There comes a time every August when I begin to say, “Please God, let it be fall.” I can’t help it. My people were made for snow and 15 minutes of daylight, not 10 sequential days of 90-degree heat.

(CNN) — “Do you know where IPAs come from?” I have asked many a friend, with my elbow angled upon the bar holding “exhibit B” in a pint glass, and hoping they don’t already know the answer. Heaven?

At the Craft Brewers Conference & Brew Expo America 2004 in San Diego, there were dozens of speakers, hundreds of vendors and — I’m spitballing here — gazillions of beers to sample. For the savviest ...

The west coast-east coast rivalry goes beyond weather, sports and ’90s hip-hop. The coastal debate takes place in the beer scene, too, where west coast IPAs and east coast IPAs vye for the attention ...