For as long as he has worked in beer, Peter Bouckaert has also worked in wood. He spent a decade early in his career at Brewery Rodenbach, a brewery with several cellars filled with large, oak foeders containing sour ales. Later he would grow his own “foeder forest” at New Belgium Brewing Co., where he... View Article
Oscar Wong opened Highland Brewing Co. in 1994, making it one of North Carolina’s oldest breweries. Before Asheville became a mecca for beer lovers, Wong was quietly producing the brewery’s flagship Gaelic Ale in a basement downtown. It didn’t take him long to outgrow that space, and the brewery has continued to evolve its taproom... View Article
At this year’s Great American Beer Festival, the crew from Melvin Brewing blared hip-hop from their bus, fired T-shirts from cannons and hung out with the wrestler Hacksaw Jim Duggan. And these celebrations all came before the brewery won two gold medals (for its Wet Hop Melvin and Hubert MPA) and was named Brewery Group... View Article
In 2017, Sixpoint Brewery overhauled several core brands, unveiled an app for a new series of small-batch beers and brought in Eric Bachli, previously a head brewer at Trillium Brewing Co. in Boston. Yet all of this is just the beginning of a new plan to change the industry over the next 10 years, according... View Article
Off-centered goodness was already coming from the taps and the kitchen at Dogfish Head’s new brewpub in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, yet there was founder Sam Calagione, paintbrush in hand, applying the finishing touches. Calagione, who had weeks before been named Outstanding Wine, Spirits or Beer Professional by the James Beard Foundation, was slathering yellow lyrics... View Article
Matt Van Wyk has been brewing for nearly two decades, and always for someone else’s company. Last year he became one of three partners at Alesong Brewing & Blending in Eugene, Oregon. In a recent conversation on “After Two Beers,” a podcast with All About Beer Magazine editor John Holl, Van Wyk talked about the... View Article
Raleigh Brewing Co. and 75+ additional breweries will pour at World Beer Festival Raleigh, held Saturday, April 1 at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds. Click here for tickets. Raleigh Brewing Co. held a huge anniversary party earlier this month, drawing thousands to the building that’s been home to the brewery for the past four years. But that building’s... View Article
Oak & Dagger Public House and 75+ additional breweries will pour at World Beer Festival Raleigh, held Saturday, April 1 at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds. Click here for tickets. Exhausted after a long drive from Wisconsin, Pete McCabe backed his U-Haul truck into the parking lot of Tyler’s Taproom in Raleigh. It was 2013, and McCabe was... View Article
In July of 2015, Knee Deep Brewing Co. founder Jeremy Warren left the brewery he helped build. At Knee Deep in Auburn, California, Warren brewed a variety of hop-heavy styles like Breaking Bud IPA, Hoptologist Double IPA and Simtra Triple IPA. He’ll continue to focus on such styles at Revision Brewing Co., his new venture... View Article
