“Where the hell are you and why the hell aren’t you posting?” That’s the reader email that greeted me this morning –- 14 or so days since our last post to our beer and sun-soaked corner of the Internet. A two week hiatus isn’t so long in the grand scheme of things, but apparently its [...]
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What is a “Craft Brew”?
I’m late to the party on this one because I was out of town (and I’ve been drinking Olde English 800). Over at Seen Through a Glass Lew Bryson is mulling the meaning of the term “craft beer” and whether it applies Anheuser-Busch’s Beach Bum Blonde Ale. There’s a lot of back and forth in [...]
History of Beer Part 2: 1516 – 1898 AD
So I was wandering around the Internet late last night looking for some inspiration on for a big BBQ we’re having this weekend and I found an obscure little blog called Uptown Flavor with what looks to be a great Cajun Bourbon chicken recipe. Coincidentally, it also had a fresh post titled The History of [...]
The Top Beer Bloggers Revealed – Part 2
Last Friday I wrote about a little experiment I did in an attempt to determine the most popular beer blog on the web. Basically I wrote a script that does a little triangulation between ranking systems on a blog aggregator (Technorati), a search engine (Google) and a blog reader (Bloglines), and tosses back the results. [...]
The Top Beer Bloggers Revealed
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most popular beer blogger of them all? Yeah, okay, dorky intro, but it’s an interesting question because all the beer blog readers I know seem to have different lists of blogs they read. What’s more each claims that his (or her) blogroll contains “the most popular and [...]
Best of Beer Blogs #1
So much beer, so many beer bloggers, so little time. How does the well-informed beer aficionado keep up with them all? Well, unless you’re willing to ship your excess beer to us (and we will take it), we can’t help you with the first part, but we certainly can help you with the second. Since [...]


