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Profiled by Ken Carman This is not quite your standard American IPA. The hops are a bit more earthy and also Noble in character. There’s also just a bit of high alpha sense: but by no means enough to spoil the style. Just enough to tantalize the taste buds. Poured with rocky head that faded [...]

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Written by Carolyn Smagalski for bellaonline.com The Silly Beer Laws by U.S. State in the list below are, by no means, a complete list of laws governing beer or alcoholic beverages. They are merely a broad illustration of the range of regulations covered, from the ridiculous to the mundane. Alabama Cities and counties can choose [...]

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YOS has pondered poverty for most of his life. What to do. What to do. All those welfare queens in their limos that crowd our streets picking up their food stamps for doing nothing. You’ve seen them, right? Why one of those welfare queens almost ran over Scribe yesterday on the way to get his [...]

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Profiled by Ken Carman This is a bit Saison-like. Light. Pale yellow. Nice head. A bit hazy: chill haze? Nose a bit fruity. Head fades fast. Just a bit of orange peel sense and coriander. Light on the palate. Just a bit of an orange nose. A very pleasing light beverage: the orange and coriander [...]

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Here’s one store owner’s reaction to the changing beer laws: “I’ve got to change my whole store to accommodate this.” This vendor delivers a cart filled with Coors beer to Coors Field in Denver. Written by Lew Bryson for msnbc.com and portfolio.com If you don’t live in Pennsylvania, this is going to sound a little [...]

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Written by Ryan Grim for Huffington Post The California Beer & Beverage Distributors is spending money in the state to oppose a marijuana legalization proposition on the ballot in November, according to records filed with the California Secretary of State. The beer sellers are the first competitors of marijuana to officially enter the debate; backers [...]

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Ken Carman is a BJCP judge; homebrewer since 1979, club member at Escambia Bay and Music City Homebrewers, who has been interviewing professional brewers all over the east coast for over 10 years. The Topic: An Emerald Coast Beer Fest Story Shortly after the sun sets, the crazies come out. No: not goblins, nor gremlins, not [...]

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From Beerinfo.com Author unattributed Chico, CA — Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. announced a partnership with the Trappist-Cistercian Abbey of New Clairvaux to create the only authentic Trappist-style Abbey ales in America. For nearly 1000 years, monks have been brewing ales behind monastery walls. Their closely guarded traditions and techniques produced styles of beer unlike anything [...]

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From the writers at Huffington Post Munich’s famed frothy festival, Oktoberfest, may get all of the glory, but the destinations listed in ShermansTravel.com’s roundup of cities for beer lovers proves that the world is full of destinations where the natives know – and love – their beer, and that are primed for sampling local brews [...]

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