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 ...

Glaser’s no stranger to beer design: he created the Brooklyn Brewery’s logo back in 1990. Perhaps that’s why he seems fairly critical about the design of the many beer labels he was invited to ...

WE ARE SURROUNDED BY LABELS. THERE ARE THESE STEREOTYPICAL LABELS THRUST UPON HIGH SCHOOLERS, THE GOTH KIDS, THE JOCKS, THE THEATER KIDS. WE’RE SURROUNDED BY PHYSICAL LABELS TO WALK DOWN THE AISLES OF ...

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 ...

“I have a theory that most of design, in general, is the creation of affection,” says Milton Glaser, the 84-year-old graphic-design legend, who created the I ♥ NY logo. When it comes to craft beer, ...

Behind the frosted glass at your local bottle store stands an unorthodox display of modern art. You’ve slugged back its muse for years, popped its logoed caps to get at what’s considered the star of ...

A giant panda, with a Three Heads Brewing beer truck tucked under one arm, and an irritable look on its face as pterodactyls fill the sky, has climbed downtown Rochester’s Times Square Building. It’s ...

Andrew Parks is a Minneapolis-based writer and editor who covers topics ranging from food, drink, dining, and travel to arts and culture. "Highland was ready for a big change," explains the creative ...

This month Flying Dog Brewery is launching a 1st Amendment Society, funded by the damages the Maryland company won from Michigan officials who tried to ban its Raging Bitch Belgian-Style IPA. The new ...

Jim Stitt stands in the beer aisle of the grocery store, his russet-colored jacket keeping him just warm enough a couple feet from the icy open fridge. A 30-something guy standing next to him darts ...

Walmart’s introduction of a stealth private label craft beer line is drawing mixed reviews from drinkers, who generally like the price and don’t mind the taste, but harbor some reservations about its ...