Worthy Reads – Black In Beer: Inclusion From The Outside Perspective by Toni Canada
Editor’s Notes: Craft Beer has a diversity problem. Show up at any event and the cast of characters will look familiar and fairly homogeneous: white […]
Category: Beer Writing
Belgian Beer & Beer – Meticulous Experimentation
Editor’s Note: On my recent trip to Belgium in the fall of 2017, this was my first stop and interview of two intense weeks of travel, […]
All About Beer – Beer in the Shadow of War
Editor’s Note: This was my first piece for All About Beer magazine. I spent two weeks traipsing across Belgium and Northern France talking to brewers about their […]
Belgian Beer & Food – Succession in Belgian Beer
Editors Note: Belgian Beer & Food magazine is an English-language publication about Belgium’s beer and food culture. I’ve written many articles for them over the last several issues. […]
Brux Domesticated Wild Ale (A Russian River & Sierra Nevada Brewing Collaboration) Bottle No. 12 – 4/26/2018
Twelve bottles and five and a half years went into this project, the first of my cellar series and the beer that gave it its […]
Belgian Beer & Food – Writing in Relevance
Editors Note: Belgian Beer & Food magazine is an English-language publication about Belgium’s beer and food culture. I’ve written many articles for them over the last […]
Beer Industry Vocabulary: A Guide for Bloggers, Journalists, and Enthusiasts
Update: 1/22/2018 – Thanks to popular request, this will become a regular feature and will further explore beer industry terms. This first post focuses more […]
The Brewing Monks: A New Trappist Brewing in England
On my recent trip to Belgium last September, I learned that several Trappist monks from an English abbey were touring the Trappist breweries of Belgium. […]
Hit the Ground Running: Side Hustlin’
Seems like everyone has a side hustle. It is, after all, the “gig economy.” I’m no exception. I’ve been writing about beer for a little […]
Beer/Cider Photo of the Week: Josh Pfriem and Christopher Barnes at Timmermans
Barrel rooms are hard rooms to shoot photos in. They’re large and dark. Also, the lighting is usually spotty and intense which leads to bright […]
Worthy Reads: Love Beer Hate Pubs? by Des de Moor
Editor’s Note: If you follow anyone in the British beer world on social media, you’re bound to see people commenting on the “pub crisis” in […]
Worthy Reads – Despite Incredible Breadth and Flexibility of English Language, New Brewery Still Opts to Name New Beers after Boobs by Oliver Gray of Literature & Libations
Editor’s note: Oliver Gray is one of better writers in the beer blogosphere. His prose are elegant and fun to read. In this piece, he uses […]
Good Ideas Executed Poorly: The Brewers Association Chases Independence
Good Ideas Executed Poorly: The Brewers Association Chases Independence JUNE 29, 2017 BY CHRISTOPHER BARNES On June 27th, The Brewers Association (BA), craft beer’s not-for-profit trade group, […]
Worthy Reads – IPA: The Executive Summary by Martyn Cornell of Zythophile
Editor’s Note: Martyn Cornell is one of the finest historians of British Brewing currently writing. He’s done more to chase down beer myths and replace them […]
Worthy Reads: The BS Arguments of Craft Beer Sell-Outs: How Brewery Buyouts Hurt Craft Beer by Jim Vorel of Paste Magazine
Editor’s Notes: If you’re a regular reader, you know I’m not a fan of AB-InBev and their business practices. I feel, and with ample evidence, that […]