Brewers leave breweries all the time, and the news doesn’t generally warrant much comment. But rarely is a brewer’s personality so entwined with the beer as Gansberg’s is with Cascade—for all practical purposes, he is Cascade.
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Homebrew Con is upon us! The annual conference of the American Homebrewers Association begins towmorrow in Portland. Today, in the final installment of my profiles of local brewers, we get to know Tracy Hensley.
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Every large brewery in the world is attempting to adjust to the disruption caused by craft beer. The challenge is moving into new categories without damaging the currency of the flagship brand. Guinness is trying an entirely novel approach in the United States.
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Something slightly different today—a book that touches only tangentially on beer, but which may leave you feeling better about the country: Our Towns by James and Deborah Fallows.
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Baltimore’s Union Collective is another example of the way breweries can inject life and community into neighborhoods waiting to blossom.
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On June 21, Oregon will become the first state offering breweries refillable beer bottles. The not-for-profit cooperative that oversees Oregon’s bottle bill will run the project, collecting and redistributing bottles for refilling. If the program succeeds, it could become a model for the nation.
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Two of the world’s leading beer writers have new books out. Here are reviews of Joshua Bernstein’s Homebrew World and Stephen Beaumont’s Will Travel for Beer.
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One of the best new breweries in the Pacific Northwest isn’t in Portland or Seattle, but way down the Columbia Gorge in Goldendale, WA. To get a full sense of the range of the beers on offer, you may have to go visit yourself.
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Portland’s drinking culture is female-friendly, and when you walk into a pub in the city, you see what the numbers reflect--a crowd evenly split between men and women. In Portland, women are becoming increasingly visible as authorities here--as brewers, business owners, and writers.
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Oregon is home to around 250 breweries, and rare is a town of any size without at least one. Here are twenty of the best, geographically dispersed so you're never far from a tasty pint of beer.
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Where can you find a brewer with a “lambic farm” who makes his own invert sugar? In the second post in my pre-Homebrew Con series about homebrewers, I profile Portland’s own Bill Schneller, who champions traditional styles.
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Cities grow and change. Density arrives to fill in empty lots, take over under-used developments, and creep toward desolate regions. The old is tilled under to make way for the new. Except sometimes, when the old parts of the city manage to hang on.
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Last week I traveled to Baltimore to learn more about the new Guinness brewery project unfolding there. I wanted to be one of the first to delve deeply into the thinking behind the project, its scope, and its goals. Today we'll get into the brewery project itself, which is breathtaking in its ambition.
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I intended to go on a brewery tour when I visited Baltimore, but an experience at my first stop, The Brewer’s Art, sent my evening on a different trajectory.
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In this guest post, trademark attorney Brendan Palfreyman explains how breweries can get into legal trouble with their cultural appropriations—even when trademark infringement may not be at issue.
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