It’s tempting to call any beer that isn’t brewed by a major label a “microbrew,” and in many cases you’d be correct in doing so. But you wouldn’t be hep to the vagaries of nomenclature that will grant entry into the company of beer snobs and impress your less enamored friends. (At least until you […]

How was last night’s Beer School Homework? If for some awful reason you had a hard time working up a thirst, let this recipe for ‘Bacon Snack Bars’ juice up your glands and cast a long shadow over your heart.
This recipe is the sort of marketing-driven culinary travesty that attempts to cram as many packaged […]

My Mac has, in its wisdom, decided to not play audio with Flash files, so I can’t tell you what exactly is supposed to be going on in the “Brewtron” commercials from Icehouse that are currently running on Maxim.com. Because Brewtron is the sort of viral marketing to which the average internet dude is largely […]

At the Snakes on a Plane premiere held at the Alamo Draft House in Austin, Texas, known film referencer Quentin Tarantino is seen sipping a “Samuel Jackson Badass Ale.” Our sources tell us that the beer was only a Budweiser clad in a special sticker; Fortunate, as any flavor we associate with Sam Jackson tastes […]

Because Beer School is an interactive curriculum, your first homework is going to be going out and buying some beer to drink. To give you a little push, we’re listing a few readily available beers to start you on your way.
One meta-suggestion: Try picking up your booze at a liquor store instead of a grocery […]

Beer is made from four things: Water, malted barley, hops and yeast. While a few beers are produced with other ingredients—fruits, other grains like wheat (yay!) and rice (onoes!), spices—chances are good that any beer selected from the shelf at random will contain just those four ingredients. 16th-century Bavarians went so far as to make […]

Know these things about beer:
• It is the most delicious food in this reality.
• It was likely the first food cultivated and preserved by man.
• Man can live on beer alone, or will at least be happy in the attempt.
Beer inspires in us a humility that transforms the most vulgar mention to sacred, sanguine event; […]