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Oktoberfest
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 […]
Pilsner Appeal
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 […]
Seattle
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 […]
Spending 24 Hours in Very Good Company
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 […]
St Patrick’s Day Black
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. […]
The Cigar & Beer Experience
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 […]
Celebrity Interviews
