Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Craft beer replaces wine as young women's drink of choice

Meagan O'Brien sipped her beer and bit her tongue as the man next to her tried to describe to his date some of the 60 craft beers at a Milwaukee bar.

Turns out, he didn't know his ales from his hefeweizens.

"She kept asking questions, and this guy just kept making up stuff," O'Brien said.

O'Brien, 31, could have set him straight easily. A sales representative for Tallgrass, a craft beer brewed in Kansas, she's also a certified cicerone -- kind of a sudsy version of a sommelier.

Read the rest at the Detroit Free Press.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Coming soon

Yeah I know, no posts in a long while. I'm sorry,  really. There are posts coming. I promise. Posts about beer in Mississippi and Panama and of course more small batch brews. Stay tuned.