Our third of 12 candidates for America's Next Top Beer ... Alpha King Three Floyds Brewery -- Munster, Ind. Hail to the king, baby. Rich, bold and smooth, this amber-colored, caramel-scented brew lives up to its name and is one of the main reasons Three Floyds is carving out a spot for itself at the front of the craft-brew pack. "A small-scale brewery with the heart of a brewpub, Three ...

Our second of 12 candidates for America's Next Top Beer ... Two-Hearted Ale Bell's Brewery -- Kalamazoo, Mich. "Michigan is an underrated beer Mecca," according to expert Joe Sixpack. Perhaps not for long. Bell's Brewery has been selling fine craft beers for 25 years now, spreading from their modest beginnings in Kalamazoo throughout the Midwest and into spots up and down the East Coast. ...

Our first of 12 candidates for America's Next Top Beer ... 60 Minute IPA Dogfish Head Brewing -- Rehoboth Beach, Del. Bold, brassy, hoppy and slightly sweet, there's nothing pale about this IPA. The craft brew masters at Dogfish Head Brewing add premium Northwest hops to this ale more than 60 times during its 60-minute boil. The result is a complex but super-smooth brew, and another winner ...

The campaigning is over, the kegs are kicked, and the taps are dry. It's finally time to do your duty and vote for America's Next Top Beer -- the one small-scale craft brew that truly belongs in coolers from coast-to-coast. The nominees Our search was exhaustive. We pulled together an A-Team of beer experts -- minus the van -- and drilled into their wealth of beer knowledge. We also sent out ...

If you're going to navigate the vast, hops-infused ocean of craft beers, you need a suds Sherpa, an expert to guide you. So when Asylum set out to celebrate American Craft Beer Week by crowning America's Next Top Beer, we assembled some of the finest minds the beer world has to offer. Critics, bloggers, bar masters and even a sommelier -- these people have dedicated their lives to beer. Their ...

You guys know your beer. As part of our search for America's Next Top Beer, we called out for your favorite local craft brews, and you more than obliged. From the Redlands to the Freedom Trail, Asylum readers left plenty of comments highlighting dozens of local favorites that deserve to go nationwide. In fact, a lot of you showed the same taste in craft beers as the critics, columnists and brew ...

We need your beer. Trust us -- it's for science. We're diving into the deep end of the craft-beer pool to find the best brews this boozy land has to offer. (It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.) We're rounding up only the finest local and small-scale brews around, highlighting those that deserve to go nationwide, and eventually naming one America's Next Top Beer. We're enlisting ...

Last weekend, HBO may have aired its most disturbing moment since "Cathouse" introduced us to Air Force Amy. During the latest episode of HBO's "Mayweather-Marquez 24/7," boxer Juan Manuel Marquez wrapped up his training day by knocking back a glass of his own urine ... Yeah, urine. "I think that this has helped me," he says to the camera. "I've done it for the last five or six fights with ...

Like your 401(k), "Land of the Lost" and Plaxico Burress's career, the summer of 2009 is a fast-fading memory. This time of year has always been painful -- it used to usher in the return of teachers, homework and back-to-school shopping horrors. Now, it marks the start of the long, sobering run to the holidays. You can live in denial, or you can suck it up and deal with it. Yeah, we'll take ...