The Defender took home a gold medal for the American-Style Stout category and a gold in that same category at the 2014 World Beer Cup.
The beer culture in Chicago is reflective of the city itself: compelling, unabashed, and progressive.
Andrea and Christian Stanley malt between 5 and 6 tons of grain per week, between their 4-ton malting system and the floor malting operation.
If you’ve ever taken a whiff of a pale lager and gotten a noseful of corn, then you’re already familiar with this week’s off-flavor.
With just a couple of months until the winter holidays, it’s time to start thinking about those winter brews.
Browsing through the craft beer aisles at your favorite store, you don’t always have time to read every label or search for the rating of the best beer to take home.
Beer tourism used to be what we beer geeks just called vacation, but in the past decade “beercation” has become a lucrative trend with a catchy name.
When Witsoe opened Wit’s End Brewing Co. (named as a play on his last name) in 2011, he started brewing one barrel at a time and quickly made a name for himself as one of Denver’s best brewers.
Just an hour outside of Portland, Oregon, where the Columbia River and the Hood River meet, is the small, but brewery-dense town of Hood River.
