To celebrate its American Craft Beer Week, which starts on May 13, the Brewers Association has released a sweet graphic representing some of the nation's best craft beer outfits. The U.S. map, plastered with brewery logos, reads "No Red States or Blue States, Only Brew States."
BERLIN - Almost 65 years after Allied planes flew Western supplies into blockaded Berlin, a new American import is arriving by air: craft beer. The beer is being flown in as part of a new surge of German interest in American brewing, upending a centuries-old relationship in which German beer defined the golden standard for brewing and Americans emulated it.
In the past week, you may have caught wind of a popular beer from Escondido, Calif.'s Stone Brewing Co. hitting the shelves in the bay area. The arrival of this beer played like a special event at local beer bars such as the Ale and the Witch and Willard's Tap House, with customers eager to try it.
Michigan's beer-making industry is no stranger to water sustainability Without water, life cannot exist. And neither can beer. While that analogy might be extreme, most people in the craft brewing industry, which grew 20 percent in Michigan in 2012, agree that water's importance is understated in almost every way - use, waste, quality, conservation, and protection.
PORTLAND, Ore. - Ask a bartender exactly how much profit was collected from that pint of beer you just drank, and the answer is likely to be as murky as a barrel-aged bourbon stout. The economics of alcohol, like the calorie count, are usually about the last things purveyors want their customers focused on.
