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
There is really no way to know for sure, but Deb Carey, cofounder of the New Glarus Brewing Co., thinks her brewery’s launch nearly 25 years ago was the fastest microbrewery startup ever. She and her husband, Dan Carey, first talked about launching a brewery in January 1993. They drew a 30-mile circumference around Madison,... 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
In SpindleTap Brewery’s taproom in northeast Houston, drinkers enjoy beers like Hop Gusher IPA or Honey Hole ESB while kids play foosball. But just hidden from their view is an enormous warehouse housing one of Houston’s biggest donation drives for Hurricane Harvey relief. The brewery’s kegs and cans are barely visible among a sea of... 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
The name of the beer is Toast. And like the kvasses that have recently emerged stateside, Toast drives home the epigram of “liquid bread” by using the starchy sugars from bread to fuel beer fermentation. “What’s different about kvass versus what we’re doing with Toast is that we’re seeing bread as something that has the... View Article
In 1993, Lagunitas was just starting up, and breweries as varied as Stone, Victory, Dogfish Head, and Smuttynose did not exist as commercial concerns. In 1993, there was no Brewers Association, never mind a definition from that group defining a craft brewer or a craft beer. In 1993, brewpubs and India pale ales were still... View Article
