If you were to surf over to Beer Advocate’s "Top Beers on Planet Earth" list, at the very top of the list (ranked as the number one beer in the world) you’d find Trappist Westvleteren 12, a Belgian qu

I am overdue in highlighting a Unibroue beer in this column. Unibroue is located in Québec, Canada, and was among the earliest North American breweries to produce Belgian-style beers. Indeed, Unibroue

Everyone knows Samuel Adams Boston Lager. You’ve seen the commercials with Jim Koch examining the hops he puts in the beer. You’ve heard the slogan and indeed, Boston Lager is a world class brew. Than

One of the tragic consequences of Alabama’s draconian restrictions on the brewing and selling of beer is that countless beers legal even under the old 6% ABV limit were not distributed here. Breweries

I must confess that when I first heard Tommy-knocker beers were coming to Alabama I was markedly unexcited. Those of us immersed in beer-geek culture are prone to getting caught up in the hype over ce

I promise I won’t devote every other week to talking about Good People beer. The world of beer is enormous and full of diversity; this column will strive to explore that diversity. But Good People Fat

I kicked off this column by praising the virtues of Good People Snake Handler Double IPA. I think it would be helpful to turn now to something on the opposite end of the beer spectrum: Saison Dupont.

Now that the hops are much more free than they were two months ago (but not completely free — stay tuned to freethehops.org for continuing efforts to liberate beer in Alabama), our selection of beer i