A luxury item is something that adds pleasure or comfort to one’s life but is not absolutely necessary to thrive or survive. Though many satisfied drinkers might joke to the contrary, all beer is rendered luxury by this definition. We don’t need it, but it certainly enriches our lives when used in moderation. Be it [...]
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I’m happy to see that the gluten-free beer niche continues to grow. A recent trip to Minnesota revealed a friend who had long given up beer due to Celiac Disease, an autoimmune disorder whereby ingestion of certain proteins causes a painful and dangerous reaction in the body, which cannot absorb them properly. While perusing beers [...]
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Though it’s nearly 25,000 miles around, the world can feel like an awfully small place sometimes. For the beer drinker, global walls continue their constrictive shifts as breweries band together in a dizzying array of mergers and acquisitions. Despite extraordinary growth on the part of American craft brewers, global breweries continue to lose market share [...]
I once served a five-year-old bottle of craft beer to a college buddy, just for laughs. As he popped the top, I waited in anticipation for his first sip, which he promptly spit all over my coffee table. I deserved it. Without the benefit of freshness dating, he was helpless against the twin evils of [...]
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