BEER OF THE MONTH: Surly Coffee Bender
What it is: Minneapolis-based Surly Brewing is relatively small for its glowing national reputation (users of the Beer Advocate website rate it a "world class" brewery). Unfortunately, its tiny stature...
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Goose Island’s annual Bourbon County beers arrive
Ladies and gentlemen, the Bourbon County Brand Stout beers you will not be drinking from Goose Island this year: Blood Orange BCS. Chicory BCS. Mole BCS (with three kinds of...
A restaurant with two faces
There is something odd, if not disconcerting, about spying a $92 menu item during breakfast. Fortunately, as I sat awaiting my French toast at a suburban St. Louis restaurant called...
A restaurant with two faces
There is something odd, if not disconcerting, about spying a $92 menu item during breakfast. Fortunately, as I sat awaiting my French toast at a suburban St. Louis restaurant called...
A restaurant with two faces
There is something odd, if not disconcerting, about spying a $92 menu item during breakfast. Fortunately, as I sat awaiting my French toast at a suburban St. Louis restaurant called...
Michigan Winter Beer Fest: The beer will be cold
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Long underwear. Check. Insulated gloves. Check. Snow boots. Check. Skiing? Mountain climbing? Nope. Beer festival. Outdoors. In February. Enjoying beer and winter at the same time...
Airline fees not sitting well
I faced a seat conundrum when booking a recent trip to Seattle on American Airlines. For the low, low price of free, I could select a middle seat in the...
Surly Brewing to return to Chicago
Some breweries have the all-elusive "it," which captures drinkers' hearts, minds and taste buds like few others. "It" breeds fierce loyalty, whether in the form of long lines for its...
Surly Brewing to return to Chicago
Some breweries have the all-elusive "it," which captures drinkers' hearts, minds and taste buds like few others. "It" breeds fierce loyalty, whether in the form of long lines for its...
Beer of the month
What it is: Introduced on draft two years ago by Arcadia Brewing, in Battle Creek, Mich., B-Craft is an imperial black IPA that soon became a summer and fall seasonal...