On our site you can find the sitcom “Professor Sanguinetti’s Campaign for Normal Beer.” It portrays a professor from the University of Modena, who, finding himself in New York on an academic exchange [...]

Heaven forbid. It is a traditional regional beer. It follows faithfully the style of beer prevalent at the end of the 19th century in the Austrian Empire and also in Modena with its traditional ties to Vienna [...]

Until about 40 years ago, beer was simply beer, denominated by type (for instance, lager or ale). Many markets were dominated by industrial-scale breweries, which often produced beers of uniform taste, which went from the light to the flavorless. [...]

Without needing to suit the uniform tastes of mass-produced industrial beers, which tend toward the flavorless, craft breweries produce beers that may be appreciated for various reasons. Craft beer offers many distinct tastes, styles taken from [...]

The normal beer drinker, even an aficionado, may raise various objections to craft beer. It is very often harsh, heavily hopped and therefore bitter. Its alcohol content is often well above [...]

Yes, it is traditional industrial beer. It is associated principally with regional beers that have maintained their various distinctive flavors. They have a regional base of clients that know well and appreciate their beer and do [...]

Beer should be poured with foam. In a common malpractice many barkeepers and waiters ease iit down a tipped glass without creating a single bubble. That way all the beer’s carbon dioxide is swallowed and [...]

1) In Australia lager is served at 1°C whereas in general it should be served at 6°-12°C according to exact type. Consequently, one hardly tastes it, which may be just as well for certain Australian lagers. [...]

Saigon, off Rue Catinat (Tụ-Do), in April of 1968, three months after the Tết offensive of the Vietcong. The curfew had been lifted in the center of the city, where an Australian soldier, on leave [...]

In honor of the elections (Italian elections of March 2018) we propose to you: -Beer of the broad political spectrum -Beer of the mutual back-scratching deal -Beer of the true-blue iron men