We all know that IPAs are king today in the craft beer marketplace. This fact urged a long-time craft beer powerhouse, Sam Adams, to develop its own IPA or risk… Read More

We like the cut of Virginia Senator Bill Stanley’s jib. He serves the great people of Southside and Southwest Virginia in the 20th Senatorial District, but he also serves all… Read More

Around 75 percent of the barley grown in the United States is produced in Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and Washington. It’s an essential brewing commodity, and over the last… Read More

Each year, the American Malting Barley Association (AMBA) releases its list of recommended malting barley varieties to U.S. growers. AMBA is a nonprofit trade association of 80 brewing, distilling and… Read More

2017 is looking a little brighter: Hopslam double IPA from Michigan’s Bell’s Brewery is back out (for a limited time). Six different hop varietals are added to its potent brew… Read More

It hasn’t been easy for suppliers to keep up with craft beer’s skyward trajectory. Ingredients like hops and malt specifically are reaching precarious levels of demand. This 2016 hops report… Read More

Heineken H41 Bottle image buildup from additive studios on Vimeo. Variety has never been an enormous part of the Heineken philosophy. Consistency, tradition, purity — these make beer companies great.… Read More

We know Jim Koch isn’t a huge fan of all these new-fangled craft beer trends, but when you own 1 percent of the beer market, and sales start to slip,… Read More

If you’re into Caribbean voodoo like we are, you’re a fan of Azacca — he’s a Haitian god of agriculture. He’s a simple, gentle farmer who watches the fields and… Read More

CBB visited the hop harvest for the first time in 2016. It was, well, pretty rad — holding a fist full of fresh cones in our hands, watching wet hop… Read More