Valter Loverier is an understated brewer from Marentino, Italy, in the rolling wine country of Piedmont. He is one of the most interesting brewers I've encountered in my travels, and was the first to introduce me to the idea of "inoculation via fruit" (he uses wine grapes, of course).
Read MoreBill Coors was an important and unusually successful corporate titan; he was also a plutocrat who sought absolute control over his workers and whose toxic racial politics sparked decades-long boycotts.
Read MoreRogue’s Brett Joyce has decided to step down as president from the brewery his father founded. It suggests a pivot happening in Newport, and that caused me to wonder. There are five top-50 breweries in Oregon right now. What are they doing in this tightening market?
Read MoreAll About Beer magazine was founded in 1979 and documented the entire history of craft brewing in America. Sadly, it looks like it will never reach its 40th anniversary.
Read MoreA micro-memoir and record-straightener.
Read MoreCask ale is not just the most important symbol of British brewing, it’s also one of the hardest to make beers, the most hand-crafted of beers, and, when it’s made and served properly, the best beers on the planet. Why does no one see this?
Read MoreCraft Brew Alliance announced today that it was acquiring three smaller breweries with which it already had relationships. This is an example of the gravitational pull small connections between breweries can have. And CBA’s history is rife with them.
Read MoreThe success of beers like Firestone Walker 805, Dogfish Head SeaQuench, and Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin seem to come out of nowhere. But success is not entirely random. It comes to breweries that have put the time in beforehand.
Read MoreIt’s impossible to keep up with all the new breweries in Portland, but put West Coast Grocery on your short list. It’s got a great location, a great vibe, (an admittedly curious name), but most importantly, really fine beer.
Read MoreThe Oregon Beer Awards has announced the winners of the best fresh hop beers in Oregon. The judging took place on Saturday, so there’s still plenty of time to track these down and try them yourself.
Read MoreThis is where you can find a downloadable, sharable pdf copy of the brewer compensation survey that appeared on this site in three posts over the past month. So please download it and share it!
Read MoreA dalliance with a particularly aggressive IPA helped the scales fall from my eyes. Why am I drinking all these kids-drink IPAs?
Read MoreBen Edmunds is the founding head brewer at Breakside and now oversees one of the best teams in the state. This vignette comes from an interview I did with Ben for *The Secrets of Master Brewers,* in which his techniques were featured on the chapter on American IPAs.
Read MoreIn the final post on brewer compensation, I quote extensively from the comments left on the survey. There were over 300 of them, and many were very carefully-considered and insightful. The numbers only tell a part of the story; these comments breathe life into it.
Read MoreThe Great American Beer Festival awards were announced earlier today—306 medals in all. Here’s a condensed summary of the trends and winners.
Read MoreThe North American Guild of Beer Writers awards we’re announced today. This blog done good!
Read MoreIn these times of division, can’t we all just get along—over a pint, anyway?
Read MoreA man goes out of town. A man comes back with little to show for himself except these nice links.
Read MoreToday we revisit a truth understood from Portland to Prague: IPA means American.
Read MoreWho’s making the best beer ads right now? Not the juggernauts of ABI or Heineken; they’re being made by a two-person creative team at a little brewery in Portland. They put Dilly Dilly to shame.
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