All About Beer
| Categories | Food and drink magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Bi-monthly |
| Publisher | Daniel Bradford |
| Total circulation (2012) |
46,000 |
| Year founded | 1979 |
| Company | Chautauqua, Inc. |
| Country | USA |
| Based in | Durham, North Carolina |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.allaboutbeer.com |
| ISSN | 0277-5743 |
All About Beer is an English-language magazine published by Chautauqua, Inc., located in Durham, NC, USA. It is published six times per year, plus one special annual issue, and has a distribution of over 46,000, with subscribers and newsstand sales in more than 40 countries.
All About Beer is the oldest American publication for beer consumers. It is written for the beer drinker, particularly those interested in new developments in craft beer and specialty brewing.
All About Beer was founded in Los Angeles in 1979 by printing executive Mike Bosak and six colleagues from the print and publishing world. The first issue appeared in March of that year. None of the original founders was a beer expert.
In 1982, ownership of All About Beer passed to MacMullen Publishing of Anaheim, CA, though Bosak and fellow founders Kenneth Yee and Terry Bratcher remained involved. By its third volume, the publication had adopted a conventional four-color magazine format. In 1988, Mike Bosak and his wife Bunny re-acquired the magazine.
When Bosak retired in 1992, he sold All About Beer to Daniel Bradford, one of the founders and the first general director of the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, and an occasional contributor to the magazine.
Bradford moved the magazine to Durham, NC. Julie Johnson served as editor from 2000 to 2011, with Bradford as publisher. The magazine is co-owned today by Bradford and Johnson.
In 1995, All About Beer Magazine entered into an agreement with the Beverage Testing Institute (BTI, later Tastings.com) of Chicago to publish the results of the institute’s regular sampling of beers, grouped by style family. Each issue of All About Beer publishes a survey article on the most recent tasting results, a guide to what readers should expect from each style, and tasting notes on various beers.
All About Beer’s companion website, allaboutbeer.com, was launched in 1997. The sites contains regular beer news, two blogs, on-line-only beer reviews, and an archive of over 2,500 magazine articles and posts dating back to 2002.
English beer authority Michael Jackson began writing for All About Beer in 1984, and contributed “Jackson’s Journal” to the magazine for 23 years, until his death in 2007. This was Jackson’s longest regular association with any publication.
Fred Eckhardt first wrote for the magazine in 1986, and began his regular column, “The Beer Enthusiast,” the following year.
Regular contributors include Jeff Evans, Charlie Papazian, and Roger Protz,
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