I love mundane stuff that’s made from cooler, more interesting stuff.  If you’re like me, then you’ve probably been temped to buy a messenger bag made out of a parachute from a Soyuz rocket, or a coffee table made from a V12 engine block.  Now there’s something else to add to that list just for […]

Will Glass is the co-owner of the Fire House bar in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and he’s pissed.  The object of his ire is Motion 414, a sneaky little addition to the Wisconsin state budget that makes it harder for craft brewers to distribute their wares in the Badger State.  Motion 414 was supported by MillerCoors […]

If you’re reading this, you’re probably a craft beer and/or whiskey fanatic.  For most of you, your “free” time at work is spend trolling these here internets, looking for ways to explore your love of the fermented and the distilled.  But that’s probably not all you are doing.  Some of you probably have other obsessions […]

If you’re a beer geek visiting New York City, it might be hard to know which bars are worth your while.  Sure, there’s Rattle n’ Hum and the Blind Tiger, but after that, things can get a little murky.  That’s where the Good Beer Seal comes in. 

Well, Russian River has topped the charts again.  This time the honor goes to Pliny the Elder, which has been named the best beer of 2011 by the folks over at the American Homebrewers Association.  Instead of soaking in the moment and resting on their laurels, we here at B&WB encourage Vinnie and the gang […]

People tend to do stupid stuff when they’re drunk.  They drive Porsche’s into the woods of Pennsylvania at 140 miles per hour, they get bad tattoos, and, at least in New York City’s West Village, they try to buy puppies.  

Every once in a while you see something that makes you take pause and go “wow – this is something new.”  That’s what I did when I saw these uncanny animated gif loops. They feature craft beer folk hero Sam Calagione brewing up a batch of a new strawberry beer which Dogfish Head is prototyping […]

Can’t say we didn’t see this coming.  Rhonda Kallman, former Sam Adams executive and brewer of Moonshot 69, the gimmicky caffeinated beer featured in Beer Wars, is officially calling it quits.  She will be shutting down her “brewery” (her beers were contract brewed) this month, and will no longer be heaving her cleavage at bartenders […]

Last year, a 170 year old shipwreck was found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, and among the various baubles recovered were a handful of intact bottles of beer.  Finnish researchers recently cracked one open, only to find the bottle had been infiltrated by sea water.  When analyzing the brew, they found malt sugars, […]

I’m all for industrious folks making a buck, but sometimes you have to ask – do we really need this new doohicky?  In this case, it’s the $0.99 Beermometer app, a new way to keep track of the beers you are chilling. 

There’s nothing more wholesomely all-American than milk.  You put it on your cereal, you put it in your coffee, you even cook with it.  According to data from the Beverage Marketing Corporation, the average American consumed a whopping 20.4 gallons of cow juice last year.  That’s more than distilled spirits, wine, energy drinks, tea and […]

As you can see, we’ve just overhauled the look and some of the functionality of the site.  Some of you may recall that we’ve been looking for a way to make the site content more “scannable” than our old layout allowed, but we were having trouble finding the right WordPress theme.  Well thanks to a […]

This was disappointing.  I cracked open a Rogue John John on Friday evening, only to be greeted by a thin and sour tasting beer. I’ve had it before and don’t remember it being a sour (it’s Rogue Dead Guy Ale aged in Rogue Dead Guy whiskey barrels), so I think there might be a quality […]

I guess some folks just HAVE to be first.  In the case of Lanny Wagner, that means paying roughly 300 times the going rate for a can of beer. And I thought they gouged you at the ballpark!

I’ll admit, I’m probably the easiest person to assassinate in America.  Why?  Because I’m a creature of habit. Want to shoot me as I drive by?  Be at the bottom of Skyline Drive at 8:37 on any weekday morning.  Want to poison me?  Inject the tubs of Original flavor Tribe Hummus with Strychnine at the […]