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What do you bring to brewing from your early background in history and philosophy? That’s a great question, and one I’ve thought about a lot, funnily enough. My approach to brewing is…almost like a “liberal arts” approach. I like to ...

I hope the Charles Schulz estate got a case of The Great Pumpkin Imperial Pumpkin Ale, though it’s hardly appropriate for Linus....

This beer pours copper in the glass, with a light ecru head....

In 1976, an ex-Navy man named Jack McAuliffe founded America’s first modern microbrewery, New Albion Brewing Co. in Sonoma, CA. In an era when American brewing was dominated by a few large facilities brewing versions of light lager, McAuliffe hand-built ...

What do you hope your fans will take away from your Moveable Yeast project? The primary goal of the series was to demonstrate to beer lovers―who may not be as familiar with yeast as, say, homebrewers would be―how large an ...

Tell me about AC Golden. GK: We’re owned by MillerCoors. Pete Coors took a look at how new products like Blue Moon were being developed for the pipeline, and noticed that we weren’t doing many. Largely, what the big brewers ...

The growing number of entries to sour beer categories 
suggests that brewers are onto something new. 
But the techniques they’re using, and the “bugs” they’re 
welcoming into their beers, have a long history....

You’ve won Large Brewpub of the Year twice, and you have won Alpha King twice. So what I want to know is, what’s the story with the plaid pants? That’s a good one. I like that question, right off. In ...

What was the status of craft brewing when you arrived in the U.S.? Back in 1986, there were about 50 breweries, period, including all the big guys. I came here in June of ’86 to help David Geary build Geary ...