Congress sent the President a 2017 fiscal year budget that he signed on May 5. Sometimes called an Omnibus because it contains a large collection of appropriation bills, this one… Read More

Farming is already hard, physical, time-consuming work, and then the weather can just throw all that work to the wind. Extreme weather events seem to be the norm these days,… Read More

Rogue Farms holds a special place in our collective beer-filled hearts. We’ve made multiple trips out to the Independence, Oregon, farmstead to learn about the science and culture of growing… Read More

Gather round: The Brewers Association just released its Beer Style Guidelines for 2017. As always, these guidelines, assembled annually by the BA, will serve as a model resource for brewers… Read More

The interest in growing malting barley has expanded across the United States in the last several years and necessitated the need for additional crop research. This research ranges from trials… Read More

When the now familiar merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller first popped up in September 2015, it all felt too large of a scale to comprehend. How would these global… Read More

Tropical fruits (pineapple, blood orange, grapefruit, tangerine, mango, peach and ever onward) have been growing on beer drinkers. Craft breweries have responded — Ballast Point’s Grapefruit Sculpin, New Belgium’s Citradelic… Read More

In an unprecedented growth rate of U.S. hop acreage, hops continue to be on the rise in the United States and across the globe as consumer tastes and demand for… Read More

When we saw strange white things falling from the sky in early December 2016, we knew we were in for an unusual winter. It had been five years since we… Read More

Ambient Water, a leading provider of atmospheric water generation systems for extracting water from humidity in the air, recently announced an agreement to supply three craft breweries with water produced… Read More