The craft beer industry is built on creativity, with brewers consistently innovating via both centuries-old traditions and brand new ingredients and technologies. When Chicago's Goose Island Brewery ...

When Town Hall Brewery won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival for Czar Jack — its Jack Frost imperial stout aged in a used Jack Daniels barrel — there wasn't even a category for ...

Taste away (while being mindful of social distancing) at this year’s FOBAB. Credit: Yutacar/Unsplash It’s exhilarating just to anticipate the annual Festival of Wood and Barrel-Aged Beer (FOBAB). I ...

Beer is best fresh. If you drink an IPA the day it is bottled or canned, it will be at its peak. Never again will it taste so good. Day by day, by degrees, its lushness will fade. Beer, unlike vinegar ...

Buckets of beer are nothing new. In the 1800s, that’s how draft beer was sloshily delivered to industrial workers on their lunch breaks. Meanwhile, iced-down buckets full of bottles and cans have been ...

This Black Friday, beer lovers will once again line up in frigid temperatures for the annual release of Goose Island’s Bourbon County Stout. Over the past 15 years, the hype and excitement around ...

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

David Flaherty is the marketing director for the Washington State Wine Commission. This article does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors or management of Nation's Restaurant News. The ...

Building on the success of his Big Stump Brew Company in Sacramento, Alex Larrabee recently opened Napa Barrel Project, bringing casual pub fun and the flavors of sour beer to Napa. “Our Napa Barrel ...