May 15, 2013
The warm and muggy days of summer are quickly approaching and one category of beer that goes hand in hand with summer is the wheat beers from Belgium, Germany, and the U.S. While the American wheat beers of the late ’80s and early ’90s were a pale imitation of their...
Apr 30, 2013
Living in the Lowcountry, we are lucky in the recent years to have a fantastic supply of local and international craft beer to choose from, beers which should quench most any beer drinker’s thirst. But way before beer was a bullet point on the calling card of the...
Apr 24, 2013
You are likely familiar with the English IPA. Hoppy but nowhere near as bitter as American versions, this British beer has become harder and harder to find these days. Still a great English IPA can be a satisfying beer. This week, however, the particular beer of...
Apr 16, 2013
Although I tend to think of myself as a traditionalist, at least where beer is concerned, there are time when throwing the old textbooks out the window is a very good thing. And although I have recently been quoted as saying something to the effect of wanting more...
Apr 10, 2013
Much has been written in the column lately about the virtues of session beer. Those low alcohol yet tasty brews that you can return to over and over in an afternoon really are fantastic. Still, there is a place for the high gravity brews, some of them are the most...
