What Is Malt?
What is malt, how is it made, and what does it do for beer? Malt is the foundational ingredient of beer, and here we learn all about how it get used to make your favorite beer.
French Broad, Burial, & a Beautiful Beer & Chocolate Friendship
French Broad Chocolates and Burial Beer in Asheville, North Carolina, enjoy an ongoing creative partnership that has led to some of the most interesting (and tasty) beer chocolates and chocolate beers in the country, including a new collection of beer-infused chocolate bonbon bars.
Loon Chocolate Founder Has a Background in Craft Beer
Scott Watson was a professional craft brewer before founding Loon Chocolate. He sees many similarities between these two artisan worlds.
5 Chocolate Beers for Mother’s Day!
Let’s be honest—what mom really wants for Mother’s Day is a drink. And if that drink includes chocolate, all the better! More and more craft breweries are working with ethically-sourced cacao to create delicious and nuanced chocolate beers. Here are five great chocolate beers to enjoy with mom this Mother’s Day.
3 beans and a chocolate bar
Corina Gimenez brings together Venezuelan cacao with Norwegian culinary ingredients at Xoco by Corina, a bean to bar chocolate company in southwest Norway.
What’s the Difference Between Ales and Lagers?
There are dozens of craft beer styles, and almost all of them fit into one of two categories: ale and lager. But what’s the difference? It’s simpler than you think.
Sara Ratza Loves Plants
At Ratza Chocolate, Sara is infusing a lifetime of herbal knowledge and a world of botanical flavors into her bean to bar chocolate.
Favorite Beer & Chocolate of 2020
2020 was a hard year, but at least there was good beer and chocolate. Here are beer writer David Nilsen’s favorite craft beers & bean to bar chocolates of 2020.