Author: Anne Fitten Glenn
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Beer from the SourceSponsored: San Diego Beer Week Celebrates Nine Years and Countless Beers
October 13, 2017 - Anne Fitten Glenn Presented by the San Diego Brewers Guild Craft beer enthusiasts rejoice—the ninth annual San Diego Beer Week takes place Nov. 3-12, and the number and variety of celebratory events are off the chart. As one of the most established and well-known national beer weeks, this one not only features San Diego County’s 150-plus breweries, but... View Article -
Beer from the SourceBritish Columbia’s Craft Beer Renaissance
July 4, 2017 - Anne Fitten Glenn Presented by The BC Ale Trail Craft beer’s re-emergence in the late part of the 20th century has followed many crooked and winding paths. In Canada, in the late 1970s, an ongoing series of worker strikes at the big three breweries (Molson, Labatt, and Carling) created frustration at both the governmental and consumer levels. Those... View Article -
Beer from the SourceExploring the breweries of beautiful British Columbia
June 13, 2017 - Anne Fitten Glenn Presented by The BC Ale Trail Self-guided brewery tours have proliferated in step with the craft brewery boom. Most craft brew-centric cities in the U.S. offer versions of these “come try our beers and stay a while” itineraries. Now ale trails are popping up in the provinces of our northern neighbor as well. A series... View Article -
Beer from the SourceSponsored: Tracking Beer Sales in Real Time
April 24, 2017 - Anne Fitten Glenn Presented by GoSpotCheck There are entire books and college classes that cover the challenges of supply chain management and optimization. And now there’s an app for that. The three-tier system regulating alcohol sales and distribution can make keeping up with beer sales particularly challenging. A number of businesses offer software and apps to help. GoSpotCheck’s... View Article -
Beer from the SourceSponsored: From Hop Fields to Homebrewers
December 20, 2016 - Anne Fitten Glenn Presented by Yakima Valley Hops You’re a homebrewer and you live in the motherland of hop production, but you can’t get your hands on any of the fresh cones growing all around you. What do you do? If you’re John Snyder and Jeff Perkins, you start a business as the hops pushers between the Yakima... View Article -
Beer from the SourceSponsored: Make Brewer-Approved Beers At Home With PicoBrew
December 12, 2016 - Anne Fitten Glenn Presented by PicoBrew. Drinking local has become standard practice for much of the country, especially among beer aficionados. At the same time, craft beer folks crave variety, as evidenced by that fact that every U.S. Chamber of Commerce with a brewery in its boundaries—which is many of them—now pushes beer tourism. While visiting your favorite... View Article -
Beer from the SourcePour a Perfect Head with this Countertop Draft System
September 20, 2016 - Anne Fitten Glenn Presented by Fizzics Craft beer drinkers tend to agree that beer is best at the brewery or on draft at a favorite taproom. Longtime colleagues Philip Petracca and David McDonald started talking about how great draft tastes compared to cans or bottles while having post-work beers at Brooklyn Brewery a few years ago. There are... View Article -
Beer from the SourceSponsored: The Mystery of Firestone Walker’s Luponic Distortion Series
August 29, 2016 - Anne Fitten Glenn Presented by Firestone Walker Brewing Company Take an India pale ale. Dry hop it with a variety of hops, then release it to the beer-loving public. Sounds like what lots of breweries are doing these days, right? So how do you mix it up? If you’re Firestone Walker Brewing Company, you decide to completely change... View Article