Clik here to view.
A pint of puffery
Let’s talk about puffery. You may have noticed that last week Judge Gonzalo Curiel of California’s Ninth Circuit dismissed a lawsuit against MillerCoors. (Yep, the same judge who made news in June when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why craft beer is like indie rock
Here’s a horrible confession: The other day I bought a 15-pack of Founders All Day IPA. I drank some. I thought it was pretty good. I do apologize. Over the time I’ve been drinking Founders, it’s gone...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bourdain bashes beer, gets backlash
Mad world. Proclamation: First We Feast continues to be the only publication some of us (ok, me) want to read in the waning pre-election light. On Tuesday, the site published the latest in its recent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In California’s “Food Court,” a Kona controversy
Let’s get one thing out of the way up front. Sara Cilloni and Simone Zimmer are not blithering numbskulls, at least as far as I know. Their lawyer, Aubry Wand, is almost certainly possessed of enough...
View ArticleClik here to view.
North Carolina craft brewers want to distribute their own beer. Will state...
99 barrels of beer. It’s safe to say the North Carolina craft beer industry’s cup runneth over: The number of breweries in the state quadrupled between 2010 and 2017. Small-scale suds represent an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breweries, bottle shops, and bars are foaming at the mouth over Wicked Weed...
Asheville, North Carolina-based Wicked Weed Brewing on Wednesday announced its acquisition by Anheuser-Busch InBev (that’s ABI, the behemoth that resulted from last year’s merger between AB InBev and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This week in beer consolidation: A hoppy power play and regulators enter the...
Correction May 15, 2017: An earlier version of this article cited a source that said Wicked Weed’s annual Funkatorium festival had been canceled. In fact, the festival has been postponed to August 26....
View ArticleClik here to view.
You’re going to start seeing a lot of upside-down beer bottles
The Brewers Association on Tuesday morning released its new certifying seal, an upside-down beer bottle emblazoned with the following designation: “certified independent craft.” By the time program...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Bud Light’s corn syrup attack ads reveal about the troubled state of Big...
The people (and the press) have spoken: Super Bowl LIII was a bust. This year’s low-scoring game had low ratings to match—the lowest in a decade—complete with a safe, dull halftime show from one of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weak but powerful: The legacy of 3.2 percent beer endures
By the end of this year, there will be precisely one state left—Minnesota—in which an unpopular, Depression-era drink is the standard grocery store option. That beverage is 3.2 percent beer, or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Notes of “horse blanket” and “burnt Band-Aid”: How wild yeasts are bringing...
In 2013, Jeff Mello abandoned an unsatisfying nonprofit gig in D.C. in order to—wait for it—take up home brewing. “It’s a craft beer cliche,” he admits. But his motivator was more than a conventional...
View ArticleA pint of puffery
Let’s talk about puffery. You may have noticed that last week Judge Gonzalo Curiel of California’s Ninth Circuit dismissed a lawsuit against MillerCoors. (Yep, the same judge who made news in June when...
View ArticleWhy craft beer is like indie rock
Here’s a horrible confession: The other day I bought a 15-pack of Founders All Day IPA. I drank some. I thought it was pretty good. I do apologize. Over the time I’ve been drinking Founders, it’s gone...
View ArticleBourdain bashes beer, gets backlash
Mad world. Proclamation: First We Feast continues to be the only publication some of us (ok, me) want to read in the waning pre-election light. On Tuesday, the site published the latest in its recent...
View ArticleIn California’s “Food Court,” a Kona controversy
Let’s get one thing out of the way up front. Sara Cilloni and Simone Zimmer are not blithering numbskulls, at least as far as I know. Their lawyer, Aubry Wand, is almost certainly possessed of enough...
View ArticleNorth Carolina craft brewers want to distribute their own beer. Will state...
99 barrels of beer. It’s safe to say the North Carolina craft beer industry’s cup runneth over: The number of breweries in the state quadrupled between 2010 and 2017. Small-scale suds represent an...
View ArticleBreweries, bottle shops, and bars are foaming at the mouth over Wicked Weed...
Asheville, North Carolina-based Wicked Weed Brewing on Wednesday announced its acquisition by Anheuser-Busch InBev (that’s ABI, the behemoth that resulted from last year’s merger between AB InBev and...
View ArticleThis week in beer consolidation: A hoppy power play and regulators enter the...
Correction May 15, 2017: An earlier version of this article cited a source that said Wicked Weed’s annual Funkatorium festival had been canceled. In fact, the festival has been postponed to August 26....
View ArticleClik here to view.
You’re going to start seeing a lot of upside-down beer bottles
The Brewers Association on Tuesday morning released its new certifying seal, an upside-down beer bottle emblazoned with the following designation: “certified independent craft.” By the time program...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Bud Light’s corn syrup attack ads reveal about the troubled state of Big...
The people (and the press) have spoken: Super Bowl LIII was a bust. This year’s low-scoring game had low ratings to match—the lowest in a decade—complete with a safe, dull halftime show from one of the...
View Article
