A Meditation on the Great American Beer Fest

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I remember sitting at the foot of my girlfriend’s bed one morning and realizing that I’d only had sober sex three times in my life. The night before, I’d actually thrown up a bit of beer foam on her belly in the midst of it (she mistook it for sweat).

What’s Pumpkin Ale-ing You?

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Pumpkin ales have always perplexed me. Not because they’re an inferior type of beer, but because they seem to only exist as a novelty. Although pumpkin ale is, according to the Samuel Adams website, “one of the oldest beer styles,” like pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks, they’re only there to fill a seasonal niche. (They’re [...]

We Read Other Men’s Magazines So You Don’t Have To: Alan Richman on the All-Important Second Bottle of Wine

Magazine: GQ Issue: September 2010 Story: “The Second Bottle” by Alan Richman I like drinking beer. In four years of college I drank more Busch Light and Keystone than any self-respecting young man should. Toward the end of school I tried to develop a taste for “better” beers. At first I treated myself to Bud Light. [...]

Drinking (and Driving) With Dad

In an excerpt from his new book, Are We Winning?, Will Leitch writes about beer, baseball, and his forgiving father.

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