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Our First Beer Post for The Today Show
I humble-bragged the other day that I have been invited to be a regular contributor to the The Today Show’s food blog. My first post appeared this morning, a “beer brawl” between New England and New...
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Beyond TODAY: Are Chocolate Beers the Most Female-Friendly?
Beyond TODAY is an extension of our weekly column for the TODAY Show food blog. Here we’ll look at the same subject from another angle, which will likely be far geekier. Click here to see our latest...
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Beyond TODAY: Noble Rot Q&A with Dogfish Head Founder Sam Calagione
Beyond TODAY is an extension of our weekly column for the TODAY Show food blog. Here we’ll look at the same subject from another angle, which will likely be far geekier. Click here to see our latest...
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Beyond TODAY: Why Craft Beer is Better for You Than Milk
Beyond TODAY is an extension of our weekly column for the TODAY Show food blog. Here we’ll look at the same subject from another angle, which will likely be far geekier. This edition is from the...
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Charlie Papazian Q&A; Why is “Big Beer” Invited to the World Beer Cup?
My post this week for the Today Show Online is about how I went a little nuts when I saw that out of 39 entries, Coors Light won gold at the World Beer Cup for “American-Style Lager or Light Lager.”...
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How Having a Beer with Entourage’s Adrian Grenier Made Me Appreciate Hipsters
Entourage’s Adrian Grenier watches as his partner Justin Hawkins works the church key on a Churchkey. It’s been well-documented in this space that I have a problem with hipsters. There’s something...
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The Beer Aisle is Like a Junior High School Dance
I recently wrote about great beer with awful labels for Today.com, and the whole topic of “shelf presence” got me to thinking how susceptible I am to primal urges when I’m shopping for beer. I see a...
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CraftCans.com Has a Nerdtastic Canned Beer Database
I have no idea why I’m so infatuated with canned craft beers, but they are becoming a bit of an obsession with me, and their ranks are growing at such a crazy pace I can’t keep up with what’s out...
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What Happens When Normal People Vote in a Craft Beer Poll
It turns out that American beer geeks see the world quite differently than the other 90% of beer drinkers. A series of events unfolded over the past few days that demonstrated this point to me quite...
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Are Pricey Brews Ruining Craft Beer?
My most recent weekly post over at Today.com was about Prestige De Nuits, a Belgian Strong Ale that runs $45.00 a bottle. I nearly fainted when I saw the price tag on this one, but it won me over...
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Five Beer Stereotypes That I Wish Would Disappear
I recently wrote about how my uneasiness with Renaissance Faire play-actors has kept me from trying mead, a form of honey wine that’s been around for thousands of years. Every time I see it on the...
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Share Your Favorite Craft Beer to Drink While Watching Your Local NFL Team...
Let’s have some fun, o legion of beer geeks. I’m writing a post for the Today Show’s website in honor of the 2012 NFL season, and I thought it would be cool to recommend a local craft beer to enjoy...
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An Interview with Mamma Mia Pizza Beer Creator Tom Seefurth
Photo Courtesy of All the Write Things: http://pmckuen.wordpress.com/ I recently did an email interview with Tom Seefurth, who along with his wife Atheena created Mamma Mia Pizza Beer, a novelty brew...
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Nerdy GIF: Opening Sly Fox’s New “Topless” Beer Can
I made this animated gif for a piece about Sly Fox’s “new” topless beer can that I wrote for Today.com. The animation wasn’t used on their site, so I figured I post it here to give hard-core beer...
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Q&A with “Brew Dogs” Executive Producer Jared Cotton
It turns out I was right – the same attention-seeking antics that made me so exasperated with James Watt and Martin Dickie, the Scottish brewing duo behind the brewery BrewDog, have me totally digging...
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