Spending ten days traveling around Germany with some of the world’s most intelligent and upcoming female beer industry workers was a delight I never saw coming. Thanks to the Pink Boots Society and its supporters, I was able to sample some of Germany’s finest food and beer while learning about its beer culture, history, […]
Eine Rauchbier, Bitte!
As a student of beer, I feel it is my duty to give my attention to all beer styles, even those I may not be particularly fond of. While I place pumpkin beer firmly at the helm of this list, there have been a handful of others that have not been easy to wrap my […]
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 […]