolina, but that has changed. Now one of the fastest growing states in the beer industry, the

Picture the scene: A bunch of co-workers from Saugatuck Brewing go out for a night in their town about 40 miles southwest of Grand Rapids, Michigan. They’re decently stoked about the selection of beer at the bars they patronize, but there’s one thing that ruins it at every stop: bartenders are pouring their drinks into

Guinness is a mighty global brand but there are signs that it is struggling to maintain its position as The Stout. In Britain, in particular, its popularity has been sliding for almost a decade: between 2008 and 2014 sales dropped by approximately 50 million liters per year, from more than 250 million to around 200 million.

The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is a beer event of unparalleled magnitude. About 49,000 attendees, including volunteers, gather each year in Denver, Colorado, to sample 3,500-plus beers from nearly 750 breweries. To coordinate all those people and all that beer, festival director Nancy Johnson and volunteer program manager Carol Hiller work year-round to produce

Several years back, a prominent U.S. brewer and his staff were touring around Europe, spending days visiting breweries and pubs on a vacation. Through a third party, they put in a request to Samuel Smith’s brewery in Yorkshire for a visit and the reply had been a blunt ‘no’ followed by the phone being placed

As the results of the recent presidential election reverberate through living rooms and tap rooms across the country, statements and stops from candidates visiting breweries are having real consequences on shelves and tap handles. Leading up to the Nov. 8 election, Eric Trump, son of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, visited D.G. Yuengling

"What's the difference between a porter and a stout?" Roasted barley. That’s the usual explanation of what separates porter and stout. Unfortunately that story is total bollocks. The true tale is more complicated, more confusing and much more fun. Let’s go back to their childhood. Eighteenth-century London with its elegant squares, gin and the birth