ACB covers craft beer news, entertainment and lifestyle 24/7, and we’d like to think we do a decent job. But there’s a lot of great craft beer journalism out there – and here some recent beer articles that you might want to check out.

Craft Beer Invades The Motherland

Germany has long been home to the Reinheitsgebot purity law and classic breweries like Holsten, Erdinger and Löwenbräu who have dominated the region for decades But they are all now being impacted by scrappy craft beer upstarts (both local and newcomers from abroad like Stone, who just opened a new destination brewery in Berlin) and they are shaking things up in a big way. Whether it’s because of intimidation or renewed inspiration, things are definitely heating up over there – and now there’s real competition brewing in Germany as consumers tire of traditional beer.

Old Beer At Retail A Growing Industry Problem

Hardly a new problem, but most certainly one that shows little signs of dissipating, old beer on retail shelves, well beyond their “sell by date,” is an accelerating trend that should concern both the industry and the consumer. At $12 six-pack (and more times than not much higher than that), craft beer is a product that consumers are willing to pay a premium for. And for that kind of money craft beer fans deserve “the best” – and old beer is far from that. A recent tour of Philadelphia retail serves to highlight a nationwide problem that MUST be addressed. And you can read all about in Old Beer.

Mind-blowing Ways To Open A Beer

We all know that bottle openers can come and go – and so many times they’re not there when you need them. And although this doesn’t actually qualify as “an article we wish we had written” and is actually “a video we wish we had made” it’s still lots of fun. So check out open a beer bottle with 17 random items care of lifehacker (a favorite resource of ours) and you’ll be able to drink your way through any apocalypse.