Over half the existing breweries—more than 4,000—were founded in the past five years. We have absolutely no experience of what happens when four thousand breweries immediately become “old school” before our eyes.
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Lompoc Brewing, founded 23 years ago, becomes the fifth Portland brewery in recent months to announce it’s shutting down permanently. Is the end nigh, or is this the new normal?
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In separate incidents this week, Founders and Lagunitas engaged in behavior that boggles the mind. And they’re the kind of things one can’t imagine them doing if they were still corner breweries in Grand Rapids and Petaluma.
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Apple juice concentrate is commonly used in mass market ciders. It’s basically a natural product, though a highly processed one, but using it requires a series of compromises discerning drinkers may not love. Here’s a description of the process.
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Did AB InBev divulge more than intended in a lawsuit seeking to keep trade secrets secret?
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For the first twenty years of the craft brewing era, Americans looked to Europe. And now, however awkward it may seem, Europeans are looking back at us.
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A lot of changes announced in the beer industry this week. Boulder Beer is scaling back, and Legacy Breweries—Ninkasi’s new parent company—has made its first two acquisitions in Porltand’s Laurelwood and Colorado’s Aspen breweries.
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The Beer Sherpa recommends a beer from each stop on his grand European odyssey.
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Lithuania has one of the most interesting and unusual brewing traditions in the world, and should be on your short list for foreign travel. Here’s a primer.
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The beer writers guild handed out its annual awards yesterday, and there’s a lot to celebrate.
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Polish brewing is vibrant and growing, led by smaller, American-style breweries. But I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for them to start making Poland’s quirky, ancient style of grodziskie anytime soon.
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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.
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A Belgian cafe is like no drinking experience on earth.
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Brouwerij 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.
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The modern beer hunter does not find himself on country roads, but near the forgotten industrial fringes of a city, far from tourists.
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The 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.
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A photographic peek inside Manchester’s JW Lees, now in it’s 193rd year.
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The 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?
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Rare 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.
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A photographic peek inside one of Britain’s iconic cask ale breweries.
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