Another famous legacy craft beer brand will no longer fit under the Brewers Association definition of a craft brewer, a category description that feels less and less relevant, but that… Read More

Your CBB team chose not to attend the CBC this year, so sorry for the lack of live coverage (this preview covers all of the cool new stuff we now… Read More

Bell’s Brewery’s Raise a Wing event is back for 2021. This year, the independent craft brewery has teamed up with Meals on Wheels America to give back, raise awareness for… Read More

Bell’s Brewery has a rich history. Founder Larry Bell opened his homebrew supply store, a precursor to the brewery, on Burdick St. in downtown Kalamazoo in 1983 under the name… 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

It was an incredible 10-year effort, but beer makers in the Bay State are feeling a little more freedom in 2021. Massachusetts lawmakers voted at the end of 2020 to… Read More

In full bloom, hopyards are works of art. Elaborate trellis systems create these wild green hallways woven of stems, leaves and cones. Imagine farm hands creating these amazing tapestries by… Read More

Imagine a stretch of highway connecting Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids returned to forest. That is roughly 501 acres worth of pavement or about 380 football fields. It’s also the environmental… Read More

The hop harvest. It’s easily one of the most wonderful times of the year. It’s been a while since I visited the Pacific Northwest to soak up the autumnal splendor… Read More

Meet Megan Kaiser in the video above, environmental engineer at Bell’s Brewery. She’s going to talk us through one of Bell’s coolest process innovations — the bio-energy building called The… Read More