By Scott Stavrou Magazine Issue: U.S. Vol. 2.3 NOTES ON INVADING GERMANYYou consider yourself pretty hip. You’ve forsaken the frothy peasant’s swill you once chugged from plastic cups at college keggers. You’ve moved on. You’re no philistine. Perhaps you’ve developed a fondness for microbrews or craft beers. Maybe you’re an aficionado of imports and well-versed […]
by Stephen Beaumont Magazine Issue: AUS/NZ Issue Four It’s the grand daddy of lager beers. The one they all descend from. The style that set the hops and malts rolling and ignited the world’s passion for pale, crisp, light beer. And it all began in a little place called Pilsen. Stephen Beaumont tells the Pilsner […]
by Steven Van Yoder Magazine Issue: U.S. Vol. 2.5 A FAR-OUT LAND OF BEER, BEAUTY AND THE BIZARRE Let’s get this out of the way: Seattle is a city fueled by beer. Lots of it. Everywhere. Wander anywhere and a brewpub, alehouse or drinking establishment will beckon you. It’s with this thought that I boarded […]
by Stephen Beaumont Magazine Issue: U.S. Vol. 3.6 North Americans tend to think they’ve pretty much invented everything. Take the beer festival. Okay, even if we didn’t actually invent it, at least we’ve perfected it. Like the Great American Beer Festival, held annually in Denver (this year from October 7th to the 9th), which attracts […]
by Stephen Beaumont Magazine Issue: U.S. Vol. 4.2 For 364 days of the year, most North Americans are satisfied with a pretty standard style of beer: Cold, crisp and fresh-tasting. Plus, according to the flavor profiles of the most popular brands, a little on the sweet side. And most of all, clear and golden. […]
By Steven Van Yoder Magazine Issue: U.S. Vol. 2.4 With celebrities, models and movers-and-shakers clutching fine stogies everywhere, the cigar experience is opening up a plethora of new possibilities. Across America, cigar smoking is being reshaped, redefined and reinvented. Old perceptions have been removed, “fat cat” stereotypes have been stamped out, and cigars […]
By Allison Kugel Wine X Online Edition Actor, director, and New York Times bestselling author, Andrew McCarthy is best known for coming-of-age movies like St. Elmo’s Fire, Pretty in Pink, and Less Than Zero that made an entire generation feel heard and seen and cementing his place within the pop culture zeitgeist as part of […]
Darin Szilagyi Wine X Online Edition Sleepers. Love ‘em. Sometimes it’s the brands that are right in front of you and perhaps on your “list,” but you haven’t found the reason to buy yet…… Guilty. Curiously guilty. OK, guilty with a smile because I knew I found a keeper when I finally went for […]
By Allison Kugel Wine X Onine Edition For more than a decade, Maksim Chmerkovskiy dazzled Dancing with the Stars fans with a superbly versatile talent for ballroom dance cultivated through his Ukrainian roots and with a family tradition that began with his mother, Larisa Chmerkovskaya. A love of dance was passed down to Maksim and […]
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