This weekend, on Friday, June 4 and Saturday, June 5, Sloss Furnaces will once again play host to Magic City Brewfest (MCBF), the Southeast’s premier beer festival (that is, if we pretend North Carolina doesn’t exist).

Jolly Pumpkin could have been just another brewery that bottles all of its beer in packages that exceed Alabama’s 16-oz. container limit, prompting it to stay far away from our state. And without one

Another session of the Alabama legislature has come and gone. After a grand victory in 2009—the passage of the Gourmet Beer Bill, which allowed high gravity beers to be sold in Alabama—Free the Hops d

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Craft Brewers Conference in Chicago. The CBC is an annual event organized by the Brewers Association. It consists of numerous seminars designed to further

This is the final installment in my short series focusing on sour beers. Sadly, there aren’t many suitable possibilities in Alabama for me to review. The first column in the series covered De Dolle Oe

Pop quiz: What’s the first adjective that comes to mind when you hear the word “lambic?” If you answer “fruity” or “sweet” (or “What’s a lambic?”) you’ve got some educational beer drinking in your fut

Alabama has a problem. While the influx of world-class beers into the state since the six-percent ABV limit was raised has been very impressive, one critical class of beers remains painfully scarce—so

Highland Brewing Company was the first brewery in Asheville, N.C., and sold their first kegs in December 1994. Sixteen years later, North Carolina is now arguably the beer capital of the South, with s

Every year the Boston Beer Co. conducts a series of tasting events across the U.S. they have dubbed the Beer Lover's Choice Program. They produce limited quantities of two styles of beer and then pit

I'm normally shy about telling you where to buy the beers I cover because I don't want to hand out free advertising or discriminate against businesses I might overlook that carry the beers. But to the