Poll: Tasting gender differences
Are men or women better at beer tasting?
Social sustainability
Fiscal froth: beer and government
01.10.2009
Charlie Bamforth considers the age-old contest of the brewer versus the taxman and discovers, bizarrely, that the policy-makers of today could learn a lesson on open-mindedness from Kim Jong-Il's North Korea
Bashing booze: the anti-alcohol lobby
01.12.2009No one condones alcohol abuse, least of all the brewing industry, nor would anyone deny that alcohol is problematic for some individuls. Yet despite the majority of consumers drinking responsibly, there are numerous interest groups intent on demonising drinking culture. UC Davis professor Charlie Bamforth surveys the neo-prohibitionist movement
For heaven's sake: beer and religion
01.09.2009Alcohol has never been the friend of bible thumpers but, as Charlie Bamforth discovers, the mixing of faith and moderate consumption doesn't always result in the weeping of angels or the snarl of demons
More than just mere words: beer and the media
01.07.2009Charlie Bamforth kicks off his series on Social Sustainability, examining the brewing industry’s relationship within the context of larger societal concerns. The good professor loses sleep over a constant vexation: why is wine treated so much better by the media than needlessly humble beer?
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