Breakfast beer: six beers made with cereal
Let your inner six-year-old rejoice: From the astounding popularity of Milk Bar chain’s cereal milk-flavored fro-yo, shakes, cream soda and cookies to the ever-growing number of actual restaurants that serve nothing...
Lithuania and its peculiar, little-known farmhouse ales
Left to right: Bartender at Snekutis Stepono // Jovaru Alus brewer Aldona Udriene // Brewers at Pakruojo Dvaras // Photos by Joe Stange
Aldona Udriene sat at her dining room table near...
Off Flavors
Accidents happen in beer-and it gets worse than a spilled mug. Slight, often unintentional changes in fermentation, equipment sterilization and ingredients can lend beer some undesirable tastes-referred to as "off flavors"...
25 breweries on the rise
When DRAFT launched 10 years ago, there were fewer than 1,500 breweries in the United States; at the close of 2015, more than 4,000 were churning out beer, with thousands more in...
America’s great beer ’hoods
There are great beer cities—we see you, Denver, Portland and Asheville—but within bubbling brew towns are smaller, concentrated pockets of breweries, bars and bottle shops with their own flavor. We asked readers...
Like lambic? You need to meet its little brother, meerts
Funk Factory Guezeria’s Meerts | Photo by Brad Fedie
When Levi Funk, owner of Madison, Wisconsin’s Funk Factory Geuzeria, read about a beer style called “meerts,” he wasn’t even sure how to pronounce it....
One nation under lager
An anti-lager bias has, for at least the last decade, been a tacit part of the craft beer drinkers’ code. The story goes that lagers are the domain of macro breweries,...
Meet the winner: Hill Farmstead Brewery
Photo by Bob M. Montgomery
Hill Farmstead Brewery
Greensboro, Vermont
Shaun Hill, the owner and brewer of Hill Farmstead, can’t shake Greensboro, Vermont. In fact, he can’t shake the very farm his family has...
Meet Brooklyn’s most accomplished hip-hop record label manager turned brewer
Jesse Ferguson | Photo by Matt Furman
On a recent weekday morning in Brooklyn’s anything-goes East Williamsburg neighborhood, where delivery trucks commandeer bike lanes and forklifts skitter down sidewalks, a potpourri of...
Here’s why (and where) we’re buying craft beer, according to Nielsen data
We each have our own reasons for drinking craft beer, whether that has to do with flavor, consumer values, or just to fit in with our friends. It’s interesting, though, to...
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The top 25 beers of the year: 2013
With 2013 fading in the rearview mirror, I’m ready to confess: These were the most unpredictable 12 months of beer in recent memory. This...
