As a beer drinker we need to know the language of marketing. When you’re staring at a sixpack or bomber of beer at your local bottle shop, you might encounter some unfamiliar phrases. Here are five essential terms you should know. Bottle Conditioned Bottle...
One of the best things about beer is the awesome variety of styles to choose from. This gorgeous interactive guide from the Brewers Association showcases 77 US beer styles to help you decide what to drink next. We’ve shared a beer style flowchart with you...
When I go home to Tennessee, nobody ever asks me if I want a beer. “How ’bout a col’beer?” say the Southerners as they toss a can through the air. (All one word.) The ice cold brew cuts through the summertime humidity nicely. This frigid...
There’s so many types of beer out there that it can be tough to decide what you want to imbibe. This handy flow chart is here to help you with that. This flow chart from Mike Newman at Cool Material starts off with one of the most important questions when it...
The thought of one person walking around the grounds of beer festivals for a couple of days and objectively telling you what the “top” or “best” beers are is blatantly absurd. There are hundreds of beers to sample through, and the fact that...
Hoptimus Prime. Smooth Hoperator. Hoptical Illusion. If a brewer has the chance to make a hop pun (and odds are good, thanks to the hop boom), they’ll make it. But NPR’s The Salt says that the explosion of craft beer over the past decade has led to a legal...
