Thailand’s beer revolutionary
Wichit “Chit” Saiklao; photos by Thomas De Cian
On Ko Kret, a swampy island of vines and banana flowers 15 miles upriver from downtown Bangkok, Wichit “Chit” Saiklao, 45, helms a brewer’s...
Beer Barbecue Sauce
Sweet, savory, tangy and ever-so-easy, our beer barbecue sauce goes with everything grillable and is open to experimentation: Pour in a porter when you're cooking beef, an amber ale for chicken,...
The world’s freshest beer
Photo by Meantime Brewing
Our liquid bread is perishable. Fresher beer is better, generally, and the freshest beer is found at breweries. Americans know this, and many of our brewpubs pour from taps...
DRAFT’s top 25 beers of the year
From classic favorites to rule-bending experimentations, this year was an inspired one for beer. We sipped, quaffed and guzzled our way through bottles, barrels and kegs to pare down the best...
Why are so many breweries selling their beer in 15-packs?
We’ve unearthed several trends this year, like year-round amber lagers and this summer’s glut of coconut IPAs. The next big thing? 15-can packages.
San Francisco’s 21st Amendment Brewery sells 15-can packs of its El Sully...
Sister Doris, beer-brewing nun
Sister Doris Engelhard // photo by Peter Von Felbert
Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg is a municipality of Bavaria in southern Germany with a population of about 7,000. It is also the site of the Mallersdorf...
The case against IBUs
Remember the bitterness arms race of the mid-2000s when beer labels boasted of 1,000 IBUs, and palate-wrecking double IPAs were all the rage? That tide seems to have turned (now we have...
Stats prove it: America is still obsessed with IPAs
I’m all for questioning conventional wisdom. Yes, IPAs have been a hot beer style for years, but I’d begun to wonder if, by now, Americans weren’t getting a bit tired of...
Why are beer people so outraged?
When this magazine posted its top 25 Beers of the Year list last year, a Facebook commenter, enraged that some of his favorite beers didn’t make the cut, referred to us...
The top 25 beers of 2017
Hop Mastery
These brewers are adept at drawing bold and diverse flavors from hops, and nowhere is that more evident than in these beers.
Stellar Wind
Finback Brewery
Queens, New York
Triple IPA
Every year, a few...
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Review: Goose Island’s Bourbon County Brand Stout 2015
Photo courtesy of Goose Island
Goose Island Beer Co.’s bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout has become one of the standard bearers of the style, and earned...
