A fresh new take on an old stalwart. Long before I savored my first legal, or illegal, sip of beer, my major high school hobby was music. Nights meant attending concerts, mainly punk and indie rock, ...

This time of year can be tricky for beer drinkers. One day it might be 45 degrees and you’re bundled up as it drizzles throughout the afternoon; another day might feel more like August than October.

After a recent trip to the beer aisle, I was feeling overwhelmed with choice -- “analysis paralysis” as some call it. There is a lot of beer out there, and there’s a dragon I feel many beer drinkers ...

There are a lot of great collaboration beers in the history of the craft beer movement. Perhaps it’s several IPA factories joining forces to create the latest must-get hoppy beer, like Fort George’s ...

With the weather heating up, the kids out of school and a long Memorial Day weekend ahead, summer is here in south Louisiana. So it’s only fitting that we turn our attention this week to the original ...

Saison means “season” in French, as the beer style of that name originated in the farmhouses along the border of France and Belgium at a time when the warming days of spring meant an end to a winter ...

A few days before last month's DC Beer Week, Barrett Lauer, head brewer at District Chophouse & Brewery, poured seven beers into one metal tank. He had brewed only one of them, which, he says, was ...

Saison, meaning season in French, hails from Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium. Once brewed to quench the thirst of field workers, it’s becoming one of the more popular craft beer styles ...

These saisons are best enjoyed during fall. Their flavor profiles are fruity with a touch of rustic spice and aromatics. Occasionally still referred to as farmhouse ale (as it was traditionally brewed ...

The story behind how Allagash Brewing Co. and Brasserie Dupont came to collaborate on a saison begins with the style’s idiosyncrasies. After all, saison is a style full of contradictions. On the one ...

The saison family of beers can be bewildering. What was once a simple fact of life working on a farm has grown into a huge and hotly-contested category of Belgian- and French-style ales. Saisons can ...