Per Grimm, the beer spike must be heated to above 1000°F before being plunged into the beverage. This creates the soft, ...

Understated but malty beers are known to work well with spicy dishes as they balance the heat without erasing the flavor. For ...

There’s no country more famous for its beer than Germany. That reputation is well deserved according to veteran beer writer Stephen Beaumont, author and co-author of fourteen books on the topic, ...

Munich is famous for its beer gardens, where locals and tourists come together at long communal tables to savor traditional beers. These brews are made according to the strict German beer purity laws ...

Lowry Beer Garden, which opened in the old Hangar 2 building in Lowry in May, was built to celebrate German beer-drinking culture — a culture that wouldn’t be complete without brats and streudel, ...

MUNICH — It looked like all the other beers in the sea of giant one-liter glasses at the Augustiner Brewery tent at Oktoberfest, but Peter Asen’s mug harbored a secret: His drink was nonalcoholic.

In Germany, the world’s largest Oktoberfest celebration will pack Munich’s beer halls from Sept. 20 through Oct. 5. But in the Bay Area, the celebrations go on for weeks, running right up to Halloween ...