Beer of the week: Flying Dog Dogtoberfest

Among Oktoberfest-style beers, Flying Dog Dogtoberfest is a hoppy standout.

Just as I couldn’t bear to let the month of October slip past without bringing a pumpkin ale to your attention, I must also highlight an Oktoberfest/Märzen style beer before the clock strikes midnight

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Beer of the week: Anchor Old Foghorn

Anchor Brewing Company's Old Foghorn helped define "American barley wine" as a distinct style.

By Danner Kline

Anchor Brewing Co. is the godfather of the American craft brewing movement. When Fritz Maytag saved the brewery by purchasing a majority stake in 1965, Anchor Steam was America’s only surviving indige

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Beer of the week: Post Road Pumpkin Ale

What could be more fitting than carving your jack-o-lantern while sipping on a brew made from the guts of the gourd you're slicing up?

By Danner Kline

I should note up front that I am not much of a fan of pumpkin beers... any of them. But that's akin to someone telling you he doenn't like shrimp: some people may not like shrimp, but it's actually a

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Great Divide Yeti

By Danner Kline

Usually, when a brewer decides to brew a beer, one of the most fundamental decisions he makes is whether to focus on malt or hops. A few examples of malt-focused beers are brown ales, porters, bocks,

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Beer of the week: Terrapin Gamma Ray

With a massive 10.8% ABV, this delicious wheat wine is a slow sipper and will cellar well.

By Danner Kline

Terrapin Gamma Ray combines two of my favorite things: Southern beer and seasonal beer. The guys at Terrapin traveled a long road to open their brewery in Athens, Ga. For most of the years I’ve bee

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Brew review: American Beer

As a beer drinker living in the United States of America, you are lucky enough to live in the best country in the world for variety and creativity in brewing.

By Danner Kline

I would like to interrupt our regularly scheduled “Brew of the Week” programming to take a big-picture look at beer in the U.S. America was once the butt of beer jokes. A favorite among Europeans: “Wh

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Beer of the week: St. Bernardus Abt 12

By Danner Kline

If you were to surf over to Beer Advocate’s "Top Beers on Planet Earth" list, at the very top of the list (ranked as the number one beer in the world) you’d find Trappist Westvleteren 12, a Belgian qu

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Beer of the week: Unibroue La Fin du Monde

By Danner Kline

I am overdue in highlighting a Unibroue beer in this column. Unibroue is located in Québec, Canada, and was among the earliest North American breweries to produce Belgian-style beers. Indeed, Unibroue

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Beer of the week: Samuel Adams Double Bock

By Danner Kline

Everyone knows Samuel Adams Boston Lager. You’ve seen the commercials with Jim Koch examining the hops he puts in the beer. You’ve heard the slogan and indeed, Boston Lager is a world class brew. Than

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Brew of the week: Orval Trappist Ale

By Danner Kline

One of the tragic consequences of Alabama’s draconian restrictions on the brewing and selling of beer is that countless beers legal even under the old 6% ABV limit were not distributed here. Breweries