Oktoberfest celebrations are happening in South Florida through October 21, and since beer is a fundamental part of the two week celebration, it may help you to know a thing or two about it. At the ...

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 ...

There’s no disputing the appeal of Sierra Nevada’s iconic Pale Ale. When it was introduced in 1980, its liberal use of Cascade hops not only changed the game when it came to pale ales but IPAs as well ...

Even though the IPA gets all the press, it’s the American pale ale that we can thank (at least in part) for the epic rise in hoppy craft brews in the US over the past forty years. Way back in 1980, ...

Welcome back to FTW’s Beverage of the Week series. Here, we mostly chronicle and review beers, but happily expand that scope to any beverage (or food) that pairs well with sports. Yes, even cookie ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you think about the world’s great beer cultures, several come to mind. Germany and the Czech Republic excel at lagers. Belgium is famous for Trappist-style ale, witbier and divinely complex ...

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 ...