Holiday beers have been around since the Vikings. They drank to their Norse gods during their Jul celebrations (the Scandinavian Yuletide which was December 21st). Even after Christianity became the sanctioned religion of Norway, a law continued that financially penalized any household that failed to brew a Jul beer, as noted by ‘Serious Eats’ beer blogger…
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Beer, Beautiful Beer; Where Mainstream and Craft Collide
Beer, Beautiful Beer; Where Mainstream and Craft Collide A recent conversation about which “mainstream” lager I prefer brought about a new juxtaposition in my never ending quest for ultimate beer knowledge; are some craft beers now considered mainstream? My immediate response to the lager question was ‘Yuengling”, but within a breath I remembered that Yuengling,…
The Craft Beer Illusionists…
Much like Donald Trump, who identifies a marketing opportunity and capitalizes upon it, ultimately making a monster of it, InBev has feverishly been working to beat the (and if you can’t beat ’em buy ’em,) craft beer market…and no, I don’t like pumpkin beers nor handlebar mustaches. Anheuser-Busch InBev is currently in merger talks with…
The Nomenclature of Craft Beer Styles
Hyper expansion of craft beer, due to an ever increasing consumer demand, has blurred the genres that categorize these quality beers. I’m going to pontificate in this here little beer censure specifically about the new India Pale Ale (IPA) genre now popularly known as ‘Session IPAs’. IPA’s, and American Pale Ales, or APA’s, are actually…