What, precisely, is a hopback, and is it identical to a whirlpool? For this explanation we turn to Miles Jenner, the longtime Harvey’s brewer, who describes how the vessel works and why it was once a mainstay among traditional British breweries.
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I enjoyed a lot of wonderful beer in my visit to Oklahoma, but the IPAs Jake Keyes is making at Oklahoma City’s Skydance really stood out.
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On a recent post, a commenter wrote, “Craft beer has very few stories left to tell.” It echoed a theme in a recent newsletter from Boak and Bailey. But is beer really played out? Hardly.
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Whether or not you have been to Oklahoma or ever plan to go, it’s worth taking an ethnographic look at a young and developing beer scene that contains its own character and lessons. You’re doing fine, Oklahoma!
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An interesting data point from a company that tracks on-premise alcohol sales. In the months since the Bud Light fiasco, an unexpected beneficiary has entered the frame.
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Before hazy IPAs (TM) came along, many IPAs in the Northwest were pretty hazy. That’s no longer the case.
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Anchor was never just a brewery. The story of Fritz Maytag saving a brewery became a founding myth for American craft beer. Anchor was at once the past and the future, the proof that small breweries could exist outside an ecosystem of commodity canned lagers.
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Skagit Valley Malting may be gone, but a new start-up from across the mountains gives hope to craft malt.
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Twitter’s not-quite-death has sparked many imitators, but their failure to scale illustrates the challenge with social media platforms. They don’t work unless everyone is on them. And right now, we don’t want to be where everyone else is. So what comes next?
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Global breweries can be optimized to make consistently good beer, but it’s rarely the most interesting. For the fierce defenders of tradition or restless experimenters, tinkerers making obscure styles on bespoke systems, or regional powers whose flagships have become national classics, you have to turn to the independents.
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