Featured · Ingredients & Supplies
When Calicraft launched in Walnut Creek, Calif., in 2012, it asked two key questions. Question No. 1: “What if beer was created in California?” Considering the influence of California breweries … Read More
Featured · Ingredients & Supplies
Getting back home after the Craft Brewers Conference, someone will ask, “so, what was the best beer you had?” and I always draw a blank. The CBC is a whirlwind … Read More
Yeast. Nature’s lovable microscopic fungus, and a brewer’s favorite microorganism. Via the fermentation process, strains of these single-celled superstars convert carbohydrates to carbon dioxide (used in baking) and more importantly … Read More
Getting the most from your culture is a multi-stepped endeavor. One of the most import steps (let’s call it step No. 2) is understanding when to harvest and then properly … Read More
At its June 6 meeting, the American Malting Barley Association (AMBA) Board of Directors added Puffin to the recommended list of malting barley varieties. Puffin, a winter two-row, was released … Read More
Crunchy kernels of barley tumble from Joel Williamson’s hands as he scoops them up, offering a taste. “This is a first: The inaugural batch of Lyon malt,” says Williamson, head … Read More
Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association, during a press conference at the Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville, emphasized this as an area of improvement for some of the industry’s … Read More
Hop Products Australia sent over its harvest report which includes assumed yields for independent Australian hop growers. Here are the results and some trends analysis. In Tasmania, the season started … Read More
In response to a growing need for used whiskey barrels by craft beer producers, St. Cloud-based Innovative Oak recently announced Spiritized Spirals, a new oak alternative that uses whiskey barrels … Read More
This might end up being a let down if you, like me, originally pictured a yeast strain emerging from the burly chest hairs (or bones?) of a Civil War hero … Read More
Barley remains an important feed grain, but recent years have seen a much higher portion of the crop going for malting. Coinciding with the rise of malting barley as the … Read More
The plastic in our water is one of those global, we’re-all-gonna-die Armageddon issues that pops up, makes me feel sick and then disappears again after I click on a gif … Read More
At the Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville, after years of intensive R&D, John I. Haas Inc. and the Barth-Haas Group announced that its innovative bittering hop product FLEX is now available … Read More
If you are at the Craft Brewers Conference this week (and if you’re not, what’s up? Did you get lost?) be sure to stop by the Crosby Hop Farm booth (2625) … Read More
The age-old occupation of growing the ancient grain of barley (and then malting it) continues to evolve. Researchers are currently developing new flavored barley varieties to give beer new taste … Read More
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