Below is a video interview with the kids over at Facebook way back in 2005, as they are celebrating their 3 millionth user with a keg of Heineken.  Yes, Heineken. 

As a beer nerd, you gotta love yeast, the industrious little critters who give every beer you drink the magical spark of life.  You may know that yeast cells congregate in little clumps converting sugars into alcohol, but do you know WHY they work in teams? Scientists at a small Massachusetts college (some place called […]

I just received an email from Northern Brewer saying they are having a 40% off sale on their Deluxe Home Brewer Starter Kit from now until August 22nd.  The kit is the same one I bought to get started and I’m very happy with it – it has everything you need and nothing you don’t.  […]

Good beer always makes you feel better.  That’s true after a long day at work, or after a verbal skirmish with your significant other,  or as it turns out, when the world in general seems to be going to hell.  Even as there is unrest in the streets of England’s capitol and markets around the […]

I’m spending a couple of days in Milwaukee this week, and I decided to drag my family downtown for lunch yesterday.  My sisters recommended the Milwaukee Ale House so we decided to check it out.  They mostly said they liked the food (which wasn’t anything special) and were sort of “whatever” about the beer, which […]

I’ll admit it – I’m not the spring chicken that I once was.  There was a time when I had no interest in beers with an ABV below 8%.  All I wanted were boozy, toe curling brews that hammered my face with flavor.  But then something happened.  I got old, and have begun to appreciate […]

Something odd happened to me on Saturday evening.  I cracked open a beer, took a sip, and realized that I had something better to do than drink it.  This isn’t typical, as enjoying a beer on Saturday night is one of my favorite leisure activities.  But that evening was different.

I’m super jammed at work today and Don is off in Las Vegas schooling his boys in the fine art of pole dancing appreciation, so I reached into the vault for this one.  It’s a quiz we put together to help you determine your personal level of craft beer obsession.  As many of you guys […]

Ask Men just released their 2011 Great Male Survey and it turns out that the majority of dudes (35%) consider beer to be the “ultimate man’s drink.” Whiskey came in second at 28% (I knew there was a reason it’s after beer in our blog title!), Scotch at 27%, “whatever Don Draper is drinking” (ugh) […]

The world got a little less hardcore last week, as folks over in Russia have officially declared beer to be alcohol.  Before now, anything under 10% alcohol by volume was considered a foodstuff, not booze.  You know, like breakfast cereal! 

I really thought that the trend of creating beers for a certain demographic would peter out, but instead they just keep on coming.  First we reported on Calsberg’s beer for ladies (and stylish men), then it was the Mexican beer aimed at the gays, then there was Chick premium lager. Now Molson Coors are jumping […]

Leave it to beer geeks to muck up an otherwise sacred event.  If you’re from Utah, you know that July 24th is Pioneer Day, an official state holiday commemorating the arrival of the first Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley on that day in 1847.  The day is marked with fireworks, parades, rodeos and, […]

We often say that our readers are the lifeblood of this site.  You give us your time, your feedback and your expertise, which frequently outstrips our own.  So when we lined up a (typed) interview with Sam Calagione, we figured we owe you guys and gals the chance to chime in with your questions for […]

Here’s something I never thought I’d say; I wish I lived in Buffalo, New York.  Okay, so it’s not true – I’d kill myself in the winter – but life certainly just got a little more interesting for beer geeks in Western New York. Twelve Sunoco gas stations in the region have been testing out […]

early I’m commuting into NYC today by train, and even though it’s early I could sure go for a beer. I’m packed into a small seat on a bumpy tin can having to listen to a woman with a thick Jersey accent prattle on loudly about nothing important on her cell phone. But at least […]