River Rat Brewery and 75+ additional breweries will pour at the ninth annual World Beer Festival Columbia, held Saturday, Feb. 18 at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds. Buy your tickets today! It’s been almost three years since River Rat Brewery opened just around the corner from Williams-Brice Stadium in the “famously hot” city of Columbia, South Carolina.... View Article
Bierkeller Columbia and 75+ additional breweries will pour at World Beer Festival Columbia, held Saturday, Feb. 18 at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds. The inaugural Oktoberfest at the Cayce Brick Works kicked off on Sept. 17, on the banks of the Congaree River just across the bridge from Columbia, South Carolina. It was the same day... View Article
Editor’s Note: This story appears in the January 2017 issue of All About Beer Magazine. Click here to subscribe. The brewery had only been open for nine months when Brown Truck Brewery was named the best very small brewing company and Ian Burnett best very small brewing company brewer of the year at the Great... View Article
Editor’s Note: This story appears in the November 2016 issue of All About Beer Magazine. Click here to subscribe. Since the start of his brewing career nearly a dozen years ago, John Stewart has been lucky to work with barrels. From New Holland Brewing Co., where he was responsible for barrel aging Dragon’s Milk, to... View Article
Ryan Witter-Merithew’s 10-year journey as a brewer has taken him from rural North Carolina (Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery), to a tiny island off the coast of Denmark (Fanø Bryghus), to the United Kingdom (Siren Craft Brew) and finally to his current role brewing at one of America’s hottest breweries (Hill Farmstead Brewery). Now, after working for... View Article
This interview appears in the September issue of All About Beer Magazine. Call this the house that Heady Topper built. This July, the Alchemist Brewery was to open a new space in Stowe, Vermont, where enthusiasts and cult followers can once again pick up the famed double IPA (which is largely credited with spurring the... View Article
Three decades into a distinguished brewing career, Rebecca Newman is a strong advocate for quality beer. After starting at Anheuser-Busch and following a stretch making sake, she set up the quality program at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. She then moved east and helped create the Samuel Adams “perfect pint” glass and later worked on recipe... View Article
Firestone Walker Brewing Co.’s Parabola and Union Jack. Boulevard Brewing Co.’s Saison-Brett and Unfiltered Wheat. Brewery Ommegang’s Hennepin and Abbey Ale. And Duvel. As president of Duvel Moortgat USA, Simon Thorpe oversees the work that goes into all of these beers. This requires, he says, keeping two somewhat opposing goals in mind: ensuring each brewery... View Article
Earlier this summer, New Belgium Brewing Co.—the 8th -largest brewery in the country—announced that its longtime president, Christine Perich, would assume the role of CFO/COO and president, succeeding Kim Jordan, who founded the brewery with her then-husband Jeff Lebesch, in 1991. Perich, who now oversees all areas of the brewery, sat down with All About... View Article
