Beer
First brewed at least 5,000 years ago, beer is one of the oldest and most universally consumed alcoholic drinks. It is usually made from cereals, most frequently malted barley, but other ingredients can be used, such as wheat, corn, or rice. In the majority of cases, hops are added to the process (originally as a preservative), although in centuries past other flavorings were used. Today, a whole host of flavored beers exist, ranging from conventional ingredients such as fruit to crazier additions including bacon, donuts, and rocky mountain oysters (aka bull testicles). The most popular beer style, however, is the easy-drinking pale lager style. It used to be thought that beer in cans was inferior quality to beer in bottles, and that there was a safety worry over the use of aluminum, but that is no longer the case. Cans are perfectly safe and sales of canned beers are growing while bottles are on the decline.
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Best Day Brewing hails from, of all places, Sausalito, California, a tiny residential and tourist community north of the Golden Gate Bridge that’s best known for expensive sushi and even pricier cocktails. Since its founding in 2020, the company has become one of the most widely distributed non-alcoholic beer brands, with availability of its six…
Nashville-based TailGate Brewery operates a whopping nine taprooms across Tennessee, but its core beer lineup includes only three offerings (plus a cider). Naturally you’ll find a steady stream of limited editions hitting the market, but if you’re new to the brand, as we are, this is the trio you’re going to encounter. Thoughts follow. TailGate…
Today we take a break from reviewing Firestone Walker‘s massive, barrel-aged beers and sit with some more accessible, everyday drinkers. Here’s a look at a pair of new Firestone brews. Firestone Walker Sunglider Golden Lager – On the surface this seasonal brew looks like any other lager. The twist? It’s made with California-grown floor malted…
THC seltzers are rampant. THC beers are far less common, perhaps because enthusiasts just don’t like to muddy the waters with cannabinoids, even if alcohol isn’t involved. Float House, based in Windsor, Connecticut, produces a small but growing collection of “can-na-brews” designed to offer a craft beer drinking experience (though the product is not formally…
Bend, Oregon’s 10 Barrel Brewing recently sent out a head-to-head mailer that let folks compare its new Pub Light (99 calories!) with a mainstream light beer (it was Coors Light) to see what you could do in the low-cal space. Tasting the two beers blind, I found them very different experiences, with the Coors…
Denver’s Ratio Beerworks has been putting out brews for 11 years now. We’ve never sampled its wares until now, so we kick off our coverage with three of its offerings, all available in 12 oz. cans and in expanded national distribution. If you’re an artist in Denver, you’re in luck: Ratio donates 3% of its…
Widely considered one of the best non-alcoholic beers on the market, Guinness 0 has a cult following with good reason: It’s made through the same methods and with the same ingredients as standard Guinness, only it culminates with the alcohol being removed through a “cold filtration method,” which I don’t pretend to understand at all.…
Heineken 0.0 is one of the most widely available N/A beers on the market, and I suspect it’s popular for one major reason: It tastes just like regular Heineken, which can admittedly be a little funky-skunky, with aggressive maltiness and some cardboard overtones. Now Heineken extends the line with the goal of having a bit…
Iconic Rhineland-Palatinate-based brewer Bitburger is the latest operation to join the non-alcoholic beer movement, with this expression joining Bitburger Premium Pils as only the second beer from Bitburger available in the U.S. Very malty on the nose, this beer features a toasty, cereal-driven palate that evokes flavors of cracked wheat, white pepper, and grains of paradise.…
The annual release of Brooklyn Brewery’s Black Ops arrived at the tail end of 2025, and while it once again leans on Four Roses barrels for aging its Russian Imperial stout, this time the aging regimen is only three months instead of the nine months it has previously sat in barrels. Interestingly, Four Roses Small Batch…