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No Longer Just For Macro Lagers, Craft Beer Is Finally Embracing Rice

VinePair

Rice beer has roots in civilization’s earliest fermented beverages, and is a key part of some of the world’s top-selling beer brands. ( But despite — and in part because of — its mass-market appeal, rice has largely been overlooked by the craft beer industry. His Rice Kolsch is one of the brewery’s flagship beers.

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Craft Breweries Are Simplifying to Broaden Interest

Imbibe Magazine

Sometime in the 2010s, consuming craft beer turned into a personality trait. Acquiring, drinking, and discussing beer in granular detail became an all-consuming hobby. We’re trying to make craft beer less intimidating for anybody who wants to participate in the craft beer space,” he says.

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This Week's Beer News: Weed Edition + ICBW Pint Glass Preview

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

Today, we’re bringing you an exclusive first look at this year’s Craft Beer Week pint glass, courtesy of the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild. The biggest story in Midwestern craft beer this week? Coming soon to Brighton : Grand River Brewery.

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The Mount Rushmore of Craft Breweries, According to 8 Beer Experts

VinePair

craft beer has been around so long that it’s experienced several significant booms and several subsequent busts. But through its ups and down, craft beer has proven that it is here to stay, now a part of the culinary and cultural fabric of not just American life, but life all over the world. Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Co.):

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A New Low for Local Beverage Imagery (+ Unrelated Events & Socials)

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

Alter Brewing has produced a special beer for DNC events hosted by JB Pritzker called JBeer. Looks like the Gov is at Centennial Crafted Beer & Eatery in River North today for the debut. Alter has a Pritzker beer; Minocqua has a Kamala beer; which Minnesota brewery wants to be the first to put out a Tim Walz beer?

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San Diego’s Mike Hess Brewing Introduces Special Craft Beer For City Tacos

PubClub

City Tacos has won Best Taco accolades from Ranch & Coast ’s survey of its readers for five years in a row beginning in 2020. The post San Diego’s Mike Hess Brewing Introduces Special Craft Beer For City Tacos appeared first on PubClub. Mike Hess Brewing was founded in 2010 by former U.S.

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Ole Smoky and Yee-Haw Brewing Co. Continue Their Partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank

Chilled Magazine

5000 List of the fastest growing private companies in America for four consecutive years – 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, as well as receiving the 2022 Shanken Communications’ Impact Hot Brand Award, the 2023 Growth Brand Awards from Beverage Information Group, and the 2023 PR%F the Magazine Distillery of the Year award.

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