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Distilleries Embrace Beer

New Holland Artisan Spirits For the last several years, it has become increasingly popular to age beers in whiskey barrels.

Canned Mythology

Dale’s Pale Ale from Oskar Blues Brewery was not the first American craft beer sold in a can. It wasn’t

Rise of the Micro-Maltsters

Brian Simpson rakes malt at Riverbend Malt House in Asheville, NC. Spend enough time in a tavern or a taproom

The Perfect Fit

It’s not exactly a closely kept secret that the U.S. craft beer industry is growing, and growing fast. Approaching the

A Taste for Hops

Image Courtesy www.BioLib.de – Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) Writing a manual on hops in 1877, British

Team Yeast

GROUP EFFORT In John Palmer’s How To Brew, he recommends pitching around 400 billion yeast cells for a 5-gallon batch

The Secret Life of Yeast

To earlier generations of brewers, the microscopic beings responsible for fermentation typically arrived on the scene in the form of

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