How could I say no to a sweet and fruity Belgian tripel brewed with, as the description states, "a Southeast Asian twist"? The twist in this case was a dose of rice in the brew's grain bill to lighten the body and some thai basil for spicy fresh flavor. Nope, there was no saying no to this one. More

Beer doesn't play a huge role in my everyday life. When the weather's hot, I'll share one with friends in the backyard, and when we go out for Mexican or Indian food, I generally order beer. But recently while traveling in New Jersey, I started to think about beer quite a bit. It seemed that lots of restaurants, family, and friends were cooking with beer. From chicken to kabobs to grainy baguettes, I noticed it everywhere. More

Quick beer-brewing lesson: most beer is made from barley. Barley contains gluten. Therefore, most beer is not gluten-free. This is why I am absolutely fascinated by this new process by which the Craft Brew Alliance and Widmer Brothers Brewing in Oregon have made a barley-based gluten-free beer. It's science meets craft brewing in the best possible way. More

If you're like most people, you've got your favorite cocktails: your go-to summer drink, your warm-me-up winter drink, the quick before-dinner drink you mix for yourself on a busy weeknight after a long day of work. I find in my day-to-day life, there are few surprises when it comes to cocktails. Recently I learned I was wrong. There's a lot your bartender is not telling you. More

If only they made scratch-and-sniff computer screens, you'd be able to smell the heady hop aroma coming out of this glass. It's pretty intense. Almost as intense as the beer itself: to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the release of their groundbreaking Ruination IPA, Stone Brewing Co. crammed a total of five pounds of hops into every barrel of their celebration ale. That, my friends, is a lot of hops.
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You can't find a much better True American Story than the rise of the craft beer industry in the last several decades. From the bare handful of breweries that survived the Prohibition era, there are now over 1,700 thriving craft breweries across the country. Raise a glass and give a shout-out to your favorite local brewery and their beers this Independence Day. Here are 15 we especially enjoy. More

It reads like a headline from The Onion, but this bit of news isn't fiction: Craft brewery Rogue Ales is working on a new beer made with a strain of wild yeast produced from the follicles of brewmaster John Maier's beard. More

Lazy summer afternoons call for lazy summer brews — the kind you can sip for hours while laying in a hammock and still feel pleasantly buzzed. This Every Day IPA, a new low-alcohol session ale from Founders Brewing Company, is just such a beer. More

It's hot and muggy outside, and you know how good it feels to throw back a beer or two with friends. Well, Man's Best Friend wants to get in on the action, too. Say hello to Bowser beer, a non-alcoholic, non-carbonated "beer" for dogs! More

The goal of any small business is to grow into a bigger business. But when your whole image is based on being small and crafty, this can pose a quite a pickle. Sierra Nevada Brewing Company and Sam Adams were small craft breweries once, but are they still? What about increasingly popular breweries like New Belgium, Dogfish Head, and Rogue? More