Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I’ve encountered plenty of cocktail books that include the occasional syrup or tincture made from homegrown herbs, but Slow Drinks goes lightyears beyond this, offering recipes dependent as much on their locally foraged modifiers as they are their base spirit. Thankfully, Danny’s book remains valuable for the less outdoorsy reader, as well.

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Imbibe Magazine

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee living in Haywood County in the North Carolina mountains just west of Asheville, Morgan Owle-Crisp long held caution around beer. She names the craft beer scene in Asheville as inspiration: With fewer than 100,000 people, the town has welcomed more than 50 breweries over the past two decades.

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Drinkhacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It serves the book well, as it provides a welcoming framework ideal for beginners looking to dive into spirits for the first time (i.e. wine or beer drinkers) but simply have no idea where to begin, or which spirit will align with their taste preferences. 224 pages.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

to-morrow, head to middle brow and write letters to Michigan voters and then buy a beer for a penny. Illuminated Brew Works has their Halloween party on Saturday , and then hosts a Boozy Book Fair at noon on Sunday. Big day for books: On Sunday, Half Acre also hosts a book + vinyl fair called Reads & Records from 1-6pm.

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

According to Marrero, the new book, which is inspired by years of Speed Rack competitions, is “the largest collection of cocktails by the femme bartender community,” with creative and fun cocktails beautifully photographed by Megan Rainwater. See a couple of recipes from the book below.) This book is proof. —

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VinePair

DECEMBER 10, 2023

But we’re also keen on sharing the knowledge that makes their contents special, and that’s where the best new drinks books come in. Here are some of the best drinks books to gift in 2023. The New French Wine: Redefining the World’s Greatest Wine Culture [Two-Book Boxed Set] Jon Bonné, Ten Speed Press, March 2023.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Suncatcher Brewing has been on our radar since they rolled out a few beers in May 2023 at a Beer Temple event. You might recall that those beers — a pale ale, a red ale and a sub-4% ABV brown ale — were brewed by Half Acre head brewer Matt Gallagher at no less than Hill Farmstead. That was fun, wasn’t it?

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 20, 2024

Anyone get a chance to try the options from Tilquin Gueuze at Hopleaf or Beer Temple? ” I mentioned on Friday that Hopleaf was part of the release, and then I saw that Beer Temple was also. I never get to play in the big beer-release reindeer games, so I of course went in to check it out. Just buy the book!)

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Just Drinks

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Boston Beer Co. has already booked two separate impairment charges related to the Dogfish Head brewery in its Q3 2023 and Q3 2022.

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VinePair

JULY 10, 2024

Making beer has long been the proving ground for innovative technologies, from the earliest mercury thermometer and first saccharometer through the introduction of the cylindroconical fermenter and on to the modern hop torpedo. If you put 10 beers in front of them and one or two are molecular, they will not be able to pinpoint them.”

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JUNE 24, 2024

First up, some breaking news this afternoon: Short Fuse has announced that they were the ones who purchased the brand rights to Metropolitan Brewing , and will begin brewing Metro’s beers for sale from their Schiller Park taproom to start. Someone else making their beers without them being involved isn’t Metro to me.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JULY 12, 2024

These emails depend on reader support to continue, and fewer and fewer beer-focused publications are around to support, promote and report on this industry. Big week for NA beer as Athletic also announced their own $50M equity investment. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Craft Beer & Brewing’s annual Best in Beer issue has dropped , and with it come a number of accolades for Chicagoland and Midwestern breweries. (No Sounds like a great reason to crack open a beer or two. Former Tribune beer reporter Josh Noel is hosting a conversation at Hop Butcher on Wednesday, Nov.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This Friday email has never been an events catch-all (otherwise you’d stop scrolling after the third screen of Beer Yogas and Trivia Nights) but there’s a ton of cool stuff happening over the next four weeks. Outdoor beers and oysters? Sling bags of malt, move kegs, get shredded, then drink a beer. Yes please.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 13, 2024

Any time we lose someplace with nearly 40 years of beer history in Chicago, even if their profile has dropped off a lot over the last decade, I think it’s still worth acknowledging. My favorite place to be was the in cellar/basement when we received new stock of delicate, intentionally crafted, beer from around the world.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Shortly after our last email, Byers Brewing Company in DeKalb announced that they’d be closing when the beer runs out sometime next month. I don’t want to cover all the related restaurant closings here, but the announcement from Dusek’s Tavern & Dining Room about their closure on NYE is beer-adjacent enough to mention.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

APRIL 19, 2024

If you enjoyed their beers, good news — they already have plans to keep popping up around town. From their announcement: “This isn’t the end - it’s a transition…We will continue to harness the kindness and power of the Chicago beer community and to share our visions of beer and brewing. Yes please.

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Drinkhacker

JUNE 6, 2025

To cultivate this knowledge, I frequently turn to books, primarily those backed by established publishers, though I remain open to compelling self-published works. Prior to discovering this book, Poppy Bruce Potash was an unknown name to me. The author disclaims all liability in connection with the use of this book.”

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JUNE 10, 2024

I’m assuming that there is a lot of crossover between the people that read these emails and the people that listen to The Beer Temple podcast, but if you didn’t see it, they just released an episode looking back at the time that Tony Magee joined the show just two weeks before announcing the sale of half of the brewery to Heineken.

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Chilled Magazine

JUNE 9, 2025

MGM Tower at Borgata features 757 guestrooms and suites; 27,000 square feet of meeting and event space; two indoor and two outdoor heated pools with distinct experiences; and five boutique retail shops.

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VinePair

MARCH 4, 2024

Whether it be the hop resins at the bottom of an IPA , the yeast at the bottom of a saison , or the wheat floating around in a hefeweizen , most beer drinkers have been faced with a millimeter of sketchy-looking dregs sitting in their glass. ’s Nebuleus Beer. Is it safe to drink beer dregs? It doesn’t give you the sh*ts.

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Chilled Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Alcoholic beverages date back to 13,000 BCE, when the first evidence of brewing beer was documented. Drawing inspiration from vintage bartending books — including Jerry Thomas’s “How to Mix Drinks,” he created 24 cocktails, which were later pared down to a selection of 16. events helped to shape the cocktails of today.

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VinePair

JANUARY 23, 2024

Coors Light Beer Train first barreled through the American landscape in 2005, bringing ice-cold refreshment to the nation’s 21-and-uppers through the brand’s iconic commercial. Now, after 12 years out of transit, the Beer Train is making its anticipated return for the 2024 Super Bowl. EST from Jan. 28 through Feb.

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PubClub

JANUARY 22, 2025

Lets make this last weekend one for the books! In between it was a hot singles hangout on weekend nights and also a comforable place for locals such as myself to go for other sports events, to take visiting friends, to meet out locals friends or just to have a beer by one’s self. See you Friday + Saturday at Boot.

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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

Beverage curator for NBC’s Today Show, nationally recognized mixologist, author of the acclaimed cocktail recipe book “Brunch God,” founder of Brunch God NY and operates venues in New York City. Joan Villanueva San Antonio, Texas Long time bartender/curator of spirits. Basically, a witch doctor. Expertise: Rhum/Rum.

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VinePair

JANUARY 17, 2024

There’s no shortage of cheap beer out there, but 6-packs that hover below the $1 mark are practically unheard of. And while it may sound like an urban legend that one uncle likes to tell when he reminisces about his college days, it turns out such a beer did, in fact, exist. The Pabst-owned brew clocked in at 3.2 Even in the ‘70s, G.I.s

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

At Lucian Books and Wine , a bookstore-slash-wine bar in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood, wine director and owner Jordan Smelt also doesn’t advertise his list as explicitly French, but it leans heavily on French wine. We’ve been buying their wines for 15 years or more, we just love them,” he says.

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Imbibe Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2024

Tequila Spritz | Photo by Yuliya Razudkevichus Top It Off For ingredients that don’t do well frozen, such as sparkling wine, cola, or ginger beer, or that will exceed the 20 percent, save them for the serve. And even though his take on the El Diablo spices up the classic with ginger liqueur, it still requires a top off of ginger beer.

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VinePair

MARCH 15, 2024

Founded in Dublin in 1759 by Arthur Guinness, the brewery produces one of the most iconic beers on Earth. The beer is so beloved that there are even Instagram pages with thousands of followers exclusively dedicated to reviewing draft pours, whether they’re good , bad, or ugly. billion per year. Think again.

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A Bar Above

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The “big upgrade” to this list was the addition of non-alcoholic beer like O’Douls. DIY mocktail books abound, such as the famed Aviary Restaurant’s Zero, A New Approach to Non-Alcoholic Drinks. INSPIRED FLAVORS: COCKTAIL BOOKS THAT EXPLAIN FLAVOR PROFILES Aristotle said, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

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A Bar Above

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Since excessive drinking has been on the rise during the pandemic, we really want to focus on how to make delicious, spirit-free cocktails and enjoy other beverages such as nonalcoholic beer and wine. Top with ginger beer. MIXERS Ginger beer : Our community group of bartenders specifically recommends Fever Tree.

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Just Drinks

JUNE 11, 2025

” Innovative packaging collection hub contributing to cleaner communities and reducing waste in Nigeria Events Buy Reports Newsletters JD News UK beer group Keystone looks to double revenue with new investment In its last 12-month trading period, which ended in May, Keystone booked roughly £20m ($27m) in revenue.

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The Liquor Thing

MAY 13, 2020

A good book can be your best and true companion. These following four books, which I have selected describe three different types of liquors that help you to build a good knowledge of these three liquors. Home Brewing: 70 top secrets and tricks of brewing This book is about more than 70 effective tricks and secrets of home-brewing.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of tasting rooms in the region, the couple wanted to ensure they were hitting the right ones especially considering each visit had to be booked ahead of time with a pre-paid deposit. And theyre not alone. Tune in for more. Zach is reading: Has the Title Master Sommelier Become a Paradox?

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VinePair

MARCH 6, 2024

degree) beer cascade down the side, aiming for the gold harp, until it’s three-quarters full. Maybe they’ll pour the beer in two or three or even four parts, leaving the remaining third or two-thirds or three-quarters of the beer to settle for varying stretches of time. But what is right at this point? Wagner says. “Or

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A Bar Above

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

It opens beer bottles. I know it sounds silly, but trust us: A beer and wine bottle opener is a bartender’s best friend. It can be fun to track how many steps you take during a busy shift, and it might be easier to justify that extra piece of chocolate cake or end-of-the-night beer if you hit your 10,000 steps 2 hours into your shift.

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Australian Bartender

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

A few years ago, the only drink options at restaurants were wine or beer, but now venues are offering more cocktails, even non-alcoholic pairings. Ian Burrell’s new book, A Flavour-Focused Approach to the World of Rum, is available for purchase in Australia from online retailers.

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