Author: Julie Johnson

• 
  Food - Full Pints

  Craft Beer and Artisan Cheese

  March 1, 2010 - Julie Johnson When Cindy West left a career in accounting, she and her husband Dorian spent a year in Paris, where she trained as a chef. Back in her home state of North Carolina, she worked in restaurants until the demanding schedule of a professional chef collided with the needs of young children. The couple bought a... View Article
• 
  Full Pints - Pull Up A Stool

  with Liam Hanlon

  March 1, 2010 - Julie Johnson Over here, we tend to think of brewing in Ireland as being dominated by one very big brewing company and two smaller ones. Tell me about the rise of craft brewing culture there. These days, it’s really one big company and one smaller one, Diageo and Heineken. Craft brewing really took off in Ireland in... View Article
• 
  Uncategorized

  I Can, and I Do

  February 20, 2010 - Julie Johnson Along with their greater safety for beach trips and golf courses, and lighter weight on backpacking trips, there’s another reason to value craft beers in cans. It’s one the breweries can’t extol—so I will. A cold night, a dark cinema, and film in which there is lots of jolly eating and drinking. I have come... View Article
• 
  Uncategorized

  The World’s Greatest Job

  February 11, 2010 - Julie Johnson Last week, the staff of All About Beer Magazine had the kind of day that our readers think we have every day:  before noon, we moved straight from our morning caffeine fix to drinking lots and lots of different beers. Here in the office, on the clock, we got paid for drinking beer. The night... View Article
• 
  Uncategorized

  Soup du Jour

  January 25, 2010 - Julie Johnson Launching a blog has reminded me of the start-up bands I played in through high school. In the age of Led Zeppelin and the Strawberry Alarm Clock, the first, most critical decision was, what would we be called? The first several practice sessions, meant for playing music, were spent instead with pen and paper, brainstorming... View Article
• 
  Full Pints - Pull Up A Stool

  with John Withey

  January 1, 2010 - Julie Johnson You’ve brewed at just about every size of brewery during your career. I started in Greene King doing a pupilage, and then an improvership―you never hear of that these days. Then I spent 20-odd years at Whitbread, which was then a national brewery, I was seconded to various places all over the U.K., and, of... View Article
• 
  Full Pints - Styles Features

  Inside the Barrel

  January 1, 2010 - Julie Johnson In 1994, Chicagoans were treated to an extraordinary beer created to celebrate the 1,000th batch brewed at the Goose Island brewpub: Bourbon County Stout, an intense, black stout that brewer Greg Hall had aged in oak barrels fresh from the Jim Beam bourbon distillery.
• 
  Full Pints - People Features

  The Young and the Restless

  November 1, 2009 - Julie Johnson American craft brewers are a famously congenial bunch. Even as they compete for your beer money, they help one another out, they step in to lend equipment and ingredients to one another, they trouble shoot for each other, and they happily enjoy one another’s beers. Occupying what is still a small corner of the U.S.... View Article
• 
  Full Pints - Pull Up A Stool

  with Karl Ockert

  January 1, 2008 - Julie Johnson You’re practically synonymous with BridgePort Brewing Co. Haven’t you been with the company since the very beginning? Yes, I basically built it. I got out of UC Davis with a BS in Fermentation Sciences in 1983 in June, and I hired on with Dick Ponzi at Ponzi Vineyards in July. The very first time I... View Article