Munich mayor Christian Ude opened the 175th Oktoberfest beer festival on Saturday with the traditional cry of “O’ zapft is! – “It’s tapped!”
It took Ude just two swift strokes to pound a spigot into the first massive k…
Is it last call for the King of Beers?
That’s the question being asked near Wrigley Field as Anheuser-Busch and the owners of a building with a huge red and white Budweiser advertisement on the roof square off in a legal battle.
The new owner of…
So have you missed me? I’ve been to North Yorkshire for a week. Thanks for playing nicely with your comments while I’ve been away; they’ve made good reading.I’ve got a few articles up my sleeve from my time away although I’ve not been able to do as …
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Tickets for each of the nine neighborhood bar crawls are still available. If you don’t get a chance to purchase them online prior to 7pm the night before your intended crawl, don’t w…
If you are anywhere near Asheville, North Carolina, this weekend then you surely know about the Brewgrass Festival taking place today starting at noon, featuring a few dozen craft brewers. One of those breweries, Asheville’s own Highland Brewi…
Behind Home Plate of the Texas Rangers’ Ballpark in Arlington, I can vouch for the St. Arnold (Houston), Rahr (Fort Worth), and Shiner (some of it). The Lone Star (Pabst) and ZiegenBock (A-B)? Not so much so.
St. Arnold was offering up Lawnmower and …
Some news from back home, which I hope it’s okay to be spreading…
Mike Hiller started brewing Steel Drivin’ Stout in the last week. We’re told that he threw in some oatmeal, some chocolate malt, and plenty of caramel malt an…
Much like your standard zombie, a hop zombie has an insatiable hunger for one thing, and one thing only — hops. They will stop at nothing in their undead search.
This one has been an idea bouncing around in my head for quite some time n…
Ziga Zaga Ziga Zaga Oi Oi Oi! – I arrived to the Washington beer Commissions Oktoberfest at Pyramid Brewing in Seattle WA. The music was warming up when I arrived and the lines where forming and getting long to get in. Plus the speedy security guard m…
It goes without saying that the section of the European Beer Festival serving UK cask ales was called a “pavilion”. They were serving cheese at one side of it, but no cucumber sandwiches. As with most of the stands, it was staffed by volunteers from t…