John Holl

March 22, 2013 | What's Brewing

The Shtick Gets Its Own Home

Jeremy Cowan, the owner of Shmaltz Brewing Company, is not known for being low key. At presentations and events he’s the loudest voice in the room, with a friendly Step Right Up carnival bark, pushing his line of HE’BREW and ...

March 1, 2013 | Culture

Triple Threats

Stand for just a moment with your back to the large white event tent and soak in the scene. Directly in front of you is the winery and its tasting room. To your left is the distillery, where aging barrels ...

July 30, 2012 | What's Brewing

The Return of New Albion: America’s First Craft Brewery Gets a Revival

It was early on a recent July morning and the humidity hung heavy when the man who invented the microbrewery arrived at the Samuel Adams pilot brewery. He squinted his eyes against the sun and briefly looked up at the ...

November 1, 2011 | Brewing Chemistry

The Spark of Beer

Unless it asserts itself by, say, fizzing up your nose or aggressively dancing on your tongue, it can be easy to forget about carbonation in beer. Sure, when light filters through a glass and highlights the tiny bubbles as they ...

September 5, 2011 | History

Gemütlichkeit

Just out of the subway and trudging through freshly fallen snow, my sights were set on Radegast Hall and Biergarten in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. Fighting against a bracing wind, I focused on what I thought lay ahead of me: liters ...

September 1, 2011 | History

Here and Gone: The Pop-up Beer Garden

Following the lead of pop-up restaurants, where a dining experience appears in a place it had not previously stood and is gone before you can make reservations for a return visit, a Los Angeles group has introduced the pop-up beer ...