Cleveland style BBQ is a regional barbecue style created by chef Michael Symon at Mabel's BBQ, which opened on East 4th Street in downtown Cleveland in April 2016. It pairs meat smoked low and slow over local fruitwood with a thin, tangy sauce built on Bertman Ball...
Cleveland keeps its own calendar. The leaves are still hanging on, the Halloween candy is still marked full price at the drugstore, and yet every October there is one Thursday when this city decides, collectively and without asking anyone else, that it is Christmas....
The Great American Beer Festival moved outdoors this year, to Levitt Pavilion in Denver on October 10 and 11. The part that matters to brewers happened before anyone poured a sample: blind judging, style by style, with the 2026 competition open only to American...
October in Ohio does something to a beer drinker. The air turns, the patio heaters come out of storage, and the taplists start telling you exactly what time of year it is without anyone having to say it out loud. This is the month when the farm and the fermenter sit...
Hops is the Pints, Forks & Friends AI sommelier. He lives in the chat bubble on this site, and his job is to answer the questions we get asked at every bar we walk into: what beer goes with this, where are the wings worth the drive, and what should I drink when the...
Fritz Maytag at Anchor Brewing Company | Photography courtesy of Anchor Brewing Company Three years ago, we ran this story under a headline about endings. Anchor Brewing, America's first craft brewery, shut its doors after 127 years, and it felt final. Turns out final...
The Story of Westmalle Brewery: A Trappist Dubbel Turning 100 Somewhere behind abbey walls in a small Belgian town called Westmalle, twenty-two monks and about forty secular brewery staff are quietly clocking in on a beer recipe that just hit its hundredth birthday....
Grill cleanup is the part nobody talks about. You spend three hours nursing a brisket, your friends show up, the cold ones get cracked, and eventually everyone goes home full and happy. Then you're standing there alone at 10 p.m. staring at a box of burnt drippings...
What is the Ohio Eggfest? The Ohio Eggfest is a Big Green Egg grilling competition and fundraising festival held annually in Central Ohio. The 2026 edition, the 10th annual event, takes place on Saturday, July 25th from 10:30am to 3:30pm at Fortress Obetz in Obetz,...
Does Amazon Prime Include Free Grubhub+? Yes. Active Amazon Prime members get a free Grubhub+ membership included with their Prime subscription at no additional charge. Grubhub+ normally runs $9.99 a month — $120 a year — so if you have Prime and you have not...
