All About Beer Magazine

07/31/2025

Beer recipes are always evolving. Recently, a group got together to faithfully rebrew a west coast IPA that happened to be the original version of Swami, the famed Pizza Port Brewing Beer.

Listen to the latest episode of Drink Beer, Think Beer w/ to learn about Type-97.

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https://allaboutbeer.com/the-evolution-of-swamis-ipa/

07/29/2025

"But if beer were a painting, I’d argue that malt is the canvas. It’s foundational. Malt doesn’t always get the same sensory spotlight, but its impact on aroma, flavor, color, and texture is equally important. Understanding malt sensory is not just a quality control step. It’s a vital tool for both brewers and maltsters."

In the brewing world, people often compare the four main ingredients—water, hops, yeast, and malt to components of life: the human body, musical instruments, or even furniture. No matter which analogy you prefer, hops typically get the most sensory attention. Brewers are well-versed in describing ...

07/28/2025

We're a big fan of cocktails and beer foam. Imagine our delight at this creation by in Philadelphia.  

The MLÍKO AMERICANO is a combination of fernet, sweet vermouth, orange, rhubarb bitters, and foam from the brewery's Dripstone Czech-style lager

"It's our riff on the classic Milano-Torino," says Angelica Preso, the brewery's general manager. "It's what happens when the Spaghett goes to Prague on holiday. Texturally, it's everything we love about the Garibaldi but with wet, LUKR foam at the forefront. It's dry, bittersweet, fluffy, and refreshing."

Sounds like we're headed to Philly for cocktails. Who wants to join?

07/28/2025

Suggestions for the best beer to enjoy in a backyard inflatable pool?

07/21/2025

While Dogfish Head's Cherry Pale Ale 30th birthday box will only be available for purchase online, drinkers in Delaware can pick up a 6pk/12oz cans of Cherry Pale Ale, ‘carpet coasters’ and all, at Dogfish Head’s Milton brewery. Priced at $16 per 6pk/12oz cans. Limited to one 6pk per person.

A liquid time capsule transporting drinkers back to the mid-90s, this limited-edition beer is brewed with Delaware wheat, Maine barley, Cascade hops and boatloads of beautiful cherries for an easy-drinking, summertime sipper with balanced sweet and tart notes of stone fruit. Want to try the beer tha...

07/21/2025

The provisional brewery list for the 16th and Last Call edition of the Denver Rare Beer Tasting has been released and includes more than 50 of America’s most respected craft beer producers.

There are just a few tickets left. Get yours today.

Top Craft Brewers Take Part to Support Pints for Prostates

07/17/2025

Handshake bitters are quietly and quickly gaining fans in the brewing space.

Inspired by Underberg and the social nature of after-beer drinks, Shahin Khojastehzad, the former partner in Portland, Maine’s Novare Res Bier Café, launched his own bitters company, Handshake. Drawing inspiration from his background as an Iranian living in Maine, his bitters are inspiring brewer...

07/17/2025

This week on Drink Beer, Think Beer, we say goodbye to one of the great beer success stories of the early 2010s. It captured headlines and fans thanks to it’s musical bent and welcoming approach. It closed both its original Denver, CO location, and newer Asheville, NC location last week.

Founder Nick Nunns joins the show to share the history, reasoning, and his forward vision.

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07/17/2025

How did we get to our current beer renaissance? Have you heard the theory that butterfly flapping its wings on one side of the planet can create the wind that will become a hurricane on the other? In the case of modern beer in America, Jack McAuliffe was the butterfly.

McAuliffe, the co-founder of New Albion Brewing, does this week at age 80. Read about his impact and legacy via the link.

https://allaboutbeer.com/jack-mcauliffe/

07/15/2025

How did we get to our current beer renaissance? Have you heard the theory that butterfly flapping its wings on one side of the planet can create the wind that will become a hurricane on the other? In the case of modern beer in America, Jack McAuliffe was the butterfly.

Remembering craft beer pioneer Jack McAuliffe of New Albion Brewing.

07/15/2025

Let's raise a pint to Jack McAuliffe, a true American beer pioneer, who died today at age 80.

Remembering craft beer pioneer Jack McAuliffe of New Albion Brewing.

07/04/2025

The Colonial Era, more than two centuries behind us now, saw revolution plotted in taverns by players who risked charges of sedition for the cause of independence. Controversial in their time, the revolution’s heroes quickly became respectable…and marketable.
(From the All About Beer archives)

Brewer. Patriot. That two-word tag line says it all, creating a link between love of beer and love of country. The words appeared on the original label for Samuel Adams Boston Lager, above the image of a young, soft-faced Sam Adams, who stares at the viewer, a foaming tankard in front of him. Over t...