I’ll never forget the first time I had a Velvet Hammer. The Anvil in Dallas, now sadly closed, was a Texas approximation of an “English-style” pub, which in practice meant dark wood interiors and an absence of the American kitsch that usually adorns the walls of dive bars on this side of the ocean. Before moving to the US in my mid-twenties, I thought beer was fine—a lubricant for hanging out and getting drunk, rather than a thing of pure beauty. But the US beer scene and the beer s...| Pellicle
The headline — Costco Is Coming for Craft Beer — about store brand beers reads like click bait. The story itself, on the other hand, serves interested readers well. But . . . I can̵…| Appellation Beer
Here’s all the writing about beer and pubs that grabbed us in the past week, from Manchester to Acid House.| Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog