In craft beer’s Jurassic age, when Buds ruled the earth, a few Paleolithic beer hunters sought something bitter and better. They discovered the Pale Ale, the beer style that – with its enthusiastic ...

Just 20 years ago, if you had reached into your fridge for any beer produced by a small, independent brewery, there’s a roughly 99.99% chance that brew would have been coming out of a glass bottle. In ...

In a beer marketplace where everyone seems to be obsessed with trying the newest, hottest beers and tagging them on Untappd, BeerAdvocate, and other apps and sites, sometimes it’s nice to take a break ...

Have you ever made a multi-state drive just to get a beer? Folks revere this single-hopped Midwestern brew to the extreme.

Over the past 20 years, pale ales, and particularly India Pale Ales (IPAs), have gone from a semi-obscure craft beer darling to a beer style as ubiquitous as mass-market lagers. They’ve turned hops ...

When it comes to the hierarchy of beer styles that American brewers have put their own spin on, it’s pretty tough to beat the appeal of the American pale ale. It all started in 1980, when Ken Grossman ...

Comrade Brewing Co. won a Silver Medal in the American-Style Strong Pale Ale category for its Superpower IPA. Photo courtesy of Kai Malm The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...