A couple of articles I read this past week got me thinking again about that spiny question of what exactly constitutes a session beer. There was the last Tuesday's article in The New York Times by Betsy Andrews entitled " The Other Extreme: Low-Alcohol Beers " but I also got a copy of the summer edition of the Yankee Brew News with Gregg Glaser's front page article "Session Beers". Despite the great job describing the US east coast scene, I have some lingering concerns: The range of alcohol strength is too great.  read more »

The Tennessee legislature is getting ready to debate one of the biggest changes in state liquor laws since the repeal of Prohibition.

Please don’t look at the photo above and think, “That jerk really is determined to stump the readers. Where’s the beer connection? Heck, where’s the beer?”

I picked this photo because I’ve been wanting to pass along a bit of beer history for a while. That might be the whole point of this non-contest contest: a chance for me to post a few photos I don’t seem to have an excuse to use otherwise.  read more »

It is the brewery's first all-organic brew. Tucsonans can get Mothership Wit in bottles at Sunflower Market or Whole Foods Market, as well as at Plaza Liquors, 2642 N. Campbell Ave.

Earlier this summer Martyn Cornell wrote that the Wikipedia entry on India Pale Ale “so completely, uselessly wrong as to be actively dangerous: the mistakes in it are going to be repeated by other writers too lazy to do their own research, and they are likely to take years to stamp out.” A bit of a discussion about Wikipedia followed with a bit of a sidebar about how dang frustrating it is to see myths get repeated as fact.

We were in the Canadian Rockies at the time, and later it seemed too late to chime that small breweries are also a culprit when it comes to the IPA story. A shorter version of the Wikipedia entry gets shown thousands of times a day to drinkers ordering from brewpub menus or customers reading the blurb on the neck label. In the long run this propagates the information just as dangerously as Wikipedia.  read more »

The St. Louis Business Journal says that top Anheuser-Busch marketer Dave Peacock is poised to lead the U.S. operations of Anheuser-Busch InBev. There is no doubt he would be the top choice to run North America, said Harry Schuhmacher, editor and publisher of trade newsletter Beer Business Daily in San Antonio. He has, in essence, been running the company for a while. August has been the president, but the real hands-on guy has been Dave Peacock.The Chicago Tribune looks at the Windy City's brew pubs.The Milwaukee Business Journal interviews Jake Leinenkugel, president of the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company, about the craft brewer's national expansion.  read more »