If you're not a big beer drinker, it's easy to assume that every kind mostly looks and tastes the same. But just like with any subject, learning more about it means digging into the smaller details.

IT’S EIGHT minutes past the tapping hour on a recent Friday night, and the crowd gathered at the Daily Pint in Santa Monica is restless. “Have we been teased? I don’t even see a firkin,” says a ...

With the thwack of a mallet and an occasional spray of beer, tapping a cask can be quite a spectacle. It’s not one we witness often on this side of the pond, but in England it’s standard practice.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For years now, “real ale” has been regarded with the same indulgent fondness you reserve for your out-of-town ...

At a Philadelphia bar in 1996, Christopher Leonard first noticed cask-conditioned beer after seeing a bartender slowly pour a pint from an unfamiliar hand-pump. Curiosity soon led to his first glass, ...

Higgins 1239 SW Broadway, 503-222-9070, higginsportland.com. Higgins was the first fine-dining spot in Portland to focus on beer from local breweries, and in their classic wood-grain bar they always ...

Pubs will be offering consumers extra cask ales, free tasters, brewery tours and there will even a pub quiz to test cask trivia knowledge. Cask Ale Week is an annual celebration of Britain’s national ...

Scroll down for six cask ales to try plus why The Thinking Drinkers love beer so much BOOZERS are giving away one million free tasters of beer during Cask Ale Week, which begins today. In a bid to ...