Some secrets are better off shouted in an open, public forum, rather than confessed to friends in the discomfiting confinement of intimacy. This is one of them: When I'm at home, I drink non-alcoholic beer.
I am not an alcoholic; Not dieting either. And I also happen to love regular brews with their average 5% or so alcohol content and have happily drunk...
Italy isn’t just a wine country anymore. The craft brewery scene has developed slowly but surely over the past decade, and now a growing number of great brews are becoming available outside Italy and even in the U.S. Eataly New York, and its soon-to-open outposts in D.C. and L.A., gives Americans the opportunity to try some of Italy’s newest exports. Among...
Once considered a sleepy nabe of Los Angeles, Culver City has become a dining destination of its own in the past few years as innovative chefs have begun setting up shop. Sang Yoon located his Father's Office 2 and his newest...
Bier braucht Heimat. The man who dreams of opening the first “real” micro-brewery in Paris takes his inspiration from this ancient piece of German beer wisdom. Roughly translated as “a beer needs a home,” the saying sums up the panoply of regional beer styles in Germany but rings empty in today’s Parisian beer landscape, dominated by foreign hordes from...
As a kid, I had a couple constant daydreams. First, I ached to be invisible. I didn’t fancy being a peeping tom; I wanted to observe human life in microscopic detail — without being called creepy. In certain respects, I’ve achieved invisibility in New York City. Here, you can strut for miles without anyone glancing your direction.
Secondly, I wanted to time...
Stone's Imperial Russian Stout is a great beer, heavy as lead, and released — as a dare, apparently — in the heat of summer. Buy it now, and stash it in the fridge for a few months. It's a fireside sipper, not meant for warm-weather dining. Belgo Anise Imperial Russian Stout is a different story. Fire up the grill, and pour this one for dessert.
Stone's...
Too often when I drink beer I make a crucial, always regrettable mistake: I forget to eat. I’ll stuff my stomach with salty, bar-top pretzels chips, then happily slurp a second or, more accurately, a fifth pint. Soon the hours grow big, then small again, and I’m left grasping for another greasy slice of pizza.
This diet would be fine, even expected, if I...
Summer has arrived as suddenly as a face slap, bringing with it sun, humidity, and this maddening question from bartenders: “Would you like a lemon with your wheat beer?”
As always, the answer is no. Whether you’re drinking a spiced Belgian-style witbier such as Hoegaarden or Allagash White, or a cloudy, unfiltered hefeweizen hailing from Widmer Brothers or...
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