The people have spoken. And, unlike so much in America, they speak with a single, unified voice. From coast to coast, people’s preferences with respect to hazy IPAs are remarkably consistent. They also hint at a move back toward a drier, more bitter palate.
Read MoreI stepped into the exhibition hall in Oslo and felt a buzz of excitement, like an electrical current, crackle through the jubilant crowd. It was my first beer festival in over a thousand days, and despite its distant location, it felt familiar in all the best ways.
Read MoreAmericans are increasingly aware of kveik yeast, which comes from the Western fjords of Norway. Too few are aware of the surviving tradition that preserved those yeasts, or how it’s so much more than just about brewing. I hope my description, along with a short film, offer more context.
Read MoreI need your help! I’m working on an article about the way IPAs have evolved in different regions of the US. If you have a few minutes and you live in the US, please consider filling out this survey. I’d love a robust sample size, so share it with your friends!
Read MoreI am finishing up my short trip to Norway, and have a brief comment and some pictures to hold you over until the real blogging can begin.
Read MoreStanding in front of the taplist at Brygg in Oslo, you might mistake it for a pub in Ohio. After a few days in Norway, one brewery tour, and three sessions at the Oslo Craft Beer Festival, I can tell you we’re not in Ohio anymore.
Read MoreAs a response to the strife of 2020, Reuben’s and Metier created an immersive, stipended mentorship program called the Mosaic State Brewers Collective. Here’s the story behind the program, which is now taking applications for year two.
Read MoreThe beer at Mountain View Brewing is the fourth-most important product, and visitors realize immediately they’ve actually wandered in to a winery. The beer, however, is no afterthought.
Read MoreI’m off on a grand adventure—some programming notes before I go, and a request for any hot tips you might have.
Read MoreDefunct companies are almost never resurrected—but that’s exactly what happened this morning when All About Beer came back on line. Veteran writers Andy Crouch and John Holl performed the miracle.
Read MoreElon Musk’s potential purchase of Twitter (pending approval) gives me a good opportunity to talk about speech, public squares, and the curious way in which regulation encourages more participation.
Read MoreFinally, the Beervana Blog delivers exactly what you want in 2022—a 1997 feature! Get out those AOL addresses, friends, because today the blog offers new email subscriptions. Sign up today!
Read MoreAll the world wants the next IPA. The trouble is that, while they’re churning out scores of new versions every year, too few breweries have the time to dial in their beers.
Read MoreThe 1926 warehouse at southeast 7th and Morrison has housed two breweries—the Commons and more recently Modern Times—and in July it will get a third. Called Living Haüs Beer Company, it is the project of three established brewers and will focus on lager.
Read MoreMolson Coors-owned Hop Valley announced they were reviving Henry Weinhard’s Private Reserve. But they did so on April 1. A week later, Molson Coors wrote a blog post expanding on the news. Was it real? A joke? And if it’s real, does it make any sense?
Read MoreThe Oregon Beer Awards, always curious about new ways to evaluate excellence, this year debuted a new method designed to limit the inevitable randomness of a beer competition. The results showed judging isn’t so random—but can be improved.
Read MoreAmong living beer styles, rare is the is the case where a single beer accounts for the survival of a whole tradition, but it’s mostly true in the case of saison. Well, a single beer, an English writer, and an American importer.
Read MoreThe Brewers Association released preliminary numbers on how breweries did in 2021 today. It includes some good news, some surprises, and very little bad news. I have the highlight findings, and a nice list of how this year’s top-50 breweries fared over the past year.
Read MoreLast week on Twitter, I posed a question. If you were to tell the story of American brewing post-1980 in six breweries, which would you choose? The answers people gave were so much more interesting than my question.
Read MoreAs surely as the warmth returns to the earth, lagers return to the hands of drinkers. But please, for the love of god, quit calling those delicious pilsners “crispy.” That’s just wrong.
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