Andrew Gill
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Can craft brewers change more than just the beer industry? (Plus 6 to drink this month)
A $213 billion crowdfunding campaign launched in October. No, James Cameron isn’t using a “Zach Braff” financing model for his Avatar sequels. This fundraising is an attempt to buy Anheuser-Busch InBev to keep it from buying any more craft breweries. → Read More
Light lagers aren’t rebellious (plus 6 beers to drink this month)
Pick Six is The A.V. Club’s monthly recommendations for the beers we’re currently digging. → Read More
A hearty Prost! to the beers of Oktoberfest
Welcome to Gateways To Drinkery, where The A.V. Club offers an entry-level course on our favorite libations, and some suggestions on where to start drinking them. → Read More
A hearty Prost! to the beers of Oktoberfest
Welcome to Gateways To Drinkery, where The A.V. Club offers an entry-level course on our favorite libations, and some suggestions on where to start drinking them. → Read More
How independent should craft beer be? (Plus 6 to drink this month)
Pick Six is The A.V. Club’s monthly recommendations for the beers we’re currently digging. → Read More
What it means to be a craft beer, plus 6 to try in August
In June, the Brewers Association announced its “Independent Craft” seal—a graphic meant to distinguish the 5,562 breweries that fit its definition of craft beer from those owned by the big bad corporations. In its announcement, the association cited a new Nielsen survey that found that 81 percent of → Read More
6 beers from true craft breweries that you should drink this month
Pick Six is The A.V. Club’s monthly recommendations for the beers we’re currently digging.On June 2, it came to light that one of the longest-running beer review sites, RateBeer.com, had sold a minority stake to Anheuser-Busch InBev’s venture capital arm, ZX Ventures. As if that weren’t upsetting en → Read More
6 craft beers for June that Anheuser-Busch hasn’t bought yet
While the rest of the world obsessed over Comey, Russia, and massive document dumps in May, the craft beer world followed its own completely separate soap opera. First, on May 3, Anheuser-Busch InBev bought Asheville, North Carolina’s Wicked Weed Brewery, a highly regarded regional brewery known for → Read More
For West Side Students, Playing Outside Is Protesting Against Gun Violence
Students at a West Side grammar school did something this week they rarely do because of Chicago’s gun violence: they played outside. → Read More
‘I Just Hope There Are Enough Of Us’
After two summers successfully quelling violence on one block in Englewood, Tamar Manasseh is trying to spark a movement across Chicago. → Read More
Pilsner, often derided as fizzy yellow beer, is the gold standard of lagers
Welcome to Gateways To Drinkery, where The A.V. Club offers an entry-level course on our favorite libations, and some suggestions on where to start drinking them.The lowdown: Craft beer sought to destroy it. They derided the style, mocking it as “fizzy yellow beer.” But credit where it’s due: Pilsne → Read More
Craft beer has become a true protest symbol in the age of Trump
While the mind reels imagining all the ways President Trump will yet change the world, he has already created one unlikely outcome: He’s solidified craft beer as the protest commodity of choice. Throughout Trump’s campaign, a number of the more than 4,000 breweries in the U.S. sold beers—“Dumb Donal → Read More