John Holl, a seasoned journalist and current editor of All About Beer, compiled dozens of mouthwatering recipes from across the country to demonstrate the versatility and intense pleasure of beer as the ideal complement to food.
The hand-drawn diagram of a futuristic weapon may look inconsequential at first. But it all goes back to Backpocket brewer Jacob Simmons’ PhD in microbiology. Each Lab Series label offers a glimpse into the brewery’s beer lab with each recipe printed right on the label.
The brewer behind Sam Adams Black Lager, Angry Orchard and Utopias kept an eye on the beer scene in his home state of Texas, and in early 2012 he left Boston Beer Co. to help launch Revolver Brewing near Dallas.
The label for GhostRider IPA is the second collaboration for Wasatch brewer Adam Curfew and artist Stephen Kesler, who’ve been friends since high school.
In The Complete Beer Course, each category of beer (lagers, Wheats, Abbey-style Ales, et al) gets clever treatment as a “course,” as author Joshua Bernstein guides the reader through brewing history and flavor profiles.
Tod Mott started as an all-grain homebrewer in the late ’80s; after an internship at Catamount, he landed a gig with Harpoon and then joined Portsmouth Brewery. Now Mott and his wife are opening Tributary Brewing Co., in Maine.
Even though small-batch beer holds only about 1 percent by volume of today’s German beer market, the legacy of handmade beer has endured years of macrobrewery consolidation and is finally coming out on the other side.
Together with brewery owners Kristen and Jeremy Kozik, designer Josh Emrich did research in the public library to find imagery from the Aztec and Mayan cultures, the inspiration for this beer.
Meredith Heil, who’s 27 and lives in Brooklyn, is calling for the craft beer industry to reevaluate its attitude toward women and members of the LGBTQ community.
Church of The Atom is a nanobrewery in Sweden’s beer hub of Gothenburg that derives its name from a post-apocalyptic video game that co-founders Kristian Hallberg and Marcus Ekdahl were both into when they decided to launch CoTA.
This film takes the viewer into the cold storage and barrel rooms of a slew of breweries, large and small, across the country, from financial struggles at Denver’s Black Shirt Brewing to the overnight success of Indeed Brewing in Minneapolis.
Since 1986, Boston has hosted only three production breweries. If the Tetreaults’ experience with Trillium is any indication, the brewery landscape of Boston proper won’t be changing any time soon.
When Utah-based Epic Brewing signed a lease on a warehouse in Denver’s River North arts district, they were eager to integrate themselves into the community. Which is why David Cole, co-founder of Epic, went on the hunt for the artist behind the landmark mural a block from their new brewery.
Annie Johnson, who lives in Sacramento, Calif., became the first woman in 30 years to be named Homebrewer of the Year by the American Homebrewers Association. Her Lite American Lager swept 25 categories at the 2013 National Homebrewers Conference.
Spiteful, a small brewery in Chicago, is run by a couple of really nice guys who really hate certain things. Among the triggers of their wrath have been trouble-making pigeons, a guy named Colin and texting pedestrians.
A story of entrepreneurial spirit, this irreverent narrative is told in the voice of Tony Magee, founder of Lagunitas Brewing and one of craft beer’s most vibrant personalities.
After Hurricane Irene demolished The Alchemist brewpub in 2011, John Kimmich and his wife, Jen, have focused solely on tweaking Heady Topper at their production brewery, where they’re at capacity brewing 9,000 barrels a year—all of which is sold within a 30-mile radius.
Chris Ray and his brother Phil parted ways with their former careers and opened Center of the Universe in November 2012. Knowing that a beer means more to consumers if it comes with a great story, they wanted to put theirs right on the can: Chris was a Major League Baseball pitcher and Phil was a NASA engineer.
In the narrative, Jenny Shank, a self-reported non-beer geek, gives craft brewers a gentle (and hilarious) ribbing … so we decided to ask her what was up with that.
At London’s Partizan Brewing, each label starts with the same idea—characters and objects shaping letters that spell the name of the beer, a technique that’s been part of artist Alec Doherty’s work for a while.
