On the latest Beervana podcast, Jeff Alworth and Patrick Emerson travel to Seattle, where they record live at some of the city’s breweries and then reflect on the beer scene of their neighbor to the north. Jeff Alworth is the author of The Secrets of Master Brewers, The Beer Bible and Cider Made Simple. You can... View Article
On the latest Beervana podcast, Jeff Alworth speaks with Ben Love of Gigantic Brewing Co. in Portland, Oregon. Love recently travelled to China as part of the 8×8 Brewing Project, which paired eight breweries from the Pacific Northwest with eight breweries from China in its inaugural year. The collaboration beers were poured at the 8×8... View Article
Jeff Alworth and Patrick Emerson visit Hopworks Urban Brewery in Portland, Oregon, to learn about the packaging side of craft beer. Hopworks has both a canning line and a bottling line, and they discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both and go deep into the details of canning–increasingly the preferred package type for many small... View Article
Autumn brings cool weather and hot takes on the latest Beervana podcast. Jeff Alworth and Patrick Emerson also discuss the previous week in beer and sample through a few fall favorites. Jeff Alworth is the author of The Secrets of Master Brewers, The Beer Bible and Cider Made Simple. You can find him blogging at Beervana.... View Article
Jeff Alworth and Patrick Emerson take another deep dive into a classic style, this time with saison. In centuries past, these were the beers made by farmers to both preserve their harvest and slake thirsts over the coming year. Production of the style dwindled throughout the 20th century, and would have gone extinct if not for some... View Article
Jeff Alworth sits down with Dan Kenary, co-founder and CEO of Harpoon Brewery in Boston, to discuss the brewery’s origin story, the New England market, pay-to-play and the beer that changed the brewery’s fortune forever. And if that leaves you wanting more, you can listen to Alworth’s full interview with Dan Kenary below: Jeff Alworth... View Article
Jeff Alworth recently traveled to Boston to divine the secrets of the region’s hazy, juicy IPAs. He brought back several cans of New England IPAs from his trip, and in an effort to determine a correlation between flavor and cloudiness, he and Patrick Emerson poured these beers into an earthenware mug and tasted them blind.... View Article
What do Mexican lagers, the Independent Craft Brewer Seal and Kelsey Grammer’s new brewery have in common? They’re just a few of the summer hot takes discussed on the latest Beervana podcast. Jeff Alworth is the author of The Secrets of Master Brewers, The Beer Bible and Cider Made Simple. You can find him blogging at... View Article
Ahead of the 30th annual Oregon Brewers Festival, Jeff Alworth and Patrick Emerson run through the festival’s beer list to discuss the beers they are most looking forward to, and how the festival’s lineup reflects larger trends in the beer industry. Want to dive even deeper? Alworth also breaks down the Oregon Brewers Festival in... View Article
