We figured Christmas Day might be a good day to fly – going West to visit our girls in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Five years ago – remember? The riot at The Capital. I turned on my car radio to hear the Capital had been breached and immediately understood the gravity of the situation.

Kudos to the Tiger, keeping the faith and soldiering on in the flattening world of craft beer. Still cozy, colorful crowd, awesome 28 tap list – only the prices have changed.

There are courses everywhere now and you meet the best people playing disc golf. But, be warned, it’s addictive.

Falling for Kings As the season’s change here at the Oasis, the pace quickens on the downward slope to the opening of Fence Road Farm Brewery. The dampness of fall is in the air as we are visited by a prolonged bout of precipitation after a lengthy dry spell. The hops are harvested and the fruit, save the goji berries which come in late. We had our first frost.   Inside the brewery, the disc golf pro shop has been doing business for a few weeks. Brewing licenses are approved;

Excerpt from Early Days of American Craft Beer by Tony Forder In April 1992 I attended my first microbrewing conference, Brew Bayou, the...

A rollicking ride through colorful mosaic of the early craft beer movement. This book is about my accidental journey in beer, which became a mission when I launched, with my brother-in-law, the brewspaper Ale Street News in 1992. It covers the early days of craft beer, highlighting the personalities, the evangelists who were responsible for this revival of full-flavored, traditional beer styles and the pioneers who eventually took beer in totally new directions, sparking a w

The first stop on our upcoming trip to the Scottish Highlands will be at Williams Bros. Brewing Co., one of the OG's of Scottish craft...

Ain't That What It's All About Blog Recently, at a gas station the kid on duty was so locked into his cell phone he didn’t even notice I...

looks like spring has finally arrived here in the great Northeast instead of just the odd day tease here and there

One of most successful contests which ran for a few years was the Guinness Irish Pub Giveaway Contest – win a pub in Ireland.

I previously wrote, We Were Warned. Yes we were, but it's turning out much worse than many of us expected.

First generation craft beer fans in the US consistently seem to remember their time of transition, when they discovered craft beer,

By Tony Forder I was in England when President Trump was re-elected. Family and friends kept asking me how it could have happened. I was...

So we just returned from our annual European beer tour. Here's a few things we learned about Italian craft brewers and their beer.

Beer, Wine and Truffles in northern Italy video

As we did 11 years ago, we will be gandering around northern Italy with visits to breweries, wineries and the White Truffle Festival.

By Tony Forder I knew that cider is popular in Quebec, having attended this year's Soif du Cidre (Thirst for Cider) festival in Montreal. I have discovered that mead is quite popular also.  At the recent OKTO fest in Repentigny (30 mins north of Montreal), I spent some time sampling at the Miel Nature booth. All kinds of sweet, strong liqeur-ish meads, definitely high end. Monsieur Ali Agougou with a selection of Miel Nature's specialty meads. The ancient beverage of mead is

There's been quite a lot of chit-chat regarding the new direction of the Great American Beer Festival. The old guys don't like it,

I make mead. Mead needs honey. I've helped extract and process honey from combs before but never seen up close how honey is actually...