Few countries have extant brewing traditions as old as Austria’s, or contain the fixtures of historic brewing countries. It’s also one of only three countries where the standard mass market lager is equivalent in quality and flavor to so-called craft beers elsewhere.
Read MoreA Belgian cafe is like no drinking experience on earth.
Read MoreBrouwerij Roman near Oudenaarde isn’t one of Belgium’s most-famous, but it may be the most beautiful. Oh, Roman also inadvertently created something very like brut IPA. Here’s a peek inside.
Read MoreThe modern beer hunter does not find himself on country roads, but near the forgotten industrial fringes of a city, far from tourists.
Read MoreThe entire beer world is in flux, and with each new brewery—especially those in traditional, beer-brewing countries, things become simultaneously clearer and more confusing.
Read MoreA photographic peek inside Manchester’s JW Lees, now in it’s 193rd year.
Read MoreThe state of cask is not good—and hasn’t been for decades. Craft brewing was originally seen as the latest threat, but does it offer the means to salvation?
Read MoreRare is a place where the pub, not the brewery, is the soul of a company. Manchester’s Marble Arch is one of them. Oh, they happen to make one of the best cask ales I’ve ever tasted, as well.
Read MoreA photographic peek inside one of Britain’s iconic cask ale breweries.
Read MoreLondon’s extremely expensive real estate creates a substantial barrier for new brewery start-ups, but about a fifth of them have found a curious workaround.
Read MoreDay one in London and I’ve already made a discovery. Combine New World hops and hopping techniques along with old-world bitter ale and something remarkable results.
Read MoreWhen Abram Goldman-Armstrong founded his cidery, Cider Riot!, he thought he’d be attending to fermentations and crop reports. After an attack on patrons at his pubs by right-wing extremists, he’s had to think about bear spray and gas masks.
Read MoreIn four days I’ll be boarding a plane for London, followed by a month of European travel. Here’s an overview, along with questions and requests for you.
Read MoreThere is a place you can go see monks making and serving beer in the shadow of their hilltop abbey, all while gazing at hop fields from a sun-washed tasting room. And it’s right here in Oregon.
Read MoreIn 2015 I attended the Craft Brewers Conference and listened to a report on the expected growth in the industry. Guess how that turned out?
Read MoreNext year the oldest millennials turn 40 and the youngest will be in their mid-20s. It’s time to quit thinking of them as kids.
Read MoreIn recent years, as it has snapped up small east coast breweries, developed a non-beer division, and streamlined properties, Craft Brew Alliance has resembled the company it courted. But today, we learned AB InBev would not complete a long-anticipated buyout.
Read MoreTwo days ago, a property firm in Hong Kong, CK Asset Holdings, announced the purchase of the UK’s largest maker of traditional cask ales. It must be a statement of our times, but the news created such a small stir I didn’t even hear about it until yesterday afternoon.
Read MoreA friendly competition pitting pilsner-brewers from Oregon and Washington made for a most tasty weekend.
Read MoreThe humble pale ale, the style that built American craft brewing, had been the very model of constancy for 35 years. That era has passed—but what comes next?
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