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This App Uses Your Genes to Tell You What Beer to Drink
If funding comes through, researchers hope to produce the BeerDeCoded app, which would help consumers navigate beer DNA and pair brews with their own tastebuds.
This Is What It’s Like to Make the World’s Most Sought-After Beer
If you haven't heard of Heady Topper—the Vermont-brewed IPA that has achieved near-mythic status—then you don't know cult beer. The brew is so popular, in fact, that visitors would secretly hand-bottle it in the brewpub's bathroom and sell it on the...
I Got Buzzed Like Our Forefathers at a Pioneer Reenactment Village
Back in the day, beer was likened to foodstuff and often drunk as a speedy supplement for laborers' daily intake of carbs, sort of like a bread smoothie.
Infected Beers Can Be Delicious Mistakes
It's flu season, and like any living creature, craft beers can get infections. Sometimes, the infection is out of your control and can make your beer taste like skunk and wet cardboard, or if you're lucky, green apples.
Filthy Money and Frozen Pizza Make Tasty Norwegian Beer
It was my first time in Norway, and I wanted to brew something kind of crazy. So my friend Mike and I decided to add pizza and money to our next batch of beer ... literally.
Illegal Beer Is Brewing a Massive Following in Venezuela
Small-batch artisanal Venezuelan craft breweries are on the rise and trying to meet demand for their illegal beers. Prohibition-era laws and black-market economics, be damned.
Expat Hipsters Are Taking Over Taiwan’s Craft Beer Scene
I came to Taiwan to brew my craft beers with locals, but I was blown away by the amount of expat hipsters—the driving force behind Taipei’s craft beer scene.
How to Drink Hallucinogenic Beer Like a Viking Shaman
Nowadays, it’s hard to think about consuming craft beers without hops, but ancient brewers used to flavor their wares with whatever they could find. Foraged herbs and spices even had magical powers, and those beer makers even used them as medicine for...
It Takes Submarines, Hashish, and Volcanic Rocks to Make a Good Beer
Garage Project is a New Zealand company that pushes the envelope with every batch of beer—counting superheated volcanic rocks, submarines, and hashish made from hops among their brew-making toolkit.
Mexico’s Craft Beer Scene Is Exploding
Being a gypsy usually suggests that you’re nomadic. I, myself, am a gypsy brewer, traveling internationally in pursuit of making craft beers. I'm known as the Evil Twin.
A Tribute to Michael Jackson on the Other Michael Jackson's Birthday
Today is the King of Pop's birthday, so it’s only fitting to pay tribute to the other Michael Jackson, the King of Beer (writers). In case you have no idea who we're talking about, he's the dude who influenced your base knowledge—or your local bar's...
Montreal Has a Beer Festival with Identity Issues
I attended Montreal's Festival Mondial de la Biere last weekend, an event that focuses on international beers that feels busier than a United Nations summit. One thing was glaringly noticeable: it's confused as to who it’s catering to. I drank a...