If you're new to the world of craft beer, browsing a brewery's menu can be a bit overwhelming. Between all the stouts, porters, and pilsners, it can be hard to know exactly what you want to order, but ...

When the World Beer Cup awards were announced last month, one winner stood out for an unusual reason. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. won a gold medal for its flagship beer, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, which ...

It’s a sad reality of the beer market that critical acclaim and competition medals often mean little for mass marketability and sales figures. Consumers, by and large, aren’t looking up which ...

Brief history: The Belgian Pale Ale style has roots dating as far back as the mid-1700s. The style has changed quite a bit over the years, with the biggest change occurring during World War II when ...

When it comes to the hierarchy of beer styles that American brewers have put their own spin on, it’s pretty tough to beat the appeal of the American pale ale. It all started in 1980, when Ken Grossman ...

In craft beer’s Jurassic age, when Buds ruled the earth, a few Paleolithic beer hunters sought something bitter and better. They discovered the Pale Ale, the beer style that – with its enthusiastic ...

While the English-style pale ale has been brewed in some capacity since the 1700s, the American pale ale (while wildly popular) is a fairly contemporary creation. Still an outstanding beer today, we ...

Just 20 years ago, if you had reached into your fridge for any beer produced by a small, independent brewery, there’s a roughly 99.99% chance that brew would have been coming out of a glass bottle. In ...

There is one election day ritual that I’ve missed out on twice now thanks to my decision to be a member of the press instead of the sit at home and watch our country’s fate on CNN crowd: the ...