The Top 12 Beer Cities of 2010

You are an avid beer lover. In fact, you love to travel to see breweries and try out the local bar / pub scene. Yesterday (08/31/2010), an article from the Huffington Post published the top 12 beer cities around the country.

We’ve highlighted their results below with a little flair from the Beer Universe community. What’s most impressive about this list is that the US has 4 cities (33%) in the list! Cheers to our Beer Universe comrades!

1.) Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Heineken, Grolsch, and Amstel are common names to be found amo...

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Fried Beer Is Finally Here

We’re huge fans of fried Oreo cookies and snickers bars. In fact, most of the traditional carnival food you can find is, by definition, delicious. So if we can’t get most fried food, what about fried beer?

This year at the Sixth Annual Big Tex Choice Awards competition in Texas someone finally hit the nail on the head. Mark Zable has trademarked the name Fried Beer. Well, it seems as though you can fry anything you eat and now drink.

You may be asking yourself how in the world Mark Zable came up with this recipe. Does it taste good? “We are able to place beer inside a salty pretzel like dough, and deep fry it. When you take a bite, beer p...

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Nutritious Beer: The Darker the Better

Reminiscent of the turning seasons, beer styles often change just before the first spring bloom or last falling leaf. Seeing that we are approaching the fall season, the seasonal change is taunting our taste-buds to crave a heartier, autumn inspired brew.

Interestingly enough we were pleased to read an old article provoking the benefits of the darker, maltier flavors of fall and winter. A study first conducted by the University of Wisconsin in 1997 found evidence that drinking darker beers may reduce the risk of heart disease. Obviously, we stress that not like Popeye’s spinach, drinking as much dark beer as you can does not increase health benefits...

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A Challenging Beer for the Craft Market: Pilsners

You may have noticed an emerging trend over the past few years—the rise of the craft movement. Well a common reader of our articles would know that we have been tracking this phenomenon very closely. One type of beer, however, that we did not hear a lot about was Pilsners. Anyone who visits beer stores with the sole purpose of finding a great new quality craft beer can tell you that Ales dominate the craft beer isles. There are a few reasons some brewers point to for microbreweries lack of interest in promoting the Pilsner products.

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How to Brew a Pumpkin Beer

Ok beer fans that time of year is right around the corner. Summers coming to an end, football is just on the horizon, and the holiday season will be here before we know it.

A local brewery on Long Island starts the fall season with its infamous Pumpkin Spice Ale. A rich beer with the entire holiday flavor is the perfect way to start the season.   As a novice homebrewer, I felt that making a pumpkin brew would be a great first challenge to my brewing talent. Keep reading to learn more about how to brew a pumpkin beer:

The first thing you’re going to need is obviously the pumpkin. Though canned pumpkin is doable, and easier to obtain when fre...

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