Craft Brewing Magazine
The Brewery Maintenance Playbook: Closing the Due-Diligence Gap
Acquiring a new brewery can come with hidden costs if due diligence on maintenance is overlooked, leading to preventable issues that impact operations and profitability. This playbook reveals the common blind spots and offers a roadmap for smoother integration.
The Green, Green Beer of Home
Is green-colored beer just a contemporary gimmick to drum up business on St. Patrick’s Day? Not necessarily—its history is longer than you think.
Rethinking Noble Hops: Why Brewers Are Turning to Domestic Alternatives
The Noble-hop tradition isn’t disappearing—it’s evolving. U.S. varieties and innovative blends now offer brewers classic floral, herbal character with modern consistency, efficiency, and dependable sourcing.
Recipe: Ancient Fancy Show-Off Nordic Grog
With conjecture based on archaeological findings, here’s a recipe for a mixed grog—in this case, an ale that includes herbs, honey, and fruit—of the sort that well-to-do, Bronze Age Danes might have enjoyed on special occasions and then (literally) taken to their graves.
Podcast Episode 464: Bobby Kros of Kros Strain Lets the Liquid Do the Talking
Over the past eight years, Nebraska’s Kros Strain has won three Craft Beer & Brewing Best in Beer trophies for three diverse styles: hazy IPA, mixed-culture saison, and barrel-aged barleywine. But cofounder Bobby Kros would rather use flavor than words to tell you why.