Since April of 2009, I’ve been writing a syndicated biweekly column, Brooks On Beer, for the Bay Area News Group, a subsidiary of the MediaNews Group. The MediaNews Group owns and operates over 50 newspapers in 11 states. The Bay Area News Group consists of 14 newspapers throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area. My column usually runs in at least six of those, including the Oakland Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News and the Contra Costa Times.
Here are my columns, with the most recent at the bottom of the list.
- Every New Journey Begins With the First Sip (Apr. 22, 2009)
- Widmer Brewing Celebrates 25 Years As Beer Pioneers (May 6, 2009)
- Yeast Is A Beast: Sierra Nevada’s New Kellerweiss (May 20, 2009)
- The Password is … Speakeasy (June 3, 2009)
- The Tied House Untied (June 17, 2009)
- Summer of Beer (July 1, 2009)
- Public Beer Enemy #1: The Sun (July 15, 2009)
- Black IPA (July 29, 2009)
- Have a Real Ale (Aug. 12, 2009)
- Gluten-Free Labeling Approved (Aug. 26, 2009)
- September is Oktoberfest (Sep. 9, 2009)
- Judging Beer Doesn’t Have To Be Judgmental (Sep. 23, 2009)
- 99 Bottles of Beer at the Museum (Oct. 7, 2009)
- Impression of a Great Beer Festival, American-Style (Oct. 21, 2009)
- The Unsung Brewers of the Very East Bay (Nov. 4, 2009)
- Drinking Life & Limb (Nov. 18, 2009)
- ‘Tis the Season for Holiday Beers (Dec. 2, 2009)
- Utopias: Looking for Perfection in a Glass (Dec. 9, 2009)
- Pairing Beer with Your Holiday Beer (Dec. 23, 2009)
- Beers to Drink on a Cold Winter’s Night (Jan. 6, 2010)
- SF Beer Week (Jan. 20, 2010)
- The Uncommon California Common (Feb. 3, 2010)
- Beer and Food, a Marvelous Pairing (Feb. 17, 2010)
- Springtime For Beer (Mar. 3, 2010)
- Stout Day (Mar. 17, 2010)
- Out Like a Lambic (Mar. 31, 2010)
- India Pale Ales (Apr. 14, 2010)
- Aging Beer (Apr. 28, 2010)
- Fritz Maytag Sells His Anchor Brewery (May 5, 2010)
- How To Taste Beer (May 19, 2010)
- Betsey’s Belgians (June 2, 2010)