One spring evening in 1978, Byron Burch in his Oakland home listened to a young man from Chico, three hours’ drive north, go on excitedly about plans to start a brewery. He had written Burch, seeking advice. Burch was the owner of a homebrewing shop and the author of the highly praised Quality Brewing, which... View Article
Limagrain Cereal Seeds is developing a new variety of malting barley especially for all-malt brewing. The international agricultural cooperative developed a high-yielding irrigated barley variety in Europe that has performed well in trials held in Idaho, Washington and Colorado. The variety, called LCS Genie, was selected from more than 70 varieties of European barley for... View Article
The Arctic town of Longyearbyen, the world’s most northern town with year-round residents, is getting its own neighborhood brewery, and when Svalbard Bryggeri on Norway’s Spitsbergen Island opens it will earn the title of the Arctic Circle’s first brewery. Robert Johansen, longtime beer enthusiast and seaplane pilot, is behind the brewery, where he will brew... View Article
With 378 permanent draft lines, North Carolina’s Raleigh Beer Garden is in the process of setting the Guinness World Record for largest number of draft beers on individual taps. When he was working on his new bar, owner Niall Hanley wanted to focus on local beer, which in North Carolina is ever-expanding. As construction continued,... View Article
Two Colorado breweries, Left Hand Brewing Co. in Longmont and Odell Brewing Co. in Fort Collins, have established employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). Left Hand launched a program in June after finalizing the repurchase of common shares from current stockholders. Odell co-founders Doug, Wynne and Corkie Odell sold a majority stock interest to three senior... View Article
Last April Fool’s Day, Pizza Hut released a YouTube video debuting its “Pepperoni Pilsner,” brewed with real pepperoni and tomatoes. The joke proved to be inspiration for two Texas breweries, Four Corners Brewing Co. and Intrinsic Brewing, which collaborated on a Pizza Party Beer. The one-barrel batch was brewed “with bready malts, infused with fresh... View Article
Beer tourism is on the rise, and along with it is the rise of the beer-themed hotel and the brewery inn. From brewpub bed and breakfasts, like The Woodstock Inn & Resort and Moat Mountain Smoke House & Brewing Co. in New Hampshire, to beer-themed Airbnbs, where guests can sleep in a converted beer barrel... View Article
Craft beer lost its muse on Aug. 10. It was the morning of that day when Fred Eckhardt, 89, died peacefully in his Portland, Oregon, home with several friends by his side. His death left the craft beer community that he helped build with a big, gaping hole in its heart. Journalistic style be damned!... View Article
Millennials are a sought-after demographic for breweries, and the good news, according to a new survey by ticketing and event company Eventbrite, is that beer festivals are driving millennial drinkers to their brands. The company surveyed more than 5,000 millennial attendees of food, wine or beer festivals ticketed on the platform during 2014 and found... View Article
