Today's serious beer drinkers have it pretty good. OK, like, really good. It's no secret that the country's craft beer revolut...
The formula for beer is relatively simple: Water, starch, yeast and hops, the flowering cone-shaped plant that gives beer its sharp, bitter bite. Man...
"So the doctors at this hospital," I ventured, "prescribe Bud?" "Not Bud specifically," she said. "Just beer."
One review touted Rokito's chic interior as a symbol of an up-and-coming Uptown gastronomic scene. Shame on them -- dry, grainy pork and oily chips do not contribute to anyone's "scene."
Some argue that the taxonomy and vocabulary used in modern beer tasting is deeply in need of reform. If we see craft beer as the handcrafted wonder it is, we should have a meaningful manner by which we measure its quality.
This blog will be about pairing tons of cheap wine and beer with the amazing food Chicago has to offer. This blog will be about dinner partying. First stop: Irazu, a Costa Rican restaurant in Bucktown.
Yes, I'd lived with a refrigerator for 18 years before I arrived at my freshman dorm, but this fridge was different! It was...well, mini.
It's not that we don't love a good old-fashioned American drinking story - believe us, we do - but something about tales of tying underage college fre...
Sometimes it seems as if everything that ever happened in America happened in a bar. While that might border on hyperbole, it's stunning to think of the role taverns, saloons and bars played in shaping America, before even the Revolution
What is it about Belgian beer that commands so much attention? Innovation and complexity factor strongly, but ...
Since the dawn of the television age, what a president put in his mouth is seasoned more by politics than what comes out of it.
Until recently, beer and cocktails occupied two completely separate sections of drink menus, but more bars and restaurants are fusing the two into one...
In high-proof whiskeys, rye imparts a spicy, drying character. That makes the spirit suitable for sipping solo or as the brawny base for coc...
Photo Credit: Small Kitchen College We've all been there. You're at your favorite sports bar sharing a pitcher with your friends, when all of a su...
Rarely do our noses lead us astray. The perfume of ripe peaches is downright narcotic, beckoning us to bite the ambrosial flesh. The pungent odor of...
You may or may not have noticed, but we are suddenly in a golden age of beer consumption, the likes of which this country has not seen since around ...
While some breweries such as Sierra Nevada, Rogue and Stone distribute their suds from coast to coast, they're the exception to the rule.