How very typical. You find a special beer, and the people who make it refuse to share. The news that two prestigious online guides declared your ale the world's best beer would be cause for celebration at most microbreweries.

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Ask Indians about the British, and they'll tell you the colonizers built a cracking railway, created an impregnable bureaucracy and educated a class of English-speaking toffs to man it.

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A brewery that uses Saccharomyces cerevisiae (aka brewer's yeast). to make beer.

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Review: The Mr Beer Homebrewing System

Christmas brought me a surprise under the tree, a Mr Beer Brewing system from my Mother-in Law that thinks its interesting that I'm making my own beer. These are my observations for the system:

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The closure of Mortlake means the disappearance of the last big brewery left in London.

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Latest Brew: Scottish 60 Shilling aka 60/-

I'm not a big fan of what most people call American beers, Lagers and Pilsners made light with very little body. Thin and watery, like the Monty Python joke, its like making love in a canoe... @!$%#ing close to water.

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My Kitchen the Brewery

I like to word hiatus, it's a nice highfalutin word meaning took a break, goofed off, or did something else and I've spent the last six months largely doing something else.

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A BEER has been created that can prolong life and help avoid illness — but it tastes lousy. The genetically-modified ale was produced by student researchers who have named it BioBeer.

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A tiny colony of yeast trapped inside a Lebanese weevil covered in ancient Burmese amber for up to 45 million years, has been brought back to life in barrels of beer.

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Vaune Dillmann grew up in South Milwaukee but long ago went off in search of weed. Make that Weed, as in the city in northern California. In 2004, Dillmann opened the Mt. Shasta Brewing Co. and started producing Weed ales and lagers from mountain spring water.

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The price of a pint of beer in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK could rise by as much as 20% next year, industry insiders have said. Spiralling manufacturing costs are being blamed for the anticipated hike.

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For beer enthusiasts, staying warm during the holidays means taking a break from cooking and shopping to bask in the comfort of a winter ale.

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BEER aficionados who move to Asia discover quickly that they need to scale back their expectations.

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This was beer the really old-fashioned way. Today most draft beers are injected with carbon dioxide, filtered and often pasteurized, stored in pressurized kegs and served through gas-powered taps.

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I have a new obsession: cask-conditioned beer. If you love beer but are not familiar with the term please try to catch my column in Wednesday's paper, which explains its growing popularity in the United States.

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Breaking down the strong beer trend in Halifax with radical brewer Greg Nash. It wasn't all that long ago—25 years in fact—that there was no such thing as microbrewed beer on the radar of Haligonians. Kevin Keefe at Ginger's (The Granite Brewery) cured that in 1984.

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A quick, simple, and very flexible recipe for beer bread.

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Flying Dog Brewery to Launch Open Source Beer

Denver's Flying Dog Brewery today announced plans to release what is believed to be the first "open source" beer to hit the market in the U.S.

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A century and a half ago, their dark-brown contents would have tasted something like a barley wine.

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It seems like there is always that guy in the bar that has a crazy story about the beer he's drinking. The worst part, sometimes its believable, so you tell someone, then they tell someone, and thats a beer myth.

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What tastes best with a pilsner or a stout? How to match beer with your meals. For most serious foodies, matching wine with food is almost second nature. Beer? It's barely given a second thought.

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This past weekend saw the 17th Annual Beer Tasting with Michael Jackson at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The event featured a guided tasting with beer expert Michael Jackson, a.k.a.

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Once upon a time, jokes about American beer made by Europeans and Canadians were both plentiful and cutting.

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Brewing holiday beers is a strong tradition that goes back a long way - special occasions, then as now, would have called for special quaffs.

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