Chicago brewery Goose Island is credited with helping to popularize the tradition of releasing a Black Friday beer — it's since evolved into an unofficial beer holiday. Breweries use the day to ...

FEEL LIKE A HEAT WAVE. ABSOLUTELY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. LAST NIGHT, SOME BEER FANS BRAVED THE COLD TO BE THE FIRST IN LINE AT LAKEFRONT BREWERY. TODAY, THEY RELEASED THEIR BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL BEERS, ...

A cicerone, Gilinsky explains, is an old-fashioned word newly restored to favor, essentially the beer world’s answer to a sommelier. His path to certification began in San Diego, where he enrolled in ...