Some of you will cringe when I say this, but hype usually makes things seem better, at least for a little while. Being pumped up about an experience or a product can place a set of rose-colored glasses firmly on your face, which blind yo...

What’s in a name?  Well quite a bit if you’re a business that has spent many years and countless dollars trying to get people to remember it. For instance, if I say Microsoft, you think about how much your computer sucks.  If...

Map courtesy of the Beer Institute: http://www.beerinstitute.org/br USA Today recently published their list of the “10 “best” craft brew states in America,” and it seems that no complex calculations were involved ...

Those of you who have been reading B&WB for a while know that I’m a creature of habit, both in my daily routines, and in what I eat and drink. While I’m constantly exploring the wonderful nooks and crannies of the craft beer ...

“Does this can make me look fat?” How a brewer chooses to seek innovation tells you a lot about what motives them. If you had any question as to where Budweiser’s priorities lie, look no further than their new bowtie-sh...

These things happen so fast. Just a few years ago, the Heineken bottle was a happy and innocent little green vessel, one that liked to hang around the house with the grownups and maybe have a play date with its buddy Chip (and sometimes ...

By now, you may have seen the video of a Mariners fan catching a foul ball in his beer and then chugging down it like a gladiator at the Colosseum. If not, I’ve posted the clip below. The beer-baller gets style points for sure. Not...

Sometimes I forget that there was life in the craft beer universe before the late 1990′s, when breweries like Stone, Dogfish Head and Russian River crawled out of the primordial wort.  But there was, and after coming across a nice ...

UPDATE (4/15/13): The story is now posted over at Today.com.  Thanks to everyone who submitted their answers.  It was great to get such a big response, but due to word count limitations, I wasn’t able to fit everyone into the piece...

Original image courtesy of http://www.opacity.us purveyors of cool pictures of abandoned places. I was thinking (naturally) about beer yesterday afternoon, and came up with a question for myself – What’s the one brewery I can...