Author: Sarah Annese

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  Brewing Features

  The Perfect Address: Breweries Passing Along Buildings Makes Opening, Scaling, and Creating Communities Easier

  March 6, 2017 - Sarah Annese Imagine starting a brewery on a shoestring, cobbling together a small system, making just one barrel of beer at a time. Then, after working tirelessly to reach a point where demand exceeds capacity, miraculously being able to move into a new location already outfitted with the exact equipment needed to expand. Improbable? Not quite. In... View Article
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  Beer Weekend

  48 Hours in Brooklyn

  September 1, 2016 - Sarah Annese Maybe it’s your grandmother who was born there; or it’s Francie Nolan, whose coming-of-age story, told in Betty Smith’s novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, depicts early 20th-century Williamsburg. Could be the DIY movement, gentrification or plaid shirts. Whatever your impression of Brooklyn, it has a thriving and quickly expanding beer scene. During this weekend... View Article
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  A Closer Look

  A Blossoming Beer Scene in New York’s Hudson Valley

  May 1, 2016 - Sarah Annese With its rolling hills, lush foliage and sparkling river views, New York’s Hudson Valley is certainly a tourist destination. Apple orchards, artists’ communities and even a culinary school dot the region. In the past few years, the area along the Hudson River south of Albany to the tip of Manhattan has become a cradle of... View Article
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  Brewing - Brewing Features

  Shandies and Radlers

  August 14, 2015 - Sarah Annese Is there an official beer of summer? Starting well before Memorial Day each year, ales and lagers with summer in their names, picturing all manner of warm-weather activities or leisure, begin arriving on shelves and on tap. It’s a can-popular season, and from lightly spiced ales to citrus-heavy wheats, or even specialty-branded American lagers, there’s a... View Article
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  Web Only

  Tea: An Untapped Beer Ingredient?

  April 23, 2015 - Sarah Annese From breakfast stouts to coffee porters, there are plenty of beers brewed with morning’s buzzy beverage. But what about its counterpart, tea? Although it’s not yet a full-blown trend, some breweries are experimenting with different flavors of the other steeped drink, and remark on its versatility. Stone Brewing Co.’s Japanese Green Tea IPA is a... View Article
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  What's Brewing

  American Brewers Make Their Mark on British Cask with Caskerator

  January 1, 2014 - Sarah Annese For those who enjoy cask ale but wish it could stay fresh a bit longer, Hugh Sisson, founder of Maryland’s Heavy Seas Beer, has a solution. He calls it the caskerator, and it looks like a standard kegerator. But instead of hooking it up with a regular draft tower, Sisson and his team created a... View Article