Hoppy Thanksgiving
Pop quiz: What are the top-five grocery items sold during the week of Thanksgiving, excluding turkey? The obvious — milk, eggs and butter — are top-sellers year-round, including Thanksgiving week, but...
View ArticleCould You Pick Your Favorite Beer Out of a Lineup?
Are you particular about your beer? Loyal to a specific lager? Convinced your fave brand of beer is better than the other bottles or cans crowding the cooler? Many of us are. But do you think you could...
View ArticleWhat Pantone Color Is Your Favorite Beer?
Beer cans are generally awash in a variety of colors: There’s the red, white and blue of Budweiser, PBR and Old Style, and the green, white and red — set against silver or gold — of a Heineken or...
View ArticleBeyond the Bottle: New Ways to Cook with Beer for Oktoberfest
Just days ago Oktoberfest, the annual celebration of all things Bavarian, kicked off in Germany, but on this morning’s all-new episode of The Kitchen, the co-hosts brought the party stateside with a...
View ArticleA Game-Day Brew for Every Team
By Cindy AugustineWhether your team is playing in the Super Bowl this weekend or you’re still holding out for next year, pick up a craft brew representative of your team’s hometown. We’ve got a beer...
View ArticleSpike Your Meats with Beer for Father’s Day
If there’s one thing that dads seem to love, universally, it’s meat. Following closely in second place would be beer (or maybe beer comes first if he’s a vegetarian or other type of meat abstainer)....
View ArticleOpen a Beer and Bring on the Cheese
Wine and cheese, the perfect pair? Well, yes, but there’s also beer. The porters, stouts and ales we favor in winter — rich and sweet, with subtle notes of chocolate and caramel, fruit and spice — make...
View Article8 Ways to Cook with Beer
Got extra six-packs lying around from football Sunday? Instead of drinking them (all), put some of the extra brew to use in beer-spiked recipes. These dishes are safe for the whole family to devour,...
View ArticleGuinness Is Going Vegan
Soon even vegetarians and vegans will be able enjoy a nice pint of Guinness. That’s because the stout will no longer include traces of dried fish bladder. Perhaps you didn’t know Ireland’s favorite...
View ArticleBig Beer Merger Will Create One Giant Megabrewer
Soon, when you grab a beer with friends, even if each of you orders a different brand, there’s a pretty good chance they’ll all be made by the same brewer. The recently announced $106 billion...
View Article5 Better Ways to Drink Beer on Game Day
Game Day is one of the most divisive days of the year, but if there’s one thing that can loosen tightly-wound team alliances and unite us all, it’s booze. Recent Nielsen data shows that the week prior...
View ArticleChefs’ Picks: Irish Pubs
St. Patrick’s Day is a fun holiday to celebrate, but it’s become more socially acceptable to get drunk off of green beer and do a bar crawl than to actually sit down and enjoy some nice bar fare and a...
View ArticleThe Flavored-Beer Trend Is On the Rise
Brace yourself, beer purists. The market for flavored beers — whether pumpkin, habanero and jalapeno peppers, grapefruit, peach, chocolate or coconut — is growing fast. And millennials are largely...
View ArticleYour Next Backyard Barbecue Needs Beer Gelatin Shots
Many of us love an ice-cold beer on a hot summer day. A few of your favorite cans or bottles can play a vital supporting role at a cookout (the star, of course, is still whatever you throw on the...
View Article3 of a Kind: Chef-Driven Breweries
3 of a Kind checks out three places across the country to try something cool, new and delicious. Beer has long been the post-shift drink of choice for chefs, but it’s rarely been the front-runner for...
View ArticleBy the Numbers: Small Beer’s Big Year
If you’re a beer drinker and variety is your thing, you’re in luck. You could now drink a beer from a different American brewery every single day for more than thirteen and a half years (13.5 years!)...
View ArticleWhy Beer Belongs in Your Food, Not Just Your Glass
If the word “six-pack” doesn’t conjure an image of chiseled abs, but rather a cardboard carton tailor-made for carrying frosty bottles of ice-cold beer, then you are on the same page as we are. Now,...
View ArticleAmerica Is a Nation of Beer Lovers
It may seem as if America is becoming a nation of wine sippers — and it’s true that many of those who prefer wine today were more likely to opt for other kinds of alcoholic beverages a decade ago. But...
View ArticleBeer Maker Aims to End Food Waste One Beer at a Time
A new beer made from old bread is the toast of England — and now it’s set to arrive stateside. Toast Ale, which is made using “fresh, surplus” breads that haven’t sold at bakeries day’s end and unloved...
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