Celebrate Oregon Beer is looking for some volunteers — and all you have to do is visit breweries to help. What could be easier? We’re also looking for an Oregon-based podcaster.
Read MoreExactly ten years ago, I predicted where beer would be in 2026. Well, how did I do?
Read MoreWhere naming is concerned, meeting customers where they are seems like sensible advice. Describing your beer as a black lager will appeal to more people than “schwarzbier” would. There are limits to this advice, however.
Read MoreWhat is the main driver of the way a base malt tastes, the barley variety or the malting process? In a long-overdue part two on my series on malting, we learn the answer.
Read MoreI am very excited to announce the launch of a new podcast: “One Iconic Beer.” It will land in your favorite email service on Monday, and in the meantime, here’s an introduction about what it’s about.
Read MoreA quote from a founding-era craft brewer about why he started his brewery got me thinking. Maybe less romance would be a helpful way to think about it.
Read MoreIn the final post celebrating this blog’s 20th anniversary, I revel in the weirdest stories, happenings, and trends of the past two decades. There were a lot of them!
Read MoreBrewDog has been sold, and for the astounding, low, low price of $40 million. Once again, Tilray was the buyer. Increasingly beer industry’s buyer of last resort, the erstwhile cannabis company now owns 15 breweries, most bought on the cheap.
Read MoreThis blog turns 20 years old today—almost old enough to drink legally! I reflect on what an immense presence it has had in my life.
Read MoreOn Thursday, I’ll be telling the very interesting story about American beer culture in a webinar for WSET. It’s a multigenerational epic and describes the birth of a new national brewing tradition—the first we’ve seen in nearly 200 years. Details herein.
Read MoreCollectives aren’t a new thing in the beer industry, but they usually involve larger breweries. Two newly-born collectives show how it might be even more valuable for smaller players.
Read MoreIn the first celebratory post of my 20 years blogging, I offer a list of the 17 most transformational developments in beer in the past two decades. Which items made the list: Glitter beer? Brut IPA? The vortex bottle? I offer the definitive list.
Read MoreCzech breweries understand that we drink not just with our tongues and noses, but our eyes, too. They prize presentation, and three interlocking elements make their beers the prettiest in the world.
Read MoreA note on the dark lagers of Czechia.
Read MoreOver the past year, pFriem Family Brewers and Rahr Malting have been working on a pilsner malt specifically suited for a brewery making full-flavored lagers and lean IPAs. It could serve as a model for craft breweries and maltsters going forward.
Read MoreRecent research and analysis reveals the way young adults are using AI to avoid scary social encounters. What effect is this going to have on pubs?
Read MoreToday, grassroots organizers have called for a national strike in the US, asking businesses to close, and people to stay home from school or work. Breweries are using the event to speak out, with surprising force and transparency.
Read MoreBrewery acquisitions rarely warrant celebration. But the news that Schneider, the famous Bavarian weissbier brewery, had acquired a nearby monastery brewery with a thousand-year brewing lineage, was certainly one of them
Read MoreColumbia Distributing announced it has acquired Portland’s Point Blank, a distributor founded in 2003 to serve the metro area’s craft breweries.
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