Drinking Undercover

It all has an air of film noir: You enter the brewery tasting room, order a beer, and settle in. Inconspicuously, you note everything that’s going on around you: how the beer is poured, how the glassware is handled, how you and others are treated by the staff.

Tree Beer Brewing With Wafer Ash

Throughout brewing history, fermented beverages have used native ingredients. Plentiful and readily available, honey, dates, corn, as well as various herbs and spices often appeared in the recipes of historic or ancient beers. In much of Northern Europe, grog, Gruit, mead, and Braggot were commonplace before the German Reinheitsgebot, or purity law, of 1516 was instituted specifying that beer should contain nothing more than barley, yeast, hops, and water. 

Lord Of The Barflies

Beechwood-aged Bourbon County Stout. Goose Island Light. A Shocktop-Honker’s Ale mash-up.

Morgan Alexander Founder And Brewmaster, Tacoma Brewing Company

Tacoma Brewing Company was born as a side project out of a Tacoma, Wash., coffee shop, where owner Morgan Alexander sold his ales alongside his coffee. After 5 years of running the brewery like a commercialized homebrew venture and sweating out 10-gallon batches, Alexander moved into a new, larger space in May 2017. From the city’s historic Brewery District, he now has the fermentation capacity to satisfy demand for his bold, flavorful IPAs, and the elbow room to brew more of his sought-after Stouts and barrel-aged ales. “It’s definitely a labor of love,” says Alexander. “I like a good challenge. I’m stubborn. I don’t like giving up. For me, this has been all about the journey, and the people you meet along the way.”

Living Beer Styles And The Death Of William Younger's XXP

Coming across a beer I once drank in the records of a brewing archive sends a frisson down my spine, almost as strong as the first time I heard Hawkwind’s “Silver Machine” on Top of the Pops. XXP is one of those rare beers.

Not (Just) For Tourists

Patagonia’s Beer Boom.

ODD13 Brewing

Every good comic book character needs an origin story, and the one for our hero, Codename: Superfan, begins a few years back, not in Gotham but in Portland, Maine.

Wort's Weird Journey

Following Beer’s Sometimes Unpredictable Path From Grain to Glass.

Laura Boada

Founder & brewmaster, Zambo Creek Microcervecería.

A Festive Shift

Why Beer Events Are Moving Beyond the One-Size-Fits-All Model.

Hazy Days And Brighter Futures

Craft brewing once defined itself by wide-ranging innovation. Brewers pushed past previously defined boundaries to explore the outer edges of what constituted beer. They based some ideas on long abandoned brewing traditions, conceiving others out of sheer boredom or pure devilish curiosity. The age of extreme was a wild one, where anything could (and did) happen. It was fun, brutish, and, thankfully, a stepping stone on the path to greater beer knowledge.

Albany, New York

America’s Forgotten Beer City.

A Theory of Evolution

It’s been a year of intrigue, plot twists and turns no one could plausibly claim to have seen coming. The big guys continued their steady shopping adventures, scoring many flashy new outfits while quietly lamenting craft-on-craft deals, like one Tampa-based looker that went to a peer. Multimillion dollar deals begat billion dollar deals, while a half-dozen or more transactions constantly swirl in the rumor mill.

Reuben's Brews

We’ve all heard the old adage about teaching a man to fish.With a slight twist, it often rings true in the beer industry,too: Buy a man a beer and he’ll drink for an hour, but give him a homebrew kit and he’ll quit his day job and open a brewery. Something like that.

Big In Japan

Stouts in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Drew Fox

Founder and Head Brewer, 18th Street Brewery.

The Southern Brewing Company

Home of the University of Georgia Bulldogs and musical legends such as REM and the B-52s, Athens, Ga., is a cultural hub known for its eclectic dining, music, arts, and more recently, for its rapidly evolving beer culture.

Happily Single

It’s a Wednesday night in Prague and I’m sitting in a popular, newish beer hall just outside of the tourist zone. It’s packed with hundreds of young locals, seated at square tables, deep in conversation interrupted only by quick jolts of laughter at a joke told well. While it’s remarkable that almost no one is on a phone, there is one thing even more striking: everyone is drinking the same beer.

Seattle's Pike Brewing Expands, Adds New Dining Concept

Pike Brewing Company, one of the oldest breweries in the Pacific Northwest, will expand for the third time in 28 years when it opens Tankard & Tun next to Seattle’s Pike Place Market at the end of June.

Data Analysis Made Easy

Because so much of the brewing process is very hands-on, the results can be a little fickle: raw ingredients can vary, brewers can miss the timing on hop additions, and so on.

Vigilante Bar

Most bartenders wouldn’t exactly welcome a Risk board and all of its cards, figures, and dice on their bar top, but at Vigilante Bar in Austin, Texas, beer is served with a side of board games.

Robert Turley

Head Brewer, Community Beer Works.

Calculating For The Future

Can Breweries Provide More STEM Jobs for Women?

Both Sides Of The Coin

CDFI Funding Boosts Craft Breweries and Struggling Neighborhoods

9 steps to beerdom

taylor ziebarth founder and brewmaster, oddwood ales

can you taste the music?

breweries and bands collaborate on beers inspired by song.

Beer Culture

Rescuing Food Waste Through Brewing

Sound The Alarm

Craft Brewers Stoked Over Retired Firehouses

Beer Culture

Pabst Brews in Milwaukee for the First Time in Decades.

No More Warm Beer

Sunshine and warmer temperatures are finally heralding in the long-awaited changing of the seasons.