That good old bier
The latest in the ongoing series I Never Met a Beer/Cheese I Didn’t Like. Altbier or alt, is a German style that sits happily somewhere between an ale and a lager. The word alt translates roughly to old, and in German beer culture that also means ale—the family of beers that chronologically preceded lagers. Altbier is [...]
Welcome Firestone Walker
Chicago beer drinkers may have never had it so good. Three or four new local breweries have opened in the last couple of years, while extra-regional breweries are finding distributors here who can get their beers in front of the hop-thirsty masses. And now the two are happening together. In a couple of hours, Firestone [...]
We’re Talkin’ Taleggio!
For this installment in the I Never Met A Cheese I Didn’t Like series we visit Italy to meet Taleggio. The name Taleggio has been in use since before the 10th century in the caves of Val Taleggio, a tiny village at the base of the central Italian Alps. It might be the granddaddy of soft, [...]
