Cooperstown, New York immediately brings many iconic images to mind: Babe Ruth calling his shot, Willie Mays' unforgettable over the shoulder catch, and Lou Gehrig's moving retirement speech.  As [...]

Stone Brewing Company recently celebrated its 15th anniversary with a special release of Escondidian Imperial Black IPA.  We were quick to snap up several bottles of this fine ale.  [...]

As you may recall from More Fun Than a Barrel of Monkeys, angel's share is the portion of booze lost to evaporation during barrel aging; a fitting name for alcohol [...]

The Sculpin fish is a spiny prehistoric looking fish.  At any moment you would expect it to sprout some decrepit legs and crawl out of the water.  Spikes on the [...]

With a name like Dead Guy Ale, one might expect this Rogue Ale creation to have a killer ABV or be a massive hop bomb.  In reality this beer, weighing [...]

Mythological beasts are not a unique cultural phenomenon.  Here in North America we hear stories of Bigfoot and the Chupacabra.  Scotland has the Loch Ness Monster and the world continues to [...]

New Belgium Brewing Company is best known for its Fat Tire Amber Ale, and while it is an excellent beer, one would be doing him or herself a great [...]

This week kicks off a series of Tuesday Tastings in which we review Zymurgy Magazine's Top 50 Beers of 2011.  We begin with a beer made by a brewery that [...]

Craft breweries are known to push the limit when creating their beer.  They are also known to push the envelope when naming their beers.  Deciding on the name of a new beer is [...]

Scotland has given us many things over the years: William Wallace, golf, the Loch Ness Monster, and a number of Mike Myers characters.  It has also given us the Champaign [...]