Sherman Thacher © Allyson Magda When it comes to crafting their signature cuvées, winemakers opt for different grape varieties, barrel types, and ...

It’s that time of year again: Oktoberfest. We have Bell’s Oktoberfest Märzen. This 5.5% ABV beer spends six weeks maturing in ...

The market for independent beer may have contracted somewhat, but the breweries can still put on a show. A couple of weeks ago the Dublin Beer Festival ...

Edrington Focused On Bolstering Its Malt Portfolio For The Long Term September 23, 2026 With a million cases in global volume and ...

One of the artifacts I have from my frat days is a T-shirt from Swamp Water in 1990. It was a party where we’d create a swamp behind the house that you had ...

Light beer isn’t associated with craft beer. It is a bad word with craft beer enthusiasts. I am one of those enthusiasts. I usually don’t ...

I'm all in favour of small breweries diverging from the ubiquitous craft styles, but a Rotbier, Rascals? I'm not, generally, a fan of Nuremberg's totemic ...

The end of summer. The last stragglers back from holidays. Yellowjackets everywhere. Tired sweetpeas starting to show their age. Tomatoes ripening faster ...

When California precision meets over three centuries of Franconian brewing tradition, the result isn’t just another ...

The news broke late yesterday morning that Humphrey Smith had passed away.  The doyen of Samuel Smith Brewery was only 81 - though to some he had been ...