Area man writes 66 words of a 1600-word article, drinks beer.

Wow. It’s really happened.

According to NIQ data for 4 weeks ending 4-20-24, beer imports have taken over the domestic beer category in the U.S.

For the 1st time ever.

In April 2024, I tried 180 new (to me) beers.

My top five were:

Drekker Brewing Clueless Wonder
Evil Twin Brewing Supreme Leader Marlon
Luppolo Brewing Co. Onda Pilsner
Sierra Nevada Beer E.H. Taylor Bourbon Barrel-Aged Bigfoot
Stone Brewing Fear Movie Lions

#TheDons5

Remember when Joan Rivers would guest host the Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was away?

I Joan Rivered the Drink Beer, Think Beer Podcast. Guess what we talked about?

Area man is gonna party like its 1999, drinks beer.

I made a cameo on the Country Malt Group BrewDeck Podcast recorded live at the 2024 Craft Brewers Conference.

Have a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s-5…

Here are the winners of the Brewers Association 2024 World Beer Cup:

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The Brewers Association delivered its annual state of the industry address today. My latest for Forbes .com

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It's #EarthDay ! Here are 35 breweries committing to sustainable sourcing:

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At this time last week, I was Good Word Brewing for the Little Beers Festival. I was given a can of halfwaycrooksbeer to bring home and now I wish I lived in Georgia.

Did you know you can go to my contributor page on Forbes.com and read everything I've written?

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Update: this piece of art I wrote about sold at auction for USD$19,000!

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Friendly reminder: I'm not the droids you're looking for.

I love tasting beers and taking notes on them. But I hate updating my database of those tasting notes.

That said, I just finished updating Dontappd with the beers I tasted while in Georgia for Good Word Brewing's Little Beers festival. In four days, I tried 73 new (to me) beers.

This is a cool episode of the All About Beer Podcast. Hops are just coming out of the ground in the northern hemisphere, but they were just harvested in the southern hemisphere. We talk to hop growers from both hemisphere to get the latest hop news.

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★ Just published a new episode of All About Beer: AAB 044: The 2024 Dual Hemisphere Hop Report. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/9c4e4dee

There is one more day to bid on an incredible collage portrait of Abraham Lincoln made from Civil War era newspapers!

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The Brewers Association released 2023 list of largest craft breweries in America today, along with industry production numbers. Here is my latest for Forbes.com:

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I forgot to attach this photo, because I'm terrible at social media.

I was in Duluth, GA for Little Beers. While there, Steal This Beer recorded live episodes, so I sat in as a guest taster. Hosted by John Holl and Augie Carton, the first live guest was Lucas Todd DiMatteo of Good Word Brewing (host of Little Beers).

stealthisbeer.com/episodes/2024/…