The Culture of Craft Beer

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The Complete Beer Course Celebrates a Decade With Updated Edition

One of the best beer books.
If there’s one modern beer journalist to know, it’s Josh Bernstein. He’s pioneered the shift of niche beer writing toward a broader audience, and his ...
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Denizens Brewing: Fighting for Equality in Life, Law, and Liquid

One word: trailblazing.
Denizens Brewing Co. is a trailblazing brewery. Seriously. When wife-and-wife team Julie Veratti and Emily Bruno set out to start a brewery in Silver Spring, ...
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New Documentary Chronicles Black and Brown Brewery Owners ‘One Pint at a Time’

A first-of-its-kind film on Black and Brown brewery owners.
The sounds of a brewhouse—gears whirring, water boiling, steam hissing—are intersectional. Words pop up on the screen: “Each year, the craft beer industry generates tens ...
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Creating Safer Spaces in Craft Beer, Part Four — Hire Intentionally and Train Your Team

Part four of ten.
Have you ever applied for a job in the craft beer industry? If so, where did you look? Was there anything about the job description ...
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Ten Eyck: Seven Women, One Brewery, Countless Amazing Beers

Just read this incredible story.
Seven women—four Air Force veterans, two former rugby players (one a national team vet), and one law enforcement professional—start a brewery together. Sound like a ...
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How G. Qulture x Hop Culture Created a Queer Beer Garden

Revealing the true 'nature' of beer for everyone.
Imagine you could build your own brick-and-mortar shop. What would you fill it with? What would it look like? What would you hang on the ...
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Creating Safer Spaces in Beer, Part Three — Does Every Brewery Need a Code of Conduct?

Part three of ten.
At a beer festival last May, Necromancer Assistant Brewer Nina Santiago stood in line for the bathroom when an employee from a Grist Houst Craft ...
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Taking the Path Less Traveled: ‘Foraging’ Ahead with Bow & Arrow Brewing Co.

Wild, sour beers in the heart of the American Southwest.
A couple of years ago, Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. co-founders and life partners Shyla Sheppard and Missy Begay set out searching for the elusive ...
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Queer Beer Joins Forces with Meals On Us PDX to Fight Food Insecurity

Changing lives one meal at a time.
Four weeks ago, I opened up my inbox to find this email. “Hello! My Name is Marco Antonio Guzman. I am a Mexican queer male ...
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Creating Safer Spaces in Beer, Part Two — What Does a Safe Space Look Like?

Part two of ten.
In the opening part of our series ​​[Creating Safer Spaces in Craft Beer, Part One — Why Isn’t Craft Beer More Diverse?] we explained why ...
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Everything You Need to Know About the 2023 Queer Beer Box

Hello Squirrel Friends! Grace Weitz here, Senior Content Editor for Hop Culture. In 2020, I started Queer Beer for one simple reason: I’d never found ...
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The Boundary-Breaking Craft Beer Instagrams We’re Following in 2023

Double tap, double down.
Undeniably and unequivocally, Instagram has become a go-to platform for craft beer, displaying gorgeous pour shots, announcing releases, facilitating trades, and more. But more recently, ...
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Firestone Walker Invitational: Drinking Some of the World’s Best Beer in Wine Country

One of the best beer festivals!
One of the best beer festivals in the country, the 2023 Firestone Walker Invitational showcased various worldwide beer riches available at every corner. “The original ...
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Creating Safer Spaces in Craft Beer, Part One — Why Isn’t Craft Beer More Diverse?

Part one of ten.
In April of 2023, Hop Culture posted the following message to its Instagram page: Grace here, Managing Editor of Hop Culture. As a Queer-identifying person ...
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The Proper Czech Pours: The Best Foam You’ll Ever Drink

Foam is friend, not foe!
Step one: Hand wash, rinse, and clean the glass at the same temperature as the beer you’re serving. Next, stick the nozzle of a LUKR ...
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1,067 Beers and 7 Years Later, Southern Grist Is Still One of Nashville’s Best Breweries

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Seven years ago, Kevin Antoon, Jamie Lee, and Jared Welch opened a little 1,700-square-foot brewery called Southern Grist in East Nashville with just forty-nine seats. ...
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