The Spirit World

The BitterSweet Partnership, which has been set up by Coors Brewers aims to address and remove the gender imbalance that exists around beer consumption and targeting. 
The BitterSweet Partnership conducted research of over 2,000 women to get their thoughts and found that there are very real barriers and myths that exist around women and beer. They […]

I love beer that’s so thick you can chew it. I adore heavy stouts and I.P.A.s make my bottom all tingly, but there’s a special place in my being that’s purely reserved for barleywine. Just the fact that the IBUs can get well over 100 in this wonderful style of beer is enough to intrigue…well, […]

To signal Oktoberfest and craft beer in the US, the folks at Food and Wine magazine have put together a list of fifteen recipes that are the perfect complement to a glass of beer.  Everything from a Beer-Battered Cod with Tartar Sauce and a Flatiron Steak Salad to a Jamiacan Jerk Chicken and a Barbecued Beef […]

Let’s start with something fun. I don’t believe I’ve ever had a Carlton Draught, but I’m going have to try one after watching this commercial.
Robort Hess — bless him — has a new episode of The Cocktail Spirit out on The Small Screen Network. This week, the Mojito.
Yikes! It snuck up on me. The Kentucky […]

I just walked in the door. I’m back from a fun filled weekend in Boston where I had to explain that living in New York doesn’t automatically make you a New Yorker (evidently there is some rivalry between New York and Boston concerning some sports teams).
The easiest way to get a beer in Boston is […]

One of my other jobs is being the editor of the Long Island Beer Guide which means that I have to drive around and find the greatest places on Long Island to have a beer and write about it.
On a recent trip out to New Suffolk I discovered this place called Legends that had a […]

In New York there’s a five cent deposit on all beer bottles so once a month or so, I load the car up and take all my empties back to the beer store. Last Saturday was the time for cleaning of my basement brewery, so the bottles had to go.
When I got to the beer […]

Today, all the really cool beer bloggers are writing about Belgian dubbels as part of The Session. So if you don’t have any clue what a dubbel is, today is your lucky day.
My first experience of Belgian beer was sharing a Chimay Premiere (Red label) with one of my best friends (my beer mentor, actually, […]

On Long Island St Patrick’s Day is not just a day, it’s a season. Starting the weekend before and sometimes running until the week after March 17th are the community parades commemorating… what? St Patrick? The Irish? One would almost think it was the time of year for people to stand around Main Street and […]

As you know, I just got back from a week in Denver, drinking Denver brewed beer and sipping (not so wee) drams of single malt scotch. On my last day in Denver I walked over to Flying Dog for their weekday afternoon tour (4 pm). I wish that I had found the Flying Dog tasting […]