The Columbia version of the World Beer Festival was wonderful. With two other very mature, very savvy events, I’d forgotten how much fun a beer festival in a new, fresh town could be. The average age was higher. People talked beer with the brewers, with each other. They took notes in the program book. (Shazaam!)
Editor’s Note: Even if you’ve never met Woody Chandler, you know who he is. He’s that guy. The one dressed as a monk at beer festivals around the country. The guy noted beer and whisky writer Lew Bryson calls “one of America's best-known beer drinkers.” He’s the boisterous, passionate, enthusiastic one who is quick to
Quite often being the publisher of a beer magazine is just too cool. Like yesterday. The public relations people from one of my all time favorite brewers, Boston Beer, sent me a box half the size of my desk. In it were three four-packs of their "Imperial Series," each bottle individually wrapped. And I’m
I've been reading that one of the hot new stars on the better beer circuit is … wait for it … lager! Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s Nooner, Firestone-Walker Brewing Co.’s Pivo, Left Hand Brewing Co.’s Polestar, and Lagunitas Brewing Co.’s Pils were all mentioned in stories all over the beer web in the past year