BROOKLYN, N.Y. – July 8, 2025 – The Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing & Distilling (The MJF) is pleased to
Tom Acitelli is a great writer and beer historian who spends the time doing the research that eventually bubbles up
An early Belgium Comes To Cooperstown Festival on the grounds of Brewery Ommegang. (Photo by Bryan J. Kolesar at TheBrewLounge.com)
(File Photo) By the start of 1977, Michael Jackson was a mildly successful, 34-year-old newspaper and television journalist whose biggest
(Photo by Jeff Quinn) Back in the 1970s, the United States was a vast beer desert. With little difference between
(Label courtesy Tad Stratford) On page 154 of the second edition of the Simon & Schuster Pocket Guide to Beer,
David Geary stands over the kettle at Traquair House in 1984. (Photo courtesy D.L. Geary Brewing Co.) There were three keynote
“My name really is Michael Jackson, but I don’t sing and I don’t drink Pepsi. I drink beer.” And thus
Michael Jackson with Tony Gomes, a brewer at the now-defunct Saxer Brewing in Portland, in 1998. (Photo courtesy Jeff Alworth)
Some call the word “craft” beer a perfect choice, and others consider it meaningless. Tracing its etymology reveals how craft
