Unlike wine corks, which are designed to be porous, beer bottles are sealed with crown caps, and modern crown caps actually do a really good job of keeping air out of the bottle all on their own.

Like you, I'm not a major fan of corks on beer bottles because I have courted many a hernia trying to twist off those stupidly unforgiving mushrooms, ...

Why do champagne corks expand after opening the bottle?Kyle Kurani:It all depends on how long the cork has been in the bottle.Champagne starts its life with a crown cap (a beer bottle top) with a ...

There's a new brew for you, too — a "champagne" made of beer. A collaboration between Samuel Adams and Germany's Weihenstephan Brewery, Infinium comes in a Champagne-style bottle with a foil ...

But certain daring producers are embracing the seemingly proletarian beer-bottle closure for a number of reasons. In part they may want to avoid defects associated with cork.