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I'm far enough out of the foodie loop that I'm not sure this is even a big deal--though my normally quiet editor sent me an email with the news, decorated with a number of exclamation points. (It's from the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and they hand out awards for cookbooks and food writing each year.) Here's her photo: ...

This is slightly convoluted, but bear with me. James Fallows is a writer for The Atlantic--and one of America's best journalists, with a history that goes back to speech writing for Jimmy Carter. Over the past three years, Fallows and his wife Deborah worked on a project for The Atlantic called “ American Futures ” that took them ...

Today, Patrick and I are delighted to introduce what will probably be an unknown beer to the world--Mughal cistern beer (Mugal Talaab Sharaab), forgotten potable from the court of the Mughal rulers of India. It’s one of those oddities that might have stayed buried, if not for a revival that’s taking place again in India. It's a very ...

[Full disclosure. Diageo/Guinness paid for my trip to Dublin, including the flight and hotel. They bought me beers and food when I was out with brewery folks. Diageo Guinness are also a sponsor of this blog.] You learn a lot when you visit a country. One of the things you learn is what beer people actually drink. In Ireland, for example, ...

This is the 500th anniversary of the world's most famous brewing law. I did a big story for the anniversary in the print edition of All About Beer--and I see that it's online now. There's a lot about this law that is curious both historically and culturally. It is, of course, a Bavarian law, which is why folks to the north continued to blithely ...

When you walk into a pub, one of the beers might be "on nitro." It's usually a dark beer (though lately, not always). It has been used to most famous effect by Guinness, which celebrates the "surge" it produces when a pint is poured into a glass. Indeed it was invented at Guinness by a mathematician named Michael Ash back in 1959. Today, the fo ...

No. But it's a lot more impressive than I would have imagined. A little background. Guinness is, as you may have heard, a brewery in Dublin. The brewery tour is one of the (the?) most popular in Ireland, except that you don't get to see the brewery. Instead, you wander through the Guinness museum, learning a bit about how beer is made along ...

(Dublin, Tuesday 22 March 2016) No country has left a larger psychic imprint on the United States than Ireland. It's one of those few countries to which people clamor to establish a genetic link (and maybe not just white people), and therefore one to which nearly everyone does claim some connection, real or imagined. That cultural bridge makes ...

The Tax Foundation sent me the following graphic about beer taxes in the US. It is interesting largely because the difference between low tax states (around a dime a gallon or less) are way lower than the high tax states (in some cases over a buck a gallon). I wondered, how does this compare with t ...

Last night I was drinking a gose and noticed a flavor I've encountered in some beers soured by Lactobacillus: the faint flavor and aroma of vomit. Delish! It's never been overwhelming in any beer I've encountered, but does tinge the whole affair with unpleasantness. Horse blanket, a touch of compost, vinegar--all of these have their place. Vomi ...