On Tuesday, April 17, Anheuser-Busch announced its U.S. sustainability goals for 2025. This came hot on the heels of the worldwide sustainability goals it announced in March, and its 2017 vows to pursue renewable resources. Also in 2017, AB InBev’s ”Elevate” platform outlined sustainability goals for 2018. Its newly outlined ambitions cover four categories: renewable electricity and […]
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Contract Brewing Is Losing Its Stigma, Whether Beer Geeks Like It or Not
“Brewed locally, somewhere,” is the motto of Stillwater Artisanal, an undeniably cool brewer that has called many places home. Born in Baltimore in 2010, and currently based in New York, Stillwater has brewed around the world and is now planning to open a facility in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Stillwater is a contract brewer, a company that […]
Craft Beer’s Post-Snob Era Is Here
Ashley Tobin used to come armed to her family’s house. Bottles of Philadelphia Brewing Co., Victory Brewing, Yards Brewing. If it was craft beer from greater Philadelphia, she’d drive it from her home in Eastern Pennsylvania up to Illinois so she wouldn’t have to drink her relatives’ preferred Bud Light Lime. “A little Pennsylvania for […]
The 9 Types of Craft Beer Drinkers Who Will Drive You Nuts
Craft beer is revolutionary. The industry has created international movements and launched more than 6,000 breweries across the United States. Unfortunately, its success has enabled certain enthusiasts to take what is an inarguably wonderful thing and turn it into grounds on which to proselytize and ruin everyone else’s good time. Here are some of the […]
11 Things You Should Know About Anchor Brewing
Anchor Brewing may not be on your trend watch, but this American pioneer, located in San Francisco for almost 150 years, should be in your lexicon for many reasons. Here are 11 of them. Anchor Steam Beer blew people’s minds when it first arrived First brewed in 1896, and then revived when Frederick Louis “Fritz” […]
Hop Take: The Beer Industry Is Still Sexist, but All Brewers Are Not Misogynists
Earlier this week, an extremely misguided tweet appeared on Stone Brewing’s “Arrogant Bastard” Twitter account. It read: “My technique that will help wash away the ordinariness of your day (or for rare few, cap off a day of significance). Put me in your mouth. Make an *Mmm* sound. Swallow. Express appreciation & ask permission to […]
Schlafly’s Jared Williamson Talks IPA Fads, Keeps Things Fresh
Jared Williamson is no slouch. The Indiana native got turned on to brewing while working at New Albanian Brewing Company in New Albany, Indiana in 2005. “One day they finally taught me how to use the keg washer, and the rest is history,” he told STL Beer Bulletin. At NABC, he learned everything from brewing […]
There’s a Czech Beer Brewers Are Obsessed With, And It’s Not Pilsner
Pilsners dominate Americans’ perceptions of Czech beer, but the Central European country has a dark, beery secret. The second most popular brew in the Czech Republic is near-black tmavé pivo, or “dark beer,” a brewing style that actually predates pilsner — and upstages it in some Czech taverns. At Prague’s oldest brewery, U Fleků, founded in […]
10 Things You Should Know About Deschutes Brewery
“Do your best, and next time, do better.” Such is the motto of Deschutes Brewery, a brewery deeply rooted in its home and community of Bend, Oregon. As the eighth-largest independent brewing company in the country, and 15th-largest brewing company overall, it comes as no surprise that the brewery is constantly working to improve. Aside from its […]
