I had a new summer crush this past year, and I’m hoping to extend the relationship into the colder months. As I wrote in my previous article, Beer Cocktails, mixing things up is a fun way to experiment with flavors and find new ways to love beer. Beer cocktails swept me off my feet and […]
Fresh for Fall
Fall is one of my favorite times of year – when the hot summer days give way to the chill of the approaching winter season, and the crisp light beers of summer are overtaken by the richer flavors of colder days. Creatures begin to slow their paces as temperatures drop, and we all take comfort […]
Common Beer Mispronunciations
There I was, seated at a small bar near the Willamette River in the Northwest District of Portland, Oregon. I was newly 23, and an infant in the beer world. I perused the beer menu looking for something akin to Blue Moon when I settled on Widmer Hefeweizen. As I ordered, a garbled, madly mispronounced […]