All About Beer Magazine November 2015 Issue

Quality Importance

‘Sweet And Fruity’ Beverages Flood Market

When Different Passions and Paths Combine

Finding Great Beer Somewhere in Middle America

Folks who live on the coasts often joke of “fly-over country,” the swath of land that actually makes up the majority of this great nation. From 37,000 feet, the plains are a patchwork quilt of farms and rivers. This should not be ignored and should be examined from the ground, especially Omaha, Nebraska’s largest city.... View Article

Fueled By Beer

New Zealand’s DB Breweries has found a resourceful use for its yeast waste by turning it into “brewtroleum” biofuel. The brewery teamed up with Gull Petroleum to create the fuel, which produces less greenhouse gas than petroleum. It is made by distilling the yeast, creating ethanol. Then 90 percent premium gasoline is added to 10... View Article

Homebrewing Pioneer Byron Burch Dies

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

New Barley Variety In Development

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

Beer At The Top Of The World

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

More Taps Than Days In A Year

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

Breweries Sell Shares, Join Forces, Expand

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

Pizza Beer Is No Joke

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

A Night at the Brewery

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

Altbier: A Nod to Heritage

In recent years, some esoteric top-fermented North German beer styles have joined the beer renaissance party. Leipziger gose and Berliner weisse, imported and microbrewed, are now familiar offerings. Kölsch is mainstream. Another, the Düsseldorf-style altbier, remains elusive and enigmatic. In Düsseldorf, the coppery, crisp and malty beer is the undisputed king. Rhenish cousin to Kölsch,... View Article

Pull Up A Stool With Nico Freccia and Shaun O’Sullivan

Fifteen years after founding 21st Amendment Brewery in San Francisco and seven years after they started brewing under contract in Cold Spring, Minnesota, Nico Freccia and Shaun O’Sullivan opened a production brewery this June in San Leandro, California. The 150,000-square-foot facility—where Kellogg’s formerly produced Pop-Tarts, Frosted Flakes and Eggo waffles—is now home to a 100-barrel... View Article

Remembering Fred Eckhardt, Dean of American Beer Writing

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

Autumn Traditions

If you notice that pumpkin beer appears on shelves a bit earlier each year, it’s because there’s no seasonal creep like everyone’s favorite spiced beer that vaguely coincides with the creepiest of holidays—Halloween. I say everyone’s because studies by the Brewers Association show that pumpkin beers are far and away the most popular of all... View Article

Italian Monastery Brewery Receives Trappist Designation

The International Trappist Association has granted Rome’s Tre Fontane Abbey the right to use the Authentic Trappist Product trademark on its beer, making it the 11th Trappist brewery in the world. The brewery’s first designated Trappist beer is an 8.5% tripel brewed with eucalyptus called Three Fountains Tripel. It is sold only at the Tre... View Article

Weyerbacher Brewing Co. Tarte Nouveau

Tarte Nouveau is a Lactobacillus kettle-soured tart beer with a lemony-citric fruit sharpness and no hop bitterness. ABV: 3.9% Brewed in: EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA Where to Find This Beer: CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NE, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SC, VA, WI