Brauerei Michael Plank is a 391 year-old brewery named after the caretaker who has lived all those years.. Today’s Michael Plank is the 16th generation of first-born sons named Michael. His five year-old first son, Michael, will be the 17th ...
In his role as Pied Piper of the envelope-pushing American brewing movement, Sam Calagione is famous for his “off-centered beer for off-centered people” philosophy. As founder and owner of the Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, he simultaneously pays homage to and ...
Many common beliefs about the character and evolution of American beer are flat out wrong. So says historian Maureen Ogle, who unfolds a masterfully convincing case in her new book, Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer. The title makes ...
In 1980, a homebrew shop, if you could find one, was an unkempt corner of a wine-making shop or Italian hardware store, a few dusty cans of English malt extract crowned by wrinkly packets of dying yeast. On the shelf ...
