A ceaseless beat kickstarts “Dead Drummers,” the new single from Near Beer. The song is the third single heralding their self-titled album, out July 15 on Double Helix Records. As the beat ushers in ...

When local folks walked into some of their favorite taverns late in 1923, they were greeted by an unpleasant surprise. The traditional swinging doors and the bar fixtures were gone. Frustrated by ...

Half a dozen Pacific Northwest craft breweries are diversifying into making nonalcoholic beer. But instead of brewing bland and watery "near beer," they're injecting quality and variety into a space ...

Beer occupies a spot of heady importance in our lives. It accounts for 88 percent of all alcohol–by volume–consumed in the United States. We bowl “beer frames,” see through “beer goggles,” and develop ...