Matt Van Wyk has been brewing for nearly two decades, and always for someone else’s company. Last year he became one of three partners at Alesong Brewing & Blending in Eugene, Oregon. In a recent conversation on “After Two Beers,” a podcast with All About Beer Magazine editor John Holl, Van Wyk talked about the... View Article
150 Years of Canadian Beer Labels By Lawrence C. Sherk $29.95, TouchWood Editions A coffee-table-worthy picture book that contains the collection of a serious breweriana collector. It starts in the late 1870s with two labels—mild and strong—from the William Dow and Co. brewery in Montreal. Largely text-heavy and simple in design, it does feature crossed... View Article
Brew Your Own Big Book of Homebrewing By Brew Your Own Magazine $21.99, Voyageur Press By the time this book gets to the actual recipes, you’ve already read more than 140 comprehensive pages that lay a solid foundation for how to make beer. From the pages and people behind the country’s foremost homebrewing magazine comes... View Article
Craft Obsession: The Social Rhetorics of Beer By Jeff Rice $40, Southern Illinois University Press The digital space has become the global tavern where people of all stripes can gather and talk about issues important to them. In the case of this book by the Martha B. Reynolds Professor and chair of department of writing,... View Article
Raleigh Brewing Co. and 75+ additional breweries will pour at World Beer Festival Raleigh, held Saturday, April 1 at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds. Click here for tickets. Raleigh Brewing Co. held a huge anniversary party earlier this month, drawing thousands to the building that’s been home to the brewery for the past four years. But that building’s... View Article
Oak & Dagger Public House and 75+ additional breweries will pour at World Beer Festival Raleigh, held Saturday, April 1 at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds. Click here for tickets. Exhausted after a long drive from Wisconsin, Pete McCabe backed his U-Haul truck into the parking lot of Tyler’s Taproom in Raleigh. It was 2013, and McCabe was... View Article
There’s a city by the bay made popular in song, books and film, but there’s a town by the bay equally deserving of a visit—especially for its beer. Oakland, California, known to locals as The Town and not to be confused with The City (San Francisco), is home to burgeoning breweries, tucked-away beer gardens and... View Article
In July of 2015, Knee Deep Brewing Co. founder Jeremy Warren left the brewery he helped build. At Knee Deep in Auburn, California, Warren brewed a variety of hop-heavy styles like Breaking Bud IPA, Hoptologist Double IPA and Simtra Triple IPA. He’ll continue to focus on such styles at Revision Brewing Co., his new venture... View Article
Carboys, airlocks, racking canes, siphons … just reading through a list of tools needed for conventional homebrewing can be deterrent enough for some considering the hobby. Add the lengthy process of sanitizing each constituent piece before getting to the “fun” stuff, the manual labor involved in hauling 30- and 40-pound buckets to and fro, and... View Article
