When Calicraft launched in Walnut Creek, Calif., in 2012, it asked two key questions. Question No. 1: “What if beer was created in California?” Considering the influence of California breweries… Read More

Crunchy kernels of barley tumble from Joel Williamson’s hands as he scoops them up, offering a taste. “This is a first: The inaugural batch of Lyon malt,” says Williamson, head… Read More

Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association, during a press conference at the Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville, emphasized this as an area of improvement for some of the industry’s… Read More

Hop Products Australia sent over its harvest report which includes assumed yields for independent Australian hop growers. Here are the results and some trends analysis. In Tasmania, the season started… Read More

In response to a growing need for used whiskey barrels by craft beer producers, St. Cloud-based Innovative Oak recently announced Spiritized Spirals, a new oak alternative that uses whiskey barrels… Read More

This might end up being a let down if you, like me, originally pictured a yeast strain emerging from the burly chest hairs (or bones?) of a Civil War hero… Read More

Barley remains an important feed grain, but recent years have seen a much higher portion of the crop going for malting. Coinciding with the rise of malting barley as the… Read More

The plastic in our water is one of those global, we’re-all-gonna-die Armageddon issues that pops up, makes me feel sick and then disappears again after I click on a gif… Read More

Getting back home after the Craft Brewers Conference, someone will ask, “so, what was the best beer you had?” and I always draw a blank. The CBC is a whirlwind… Read More

At the Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville, after years of intensive R&D, John I. Haas Inc. and the Barth-Haas Group announced that its innovative bittering hop product FLEX is now… Read More