Feb 11, 2015
There’s been a lot of talk about Budweiser lately. Some say it’s a bitter, angry old company that’s lost the plot and have become irrelevant. I think that’s a stretch, Anheuser-Bush (AB) still makes significant amounts of money selling beer. Others think Bud’s Super...
Feb 4, 2015
Stout ale, the darkest of the family, has made an amazing recovery in the last decade. It was not long ago when the only stout to be had in the USA was Guinness. You could do worse for a beer option, but even doing worse was not possible if you wanted a worse stout....
Jan 29, 2015
The darkest, strongest, most flavorful, and complex of all the stout family of ales is the Russian Imperial Stout. The British, makers of the world’s finest beers, brewed their export stouts and porters to be powerful and alcoholic to withstand the long journey across...
Jan 21, 2015
I once subscribed to Paste magazine. I quite enjoyed it; not exactly sure why I didn’t renew my subscription. I recently came across a box of old issues and they look to have run from around 2005 to 2007. That was a tough and exhausting year, so likely I just didn’t...
Jan 14, 2015
For me to tell beer enthusiast to visit Belgium almost sounds redundant, if not ridiculous. Of course any suds sipper worth their salt would be interested in a visit to one of the great historical homes of beer. Of the important European brew countries, it could...
