Dylan Katz

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What’s Brewing: FestivAle delivers once again

For beer snobs, no single event is both reveled and loathed quite as much as the beer festival. On the surface, beer fests are fantastic—you arrive and exchange your ticket for a program (more like a listing of breweries and beers) and a glass, which has unlimited refills. Naturally, it’s very tempting to get the most for your money and drink as much as you can. Sadly, this is what really tends to annoy those who are there to enjoy a wide variety of craft beer—there always seems to be a large group of drunken idiots who want to be loud, obnoxious and try to ruin it for everyone.

What's Brewing: British beers fall below par

My roommate recently turned me on to the fantastic PBS show “Downton Abbey,” part of PBS’s Masterpiece Theater. If you haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, you probably should, because it may be the best show on television. Anyway, besides getting me to call everything “unbecoming” or wondering how the Earl of Grantham would perceive whatever activity I’m currently in the middle of, Downton Abbey has really put me in a British mindset. And so, keeping that at the forefront of today’s article, I’ve decided to take a hop across the pond (the Atlantic Ocean, for our geographically-challenged readers) and check out some of Britain’s finer beers.

What's Brewing: bargain beers in bulk

Usually I’m one of those beer snobs who spends $10 or so for a six-pack of beer. Honestly, it’s not the most prudent choice for a massively in-debt law student, but there’s no way I plan on skimping out on my beer. Occasionally though, I’ll see a deal that really piques my interest and leaves me no choice but to go for something cheaper.

What’s Brewing: it’s the most wonderful time for a beer

The time between Thanksgiving and winter break is always one of the gaps I look forward to the least. However, once the stress of finals has passed, my mind slowly turns to all things associated with the holidays—gifts, latkes, gelt and, for the goys (aka non-Jews)—ham, decorating the tree, and whatever else you people do on Christmas.

What’s brewing: soup for your beer

For decades, wine has been regarded as a “classy” drink. While beer was busy gaining a reputation as the drink of the working class and drunk college students (alright, not much has changed in this regard), wine was quickly acquiring a following of wealthy snobs who placed it over everything else as a drink of status. Of course, wine now comes in boxes and beer in pricey, single bottles, but it’s important to remember that it hasn’t always been that way.

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