All About Beer Magazine May 2014 Issue

The New Beer Barons

Beer Is Thicker Than Water

It’s a Beer-Filled World

Brown Ale

Brown ale may never command the attention of IPA or Imperial stout, but neither is it in any danger of fading away. American brewers have ensured a steady number among their more celebrated brews. In Britain, where brown ale is an uncommon find, quite the opposite is true, having declined severely since the 1960s after... View Article

America’s Influence on Japan’s Budding Extreme Beer Culture

The story of Japanese drinking culture is a tale of two countries, and a story of both night and day. The rising sun shines upon a diligent nation of survivalists holding cultural tradition in the highest regard. By day, the country’s citizens are fixated on projecting a proper outward image that communicates their hard-working, upstanding... View Article

How To Extend Your Brew Day

Outfitting a homebrewery capable of making 10-gallon batches allows for an efficient use of precious brewing time. It comes with a caveat though: 10 or more gallons is a lot of one particular brew to have on hand. One solution is to turn it into two different brews. There are many ways to approach this,... View Article

Pull Up A Stool With Johnathan Wakefield

Johnathan Wakefield started as your average homebrewer, down to the homebrew kit present from his wife. But his homebrews became a Florida phenomenon, particularly his “Florida Weisses,” tart wheat beers with tropical fruit twists (because what is woodruff anyway?). After collaboration brews, including with his mentors at Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing, Wakefield launched the most... View Article

Drink Your Own Garden

If you’ve been a homebrewer or beer fan for any time at all, you will no doubt have enjoyed a fair number of unusual styles. Some commercial breweries have staked their claim on the premise of brewing well outside the box of the traditional style. Homebrewers are no less imaginative and adventurous in a quest... View Article

Brewing Arizona: A Century of Beer in the Grand Canyon State

Over half the states in this country are now the subjects of books about the beer culture within their borders. Many of these are focused on the growth of the modern beer movement and are produced by travel-oriented publishers with the beer tourist in mind. A smaller number of such books, however, are inspired by... View Article

Touring Amsterdam

Drinking locally was great fun and great tasting when I lived in San Francisco. Same for Portland. After all, California and Oregon are synonymous with IPA, so much so they named a sub-category for them—West Coast IPA. The same goes for Cascadian dark ales around the Pacific Northwest. So imagine my surprise, and interminable delight,... View Article

Real Beer in New Mexico

New Mexico is a magnificent state culturally, geographically and historically, and it’s popularly known as home to “Breaking Bad.” Thanks to an interest in the locavore movement, the beer culture is thriving as well, with 31 brewing operations scattered throughout the state. Given the distance between towns, focus on the I-25 corridor from Albuquerque to... View Article

Brewery’s Drone Delivery Plan Grounded

A Wisconsin brewery’s inventive plan to deliver beer via drone was halted by the Federal Aviation Administration shortly after it got off the ground. Lakemaid Beer, of Stevens Point, WI, tested out a new drone delivery system in January, airlifting a 12-pack of its Frosty Winter Ale to a fishing shanty on Minnesota’s Lake Mille... View Article

Thousands Register for Chemistry of Beer Course

More than 7,500 students from 80 countries signed up for an online “Chemistry of Beer” course held by the University of Oklahoma’s Janux, an interactive online learning community. The 16-week course, which began in January, features an overview of brewing with a focus teaching chemical processes through brewing beer.  “The technology that is used in... View Article

Revealing 2013 Beer Statistics

Beer is changing in America. The U.S. beer market has decreased by 8 million barrels since 2008, an almost 4 percent decline, based on preliminary 2013 estimates by Beer Marketer’s INSIGHTS (BMI). BMI collected and analyzed beer data from government reports, retail sales trackers and companies themselves. So though final volume numbers from the largest... View Article

Nordic Grog Revived, Reconstructed and Bottled

Leave it to the style-defying, boundary-pushing Dogfish Head Craft Brewery to find inspiration for a new hybrid beer in an ancient Scandinavian tomb. According to new research, ancient Scandinavians as far back as 1500 B.C. supped a “Nordic grog,” a beer-wine-mead hybrid beverage made from a mixture of fermented honey, local fruit like bog cranberry... View Article

Cigar City Moves Forward with Mead and Cider

Cigar City Brewing’s cider and mead side project is about to get a home of its own. Joey Redner, owner of the Tampa, FL, brewery, founded Cigar City Cider & Mead in 2012 with six silent partners. The cider was contracted to a local winery and sold on tap at the brewery and on draft... View Article

From Long Shots to Pros

For the past eight years Samuel Adams has been running its LongShot American Homebrew Contest, giving amateurs a chance to have their cherished recipes brewed commercially and sold nationally.  One of this year’s winners, Cesar Marron, recently did what only a handful of others have in the past: He went pro.  He brewed a grätzer... View Article

A Second Home for Heady Topper

A second brewery and a new regularly canned beer are in the works for Vermont’s The Alchemist Brewery. John and Jen Kimmich, owners of the Waterbury, VT, brewery, announced in January that they are planning to open a second brewery with a retail shop and tasting room attached—good news for lovers of their canned double... View Article

Brooklyn Brewery Partners with Culinary Institute

A new partnership between The Brooklyn Brewery and the Culinary Institute of America will bring a brewery to the CIA’s Hyde Park, NY, campus, where students can study beer and make their own brews. The seven-barrel brewhouse will be in the CIA’s student union and dining area. Initial brews, which include a lager and pilsner... View Article

Regulations on Spent Grain Could Have Big Implications for Brewers

Donating or selling spent grain—the grain left over after sugars and proteins have been extracted from it during the mash—to farmers for animal feed is a common practice in the brewing industry. However, under new proposed food safety regulations in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), monitoring the disposal of spent grain could mean costly... View Article

To Everything There is a Seasonal: Flagship Seasonal Beers

Pat Conway recalls the visit to the Great Lakes Brewing gift shop by an uber-fan late in 2012. “This one guy offered us $3,000 on the spot for 60 cases of Great Lakes Christmas Ale,” remembers Conway, co-founder of the Cleveland brewery. While the final purchase was scaled back some, the anecdote demonstrates the price... View Article

Heritage Breweries Included in New Definition of Craft Brewer

On March 3, the Brewers Association (BA) revised its definition of a craft brewer. The revised definition states: An American craft brewer is small, independent and traditional. • Small: Annual production of 6 million barrels of beer or less (about 3 percent of U.S. annual sales). Beer production is attributed to the rules of alternating... View Article

Pravda

Ninkasi Brewing Co. Eugene, OR A gold medal winner at the 2013 Great American Beer Festival, this beer has been renamed after the Slavic word for truth. ABV: 5.0 ABW: 3.98 COLOR: 4.3 BITTERNESS: 5 ORIGINAL GRAVITY: 1048 AVAILABLE: AK, BC, CA, ID, MT, OR, WA

Working Man’s Porter

Henniker Brewing Co. Henniker, NH Working Man’s Porter is brewed with English malts and hopped with Phoenix and Bramling Cross hops. ABV: 5.2 ABW: 4.14 COLOR: 23 BITTERNESS: 30 ORIGINAL GRAVITY: 1059 AVAILABLE: NH

Saison

Funkwerks Fort Collins, CO Funkwerks’ flagship Saison was awarded a gold medal at the 2012 Great American Beer Festival and a silver medal in 2011 for the French- and Belgian-Style Saison category. ABV: 6.8 ABW: 5.44 COLOR: 4 BITTERNESS: 21 ORIGINAL GRAVITY: 1055 AVAILABLE: AZ, CO, NE

Sour Brown

Thornbridge Brewery Bakewell, Derbyshire, United Kingdom Sour Brown is brewed with Styrian Golding hops and matured in Burgundy wine casks with rhubarb, morello cherries and raspberries. ABV: 7 ABW: 5.5 COLOR: 35.5 BITTERNESS: 22 ORIGINAL GRAVITY: 1060 AVAILABLE: UK

Little Red Cap

Grimm Brothers Brewhouse  Loveland, CO Little Red Cap is Grimm Brothers Brewhouse’s version of an altbier. Indigenous to Düsseldorf, altbiers are top-fermented, full of hops and with a winsome copper color. ABV: 6.3 ABW: 5.01 COLOR: 29 BITTERNESS: 29 ORIGINAL GRAVITY: 1052 AVAILABLE: CO, NE

Black

Brasserie de Bellevaux Malmedy, Belgium Brasserie de Bellevaux is located on an old farm 150 kilometers southeast of Brussels. Black is the result of co-owner Wil Schuwer’s desire to recreate a beer he tasted on a 1978 pub tour in the British city of York. ABV: 6.3 ABW: 5.01 COLOR: 42.7 BITTERNESS: 31 ORIGINAL GRAVITY:... View Article

Bomb!

Prairie Artisan Ales Tulsa, OK Bomb! is an imperial stout aged on espresso beans, chocolate, vanilla beans and ancho chile peppers. ABV: 14 ABW: 11.14 COLOR: NA BITTERNESS: NA ORIGINAL GRAVITY: NA AVAILABLE: AL, AK, AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MS, NV, NY, NC, ND,... View Article

Yeti Imperial Stout

Great Divide Brewing Co. Denver First brewed in 2003, Yeti has won two silvers medals and one bronze medal at the Great American Beer Festival. ABV: 9.5 ABW: 7.56 COLOR: 81 BITTERNESS: 75 ORIGINAL GRAVITY: 1098 AVAILABLE: AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MN, MO, NC, NE, NJ, NY,... View Article

Black Oak Nut Brown Ale

Black Oak Brewing Co. Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada Black Oak Nut Brown Ale is brewed with Canadian two-row, chocolate and crystal malts and toasted wheat. It is hopped with Northern Brewer, East Kent Goldings and Hallertau hops. ABV: 5 ABW: 3.98 COLOR: NA BITTERNESS: NA ORIGINAL GRAVITY: 1049 AVAILABLE: ON

Tinder Rauchbier

Uinta Brewing Co. Salt Lake City Tinder is a German-style rauchbier brewed with beechwood-smoked malt. Uinta brewed 180 barrels of this limited-release beer. ABV: 6.5 ABW: 5.17 COLOR: 18 BITTERNESS: 28 ORIGINAL GRAVITY: 16.4 AVAILABLE: AZ,CA, CO, DC, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, MA, MD, ME, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA,... View Article

Tough Love

Crux Fermentation Project Bend, OR Tough Love is an imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels for nine months. ABV: 11.5 ABW: 9.2 COLOR: 35 BITTERNESS: 70 ORIGINAL GRAVITY: 1096 AVAILABLE: OR, WA

Drafty Kilt Scotch Ale

Monday Night Brewing Atlanta This Scotch ale is brewed with cherrywood smoked malt, chocolate malt and roasted barley. It is hopped with Columbus and Willamette hops. It won bronze in the Scotch Ale category at the 2014 World Beer Cup. ABV: 7.2 ABW: 5.73 COLOR: 23 BITTERNESS: 26 ORIGINAL GRAVITY: NA AVAILABLE: GA

Salted Caramel Stout

Breakside Brewery Portland, OR A collaboration with Salt & Straw Ice Cream, Salted Caramel Stout is brewed with two-row, chocolate, roasted barley, flaked barley and CaraMunich malts. It is hopped with Newport hops. As one of the brewery’s most popular draft seasonal brews, it is now available in bottles. ABV: 6.7 ABW: 5.33 COLOR: NA... View Article

Hubertus Bock

Hacker-Pschorr  Munich, Germany Hubertus Bock is a member of the Maibock family—a style most famous in southern Germany that is brewed to celebrate the arrival of spring. The beer is named after Saint Hubertus, the patron saint of hunters. ABV: 6.8 ABW: 5.41 COLOR: NA BITTERNESS: 20 ORIGINAL GRAVITY: NA AVAILABLE: AK, AL, AZ, CA,... View Article

Jade IPA

Foothills Brewing Winston-Salem, NC Jade IPA includes Citra, Chinook and its namesake Jade hops. Foothills debuted the beer on draft in 2011 and started bottling Jade IPA this January. ABV: 7.4 ABW: 5.9 COLOR: 4.6 BITTERNESS: 86 ORIGINAL GRAVITY: 1063 AVAILABLE: NC, SC, TN, VA

Černé Pivo

Notch Brewing Co. Ipswich, MA Černé Pivo is Czech for Black Beer. It is brewed with a combination of Vienna, Munich, CaraBohemian and Carafa malts and a touch of Saaz hops. It is fermented with a house lager yeast. ABV: 4 ABW: 3.2 COLOR: 28 BITTERNESS: NA ORIGINAL GRAVITY: 1044 AVAILABLE: MA, ME Read an interview... View Article