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What exactly is Lentbier, and how has it played a role in fasting during the Christian celebration of Lent?

Some of the best beers being made in Britain today belong to a style that has no name. They are the colour of pilsner, usually made with only pale malt, but they are not mere ‘golden ales’—‘golden’ is not, after all, a flavour. They have extravagant, upfront New World hopping suggesting tropical fruits and aromatic

Next week thousands of people who make beer, distribute beer, sell beer, make brewhouses, grow hops, grow barley, culture yeast and write about beer will be in my hometown, Portland, Oregon, for the Craft Brewers Conference. Welcome! As honored guests in our fair city, I hope you have a wonderful time and manage to find

In 2011—which, depending on your relationship to time, was either recently or long ago—I embarked on my maiden voyage to England. I was doing research for the Beer Bible. When I touched down at Heathrow, there were about 20 breweries in London, and I managed to tour a respectable 10 percent of them. And 20

The more I learn about beer, the more I think it all comes down to culture. We think of beer as this knowable thing, this quantifiable thing. It must be balanced and harmonious; it should not have certain objectionable flavors; it should look a particular way. But

Not too long ago, the English writer Mark Dredge wrote to me to look over a list of the regional variations in IPAs. It included the classics, like West Coast IPA (super hoppy and bitter, brightly citrusy), East Coast (maltier, more European hop character), Northwest IPA (hop aromas and flavors dominate), Midwest IPA (balance, soft

Experience the Czech pub with iconic Czech lager and national brewery of the Czech Republic, Budweiser Budvar.

From a Colorado Pilsner Slow Pour that requires over 24 hours to fill its fermenter to a Chinese Double IPA which costs less as the air quality worsens, heres but a small sampling of craft beers

“All round were tables and benches at which guests were sitting; clouds of blue smoke from pipes and cigars filled the air and daughters of the host, red cheeked with true flaxen hair and forget-me-not blue eyes.” “It reminded us all of home and we thought we had found ourselves in Germany at the Antipodes.” While no clouds of blue smoke rosy-cheeked publican’s daughters remain, the building remains largely the same today. Supplied Moutere Inn builder Cordt Bensemann was one of the...