Author: Julie Johnson Bradford
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Behind the Scenes at the GABF
November 1, 2008 - Julie Johnson Bradford It’s a Saturday afternoon in October at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, on the final day of the Great American Beer Festival. When the doors open for the sold-out members’ session at 12:30, several thousand members of the Brewers Association or the American Homebrewers Association flood in. Cups and programs in hand, they start... View Article -
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Barguments
September 1, 2008 - Julie Johnson Bradford We have a shelf full of silly books in the office on various beery topics: beer games rated by the risk of throwing up, implausible ways to open a beer bottle, beer cartoon books and the like. When Barguments arrived, I mentally slotted it into the same category: a book you would never purchase for... View Article -
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Beer in Holy Wood
May 1, 2008 - Julie Johnson Bradford One of the boldest steps in the wood-aging of beer comes from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Delaware. The iconoclastic company has installed the biggest wooden fermenting tanks built for the North American brewing industry since before Prohibition: 10,000-gallon tanks (322 barrels) crafted from palo santo (Spanish for “holy wood”), an exotic hardwood from Paraguay. -
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The Beer Guppy’s Guide to Southern California
September 1, 2007 - Julie Johnson Bradford There’s the Beer Hunter, Malt Man, the Beer Bitch, the Beer Enthusiast, the Malt Maven, the Beer Goddess and the Beer Babe—and those are just the ones I correspond with regularly. Enter the Beer Guppy: a small, thirsty fish ready to swim in the big waters of Southern California. And these are beery waters, indeed,... View Article -
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Pint-sized Ireland
May 1, 2007 - Julie Johnson Bradford This is a book about just one brand of beer: many, many pints of just one brand of beer. Evan McHugh, like many other young Australians, strapped a pack to his back for a long odyssey away from his remote homeland. With him was a companion named Michelle, but referred to as Twidkiwodm (“The woman... View Article -
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The Russell Scherer Award for Innovation in Brewing
May 1, 2007 - Julie Johnson Bradford The Russell Scherer Award for Innovation in Brewing was first given in 1997 to honor Russell Scherer, who died in 1996 at 38 years old. He was, by anyone’s reckoning, a character in the brewing world, reckless, risk-taking and wildly humorous—and a creative force in the brewing world of the nineties. Schehrer was a founding... View Article -
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The RSA Winners, In Their Own Words
May 1, 2007 - Julie Johnson Bradford 2006—Dan Carey, New Glarus Brewing Company The same names keep coming up and coming up and coming up in press releases and I think to myself, don’t these guys ever make beer? Writing all those press releases is a lot of work! 2005—Greg Noonan, Vermont Pub and Brewery I worked as a carpenter, then a... View Article -
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The Men in the Big Rubber Boots
May 1, 2007 - Julie Johnson Bradford If you love the beers of Rogue Ales, take a moment to thank the inhospitable environment of Los Angeles. If John Maier had not found the sprawling city unbearable, he might not have left a lucrative job in the aerospace industry, might not have gravitated to brewing, and might not have made Rogue the innovative... View Article