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This Brewery Just Invented an Oreo-Flavored Beer
Right now, we all need something stronger than milk to dunk our cookies in.
Inside London's Secret Homebrewing Club
Based above a London beer shop, the club meets to discuss brewing techniques and swap tasting notes. “You’re making smaller batches than commercial brewers so you can afford to take risks,” says one attendee.
All the Ways Craft Beer Got Weird This Year
Even with our appreciation for the truly obscure, we couldn’t fathom how brewers came up with some of the crazy brews that we featured this year. Stag semen chocolate stout, anyone?
This Beer Sommelier Is Trying to Teach Germans to Drink American Brews
Sylvia Kopp is one of the world’s top beer sommeliers and Europe’s official American craft beer ambassador, but at home some people equate her taste with heresy.
These Jam-Makers Just Made It OK to Have Beer for Breakfast
We spoke to the Vermont couple selling 3,000 jars of “Beer Jelly” a week, a spreadable jam made with stouts and pale ales from local breweries.
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.
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.
Sniff at Your Own Risk: Beers That Reek
Some craft brews treat you kindly, like a overeager gentleman on a first date. But other beers put some stank on the nose and throw your senses into an orgy of odors. These are just some those beers, and they smell to high heaven.
I Ate Myself Horny at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark
At Denmark's most famous music festival, I sat down to a four-course aphrodisiac dinner that promised to stir my animal urges with crispy balls of blood pudding, “hay milk” cheese, and a hell of a lot of booze.
The Walter White of Beer
Mikkel Borg Bjergsø, a Danish chemistry teacher, ended up founding one of the world's most acclaimed microbreweries, Mikkeller. Now, he's running a budding international beer empire that's much better than meth.
Elvis Presley Platter
It'll be just like you're hanging out with The King, shitting yourselves to death in Heaven.