Fruited beers may not have centuries’ worth of tradition behind them, but they’re one of the most popular trends in craft brewing today. The rise of fruit purees, in particular,… Read More

Hop Products Australia (HPA) have completed their 2021 hop harvest. They picked 675 hectares that resulted in 1,526 metric tonnes of hops. This was a 44 hectare (6.9%) increase and… Read More

Michigan is in the perfect parallel for making great hops. Here’s how John Mallett, vice president of operations at Bell’s Brewery, which grows two acres of hops next to its… Read More

Today Mainstem Malt announced the launch of Mainstem For All, a crowdfunded effort to engage a growing diversity of the company’s stakeholders as shareholders, in support of their innovative mission… Read More

Briess has an excellent beer blog. Always has. Just watch Bob Hansen paint using malt extract already. That’s quality content. Journey the Briess website and there’s always great recipes, there’s… Read More

Food21 of Pennsylvania wants to demonstrate the power of connecting local farms’ productive capacity to one of the fastest growing industries in the region – craft brewing. Last year it… Read More

RipeLocker, a leader in extending the post-harvest life of perishables, announced late last year that its technology that can extend the life of fresh hops by six weeks. Tests were… Read More

Brewers commonly repitch yeast to ferment batch after batch to save money and coax out the complex flavors and higher flocculation rates that Saccharomyces yeast can develop over multiple generations,… Read More

Ahh…the mystery of the Blue Lake Process. How exactly are whole cone hops frozen and shipped to breweries to help create (among other styles) fresh hop beers? “It’s a bit… Read More

With the rise of alternative beer categories like hard seltzer, is the IPA fervor beginning to fade? According to Drizly’s BevAlc Insights IPA Forecast for 2021, it definitely is not,… Read More