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Brewing

Close up of a grain.

Maine is scaling up its local grain economy

Food

Craft brewing, artisanal baking and innovative mills and malthouses are reviving Maine’s economic might.

The New Belgium Brewing Company is the 4th largest craft brewer in the US. Their beers are in demand across the globe, but the company is hesitant to expand exports too quickly.

Europeans are embracing American craft beer. So, why are exports trailing off?

Economics
From the rooftop to the bottle: Joris Hoebe's Hemelswater beer (“Heaven’s water”) is part of a citywide effort to control flooding in Amsterdam.

When life gives you too much rain, make beer with it

Culture
Washington's Yakima Valley produces a quarter of the world's hops, but warming temperutres in the region have growers and brewers concerned about the future of the vital crop.

The climate for making beer is changing, so brewers and hops growers are, too

Environment
A Kirin staff member poses with its new craft beer product "Spring Valley Brewery 496 prototype," which was launched in July 2014. Craft styles are increasingly migrating from the United States to other countries.

America’s craft brewers are inspiring beer lovers — and makers — across the globe

Food
Beer buyers contemplate their choices at The Beer Stein in Eugene, Oregon. Many of those choices are brewed by Oregon's 171 craft breweries.

How Oregon became a paradise for beer drinkers

Lifestyle & Belief

If you wanted to build a place with the perfect culture and climate for brewing beer, you’d probably build Oregon. That’s what is fueling the state’s incredible boom in high-quality craft brewing.

Beer buyers contemplate their choices at The Beer Stein in Eugene, Oregon. Many of those choices are brewed by Oregon's 171 craft breweries.

How Oregon became a paradise for beer drinkers

Lifestyle & Belief

If you wanted to build a place with the perfect culture and climate for brewing beer, you’d probably build Oregon. That’s what is fueling the state’s incredible boom in high-quality craft brewing.

A sibling rivalry ferments between identical twin Danish brewers

Lifestyle & Belief

They were born minutes apart and they are both enviable craft brewers, so why won’t these brothers drink a pint with each other? Journalist Jonah Weiner shares the story behind a rivalry that is delighting the beer world.

A sibling rivalry ferments between identical twin Danish brewers

Lifestyle & Belief

They were born minutes apart and they are both enviable craft brewers, so why won’t these brothers drink a pint with each other? Journalist Jonah Weiner shares the story behind a rivalry that is delighting the beer world.

Father Isaac of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, MA.

Hallelujah, America has its first Trappist beer

Lifestyle & Belief

For centuries Trappist monks have been brewing beer in Belgium. Now for the first time the old world tradition has come to the new world to St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, MA.