Let’s say you make a craft brew in your garage. You name it something like, She’s Not Stout She’s My Sister. You serve it for free to friends who come over for barbecue, and they keep telling you it ...

Years ago, I helped write and edit a book called Beer for Dummies. I learned a lot about beer. Since that book was published, in 1996, craft brewing in America has grown exponentially. We have more ...

The practice of brewing beer stretches back millennia. But what we call craft beer today began when Fritz Maytag bought San Francisco’s Anchor Brewery in 1965. The decades since have brought such ...

I like beer as much as the next guy. All right. I guess I really don’t. Because these days it seems like the “next guy” who professes to enjoy a brewski now and again must know the difference between ...