The issue of selling beer on eBay, collectible or otherwise, tends to bring out strong (often, impressively strong) opinions in the craft beer community. Brewers feel cheated, beer veterans express outrage, and yet somehow the rest of the world still manages to mostly go about its business quietly and unaffected. [...]
Essentially every time that the annual Ratebeer Best results are released, or conversations about the Ratebeer Top 50 arise, or some goofball tries to post a specialized Top 10 List without checking if it’s top heavy in a particular style, the general reactions tend to be similar: “That’s a whole lot of Imperial Stouts.” “Why are [...]
Sour Monday at Triple Rock Brewery and Jupiter in Berkeley was one of the most anticipated events of SF Beer Week, featuring 60 bottled and draft selections from brewers fond of the funk. Brett, Pedio, Aceto, and Lacto were all in attendance, as well as numerous craft beer industry heavyweights including Joe Tucker, Tomme Arthur, [...]
Can’t decide between the 180+ (and growing) San Francisco Beer Week events? Wish you knew more about different beer lists and special taps? Does the full SFBW schedule seem like both pornography and homework? Well, you’ve come to the right place. [...]
Think of it as a personalized shopping list, or maybe a Ken-centric curiosity towards the previous year of new releases. Here are the Top 10 New Beers of 2009, as reviewed by my thirsty, fortunate brethren on Ratebeer. [...]
There’s already a list of the top seasonal beers on Ratebeer, which is great for people curious about what they should seek out at particular times of year, but it’s not really the sort of list that I think about when the holidays roll around. [...]
Inside: Everything you wanted to know about Michael Jackson’s Rare Beer Club, A timely history of mail-order beer societies, PLUS The Breaking News about Lost Abbey’s 2010 Patron Sinners and Saints
My wife and I recently moved to Sebastopol, California, a city we’d decided upon as an ideal spot for ourselves during our three-month road trip a year previous: crunchy, quiet, heavily walkable, good beer. All of the places we’d lived before had been determined by school, from sunless Pittsburgh to lake-effect snowfall in upstate New [...]
