This story was adapted from the newly published second edition of The Audacity of Hops: The History of America’s Craft
Larry Bell, founder of Bell’s Brewery. A teenage Larry Bell first discovered a wider world of beer in the mid-1970s
Back in early days of North American craft brewing, there was one thing you could be pretty much certain of
In 2010, crude oil flushed into waterways near Bell’s Brewery. The spill caused brewery owner Larry Bell to become an
Sierra Nevada’s newest year-round release—Torpedo Extra IPA, an India pale ale embellished by the brewery’s homemade hop-extractor, dubbed “the hop
In his charming book, Great American Eccentrics, Carl Sifakis defines his subject matter thusly: “The true eccentric follows his own