This year alone, 29,500 individually designed beer labels have been submitted for approval to the Trade Department’s Tax and Trade Bureau. And every single one of those label designs was approved or ...

This excerpt is from Joshua M. Bernstein’s Drink Better Beer, which is available now. As America closes in on being home to 8,000 breweries, beer labels are becoming more and more important as a way ...

A colleague (OK, he’s my boss) recently suggested a column idea, and I swear I’m not following through with it as some sort of loyalty play. The colleague (let’s call him “Matt”) is a craft beer fan ...

True confession: The first bottle of Black Dog Ale I ever bought wasn’t for the taste or the price or even the reputation. What separated that six-pack from hundreds of others in the 40-foot-long beer ...

El Greco, the great painter and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, was gazing at the night sky when he declared, "Art is everywhere you look for it." And, indeed, it is right there in the tranquil ...

What’s in a name? Controversy. The names and images emblazoned on some beer labels have disturbed everyone from consumers to regulators. The beer: Santa’s Little Helper, an imperial stout from Port ...

AKRON, Ohio — Charles Johnson isn’t exactly sure why he started collecting beer labels. He just knows that he’s never been able to stop. It was 1955 and Johnson, then a senior at the University of ...

We know not to judge a book by its cover, but these suave beer labels are making it hard for us not to do that. As more and more craft beers enter the market, and with quality improving leaps and ...