Aaron Goldfarb lives in Brooklyn and is the author of The Guide for a Single Man and The Guide for a Single Woman. His writing on beer has appeared in Esquire, Playboy, The Daily Beast, Draft Magazine and more.
Aaron Goldfarb
Are the World’s Most Iconic Lagers Just Bud in Different Bottles?
Nearly every country has its own claim to beer fame, from Imperial in Costa Rica to Mythos in Greece. But just how many of these beers are truly connected to…
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- photo: Lizzie Munro
Drinking with Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh
The prolific director of Erin Brockovich and Magic Mike talks with Aaron Goldfarb about everything from the best bar scenes in film to his obsession with the obscure Bolivian spirit,…
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- photo: Doron Gild Photography
A Brief History of Collaboration Beers
Since Russian River and Avery launched beer's first "collaboration beer" in 2006, high-profile partnerships between breweries have become a fixture of the industry. But how many of them are actually…
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- photo: PUNCH
Can Big Beer Really Make Great Beer?
Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors have both launched independent brewing laboratories to experiment with making more esoteric "credibility beers" that take cues from the margins of the craft beer scene. Aaron Goldfarb…
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- illustration: Natalie K Nelson
Confessions of a Beer Ticker
The psychology behind amassing alcohol often harkens back to childhood collection obsessions—from baseball cards to Bourbon County Stout, from pogs to Pappy. Aaron Goldfarb on his own collecting evolution and…
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- photo: Lizzie Munro
The American Brewers Redefining Farmhouse Ale
Farmhouse ales, long the domain of Belgium and France, have been co-opted and riffed on by American brewers. Aaron Goldfarb on the ten breweries—on and off the farm—who are redefining…
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- photo: Hill Farmstead Brewery/BMM Images
Whatever Happened to the Singles Bar?
The 1960s gave birth to a new era of urban nightlife centered around the "singles bar"—a genre of male- and female-friendly watering holes that proliferated along the far reaches of…
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- illustration: Yoonhwa Jang
The Quick Rise and (Tragic) Fall of Bed Clubs
There was a time when the hottest place to go on night out was a nightclub with beds in it. Aaron Goldfarb delves into the meteoric rise—from anarcho-artists' collective in…
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- photos: SUPPERCLUB
What the Hell Is “Summer Beer”?
Since Anchor Brewing debuted the first self-identified "summer beer" in 1984, the category has yielded some of America's best-selling beers. And yet it has no official definition. Aaron Goldfarb on…
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- photo: Lizzie Munro
You Don’t Hate IPAs, You Just Think You Do
The IPA, a generously hopped style of pale ale that has become synonymous with craft beer, has become the the whipping boy of many who are still scarred by the…
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- photo: Ben Jay
