After this summer’s Relentless Thirst rare and vintage beer tasting, a funny thing happened. The endless web of social networking had, unbeknownst to me, worked in my favor. When a friend posted a picture on his Facebook profile of a bottle of 2004...

Back in March, I created a brief blurb about the explosive growth of locally brewed beer in Asheville, North Carolina, and the support it’s received from a relatively small but adamant populace. With potentially four more brewing operations opening...

Things haven’t been all quiet on the homebrewing front, I’ve just been neglecting to sit down and actually pen something about my recent adventures. But I’d like to use this space to provide you with an update regarding recent goings-on in my brewing...

So I didn’t talk to the actual Georg Schneider or his son, but a while back I did get to sit down with the brewery’s Director of Export Sales and Biersommelière Susanne Hecht. One of the few female certified beer sommelieres in the world, Hecht has...

Yesterday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal featured a front-page article explaining the Federal Trade Commission’s crack-down on private companies donating “gifts” to bloggers. The quotations are employed for effect, because one man’s “gift” is...