Julie Johnson

For an exotic taste combination, have you ever sampled beer with chocolate? If you smile at the memory, then you know your beer. If you’ve just grimaced at the thought, be assured we’re not talking PBR and Hershey’s bars. There’s a world of beer flavorand chocolate flavorfor you to discover. With a week remaining before […]

The Triangle is one of the hottest craft beer markets in the country, so much so that breweries in other regions leapfrog over intervening states to bring their beer here. Even so, we’ve supported a fairly small number of local breweries, relative to the popularity of specialty beer styles. Chapel Hill has been the friendliest […]

If your relatives think of beer as the undemanding beverage of summer, here’s a way to shake up their assumptions: Arrive at the family holiday get-together cradling a jeroboam of Samichlaus. The elegant three-liter bottle suggests champagne, but the potent garnet-colored beer inside is a perfect introduction to the complex, warming beers of winter. Brewers […]