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Joe Sixpack: The thirst grows for one-shot styles - 06/19/2009

AS IF AMERICA'S 1,500 breweries don't already produce an unimaginable variety of ales and lagers, now some are expanding their portfolios with series of one-offs that are testing the limits of our palates . . . and pocketbooks.

 

Joe Sixpack: cream ale's an American original - 06/12/2009

A HARSHER CRITIC would sip a cream ale and sniff that the brewer had dumbed down a perfectly good pale ale by adding sugar and corn to the kettle.

 

Joe Sixpack: Here's to summer beer, whose time has come - 06/05/2009

ASSUMING the world's scientists have this whole global warming thing right, I figure we've got two years, three at the most, till we're all wearing SPF 100 and it's crocodiles, not moose, that Sarah Palin is hunting up there in Alaska.

 

Joe Sixpack: Splashing beer on the barbie's a no-brainer - 05/29/2009

BEFORE YOU light the fire, crack open a bottle. Whether it's barbecuing or grilling, the first step is a great beer. Grab a cold one, take one long pull . . . and then pour the rest of it into your recipe.

 

Joe Sixpack: Tough test measures your knowledge of beer - 05/22/2009

SO, YOU THINK you know a lot about beer? Here's a quiz: A) What is the name of the device attached to a keg to allow for the input of gas and the output of beer?

 

Joe Sixpack: The classic Schmidt's sign is back on view at the redeveloped brewery site in Northern Liberties - 05/15/2009

SCHMIDT'S is back. Not the grand old Northern Liberties brewery, which shut down in 1987. And not the beer, which these days exists only as some generic fizzy yellow liquid that's brewed God-knows-where.

 

Joe Sixpack: - 05/15/2009

Sharp-eyed beer fans and history buffs can spot the letters, which date to about 1949, on a brick wall inside a 2nd Street

 

Joe Sixpack: Author writes tell-all about beer - 05/08/2009

AFTER 6,000 YEARS of drinking beer, you'd suppose mankind knows how to actually taste the stuff: Pop open the can, raise toward face, open mouth, pour contents down throat - it's a straightforward challenge best undertaken, according to the beer commercials, with the able assistance of two or three girls in bikinis.

 

Joe Sixpack: Thirst no more: The search for a traditional bock is over - 05/01/2009

SOMEONE IN America must be brewing a traditional bock. Not one of those super-strong doppelbocks that craft brewers seem to favor. Not a maibock, the pale version that appears in May as a transition to the lighter lagers of summer. Not an ice bock, not a wheat bock, not a Christmas bock.

 

Joe Sixpack: Foamland Security's taxing war on tap terror - 04/24/2009

IN A POST-9/11 world, is your beer safe from terrorists? It is at the new Creekside Brewery in San Luis Obispo, Calif., thanks to $15,000 in security measures that the owners say federal authorities ordered before the brewpub could open. In addition to surveillance equipment and alarms, the restaurant encased its brewing equipment inside a tempered-glass box and metal bars.