To Punch Top or to Shotgun: A Short History of Opening a Beer Can

Every beer can asks the same question before it gives up its contents: how are you getting in? For most of us the answer is automatic […]

Super Size Me for Beer: A Bar-Stool Tour of Beer Portions, From Tasters to Yards of Ale

Everybody remembers the fast-food documentary that asked what happens when you supersize everything. Beer has been asking the same question for a lot longer. Walk into […]

Breakfast Beer: It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere

Somebody at a brunch table will eventually say it, usually while eyeing the clock and grinning: it is five o’clock somewhere. The line is a joke, […]

Beer Pretzels with Beer-Cheese Dip: A Tavern Classic

There are bar snacks, and then there is the moment a basket of warm soft pretzels lands on the table next to a cold pint and […]

Beer: It’s What’s for Dinner — Three Dishes That Cook With the Pint

Most people think of beer as the drink that goes with dinner. Fewer think of it as an ingredient in dinner, which is a shame, because […]

Endless Pairings: A European Beer Dinner, Course by Course

Wine has owned the pairing dinner for so long that most people assume beer is just the thing you drink while you wait for the real […]

The Oktoberfest Survival Guide

There are beer festivals, and then there is Oktoberfest. Six million people, sixteen days, a fairground in the middle of Munich, and beer served by the […]

Move Over, Wings — Beer Found a New Friend

Every bar worth its salt has a default pairing. You walk in, you order a beer, and something salty shows up beside it. For most of […]

Ancho Chile Onion Ring Quesadilla: The Bar-Food Mashup That Makes Sense

There are bar-food mashups that sound like a dare, and then there are the ones that sound like a dare and turn out to be obviously […]

Polenta Crab Fries: Game-Day Gold From a Humble Pantry Staple

Some bar snacks announce themselves. Wings arrive with a smell that takes over the room, nachos come out on a tray the size of a hubcap, […]

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