Joe Sixpack

Joe Sixpack drinks beer and writes about it for a living in America's Best Beer-Drinking City. Yes, it is a dream come true and, no, he is not currently in need of an assistant. He's won a bunch of journalism awards and was named America's top beer columnist in 2002 and 2006. He is the author of the upcoming Joe Sixpack's Beer Reporter Notebook (Camino Books) and he hosts a Web site at www.JoeSixpack.net.

Email Joe at joesixpack@phillynews.com

Video: Beer canning at Manayunk Brewing Company

What's brewing for Philly Beer Week
It's bock to bock for spring beer drinking
The science behind beer nuts

What's brewing for Philly Beer Week 05/01/2013: With Philly Beer Week just five weeks away, word is beginning to spill about many of the new brands the locals will show off.
The science behind beer nuts 04/24/2013: A Philadelphia Science Festival event at Yards Brewery will explore the chemistry in beer-and-food pairings.
Beer and food: Friends with benefits 04/17/2013: Ommegang competition winner George Sabatino talks about why food cooks better (and cooks cook better) with beer.
It's bock to bock for spring beer drinking 04/11/2013: Classic, warming bock beer is giving way to newer, spicy, flowery varieties of spring beer.
A pox on beer taxes? Not so fast 04/03/2013: Taxing liquor helped repeal Prohibition on April 7, 1933 — and that’s worth celebrating, says Joe Sixpack.
Stop wining and try some beer 03/27/2013: Joe Sixpack explains that "beer taste" can be just about anything.
Cold case: Beer in cans is cool again 03/20/2013: Joe Sixpack

Once spurned as an unworthy container for good beer, cans are gaining new respect.
Guidelines? These are the real beer styles 03/13/2013: News item: The Brewers Association has updated its Beer Style Guidelines, with definitions of 142 separate styles. The newest additions are Adambier and Grätzer.
Bud suit just muddied the water 03/07/2013: By now, it's obvious that the highly publicized lawsuit over Budweiser's alcohol content is pure B.S.
Breakout brewer in ... Lebanon? 02/27/2013: BEER FROM LEBANON? Baloney! Sorry, this Pennsylvania boy couldn't let that pun slip by, even if - as it happens - we're talking about beer made not in Lancaster County, but in the Middle East.