This excerpt is from Joshua M. Bernstein’s Drink Better Beer, which is available now. As America closes in on being home to 8,000 breweries, beer labels are becoming more and more important as a way ...

1978 was the worst year for beer diversity in post-Prohibition America, with only 89 breweries operating in the entire country. Most of those breweries sucked, so a nation addled by other drugs might ...

“Sex sells” is a phrase often used in advertising. But are craft breweries taking the tactic too far? John Holl, editor of All About Beer Magazine, thinks so. His recent column asking breweries to ...

Video editor Trevor Carmick is receiving all sorts of attention for his new side project called Beer Labels in Motion, a collection of beer labels cleverly animated in GIF format. Carmick was inspired ...

This month Flying Dog Brewery is launching a 1st Amendment Society, funded by the damages the Maryland company won from Michigan officials who tried to ban its Raging Bitch Belgian-Style IPA. The new ...

A colleague (OK, he’s my boss) recently suggested a column idea, and I swear I’m not following through with it as some sort of loyalty play. The colleague (let’s call him “Matt’’) is a craft beer fan ...

“I have a theory that most of design, in general, is the creation of affection,” says Milton Glaser, the 84-year-old graphic-design legend, who created the I ♥ NY logo. When it comes to craft beer, ...

This year alone, 29,500 individually designed beer labels have been submitted for approval to the Trade Department’s Tax and Trade Bureau. And every single one of those label designs was approved or ...

Dani Somers, Megan Merrigan and Mia Mozzoni, all members of Dover Youth 2 Youth, are advocating for stricter enforcement of alcohol labelling laws to protect minors. Last month, the members of an ...