Beervana Blog
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Founded by Jeff Alworth in 2006, the award-winning Beervana Blog has been the leading source for beer news, insights about brewing, beer culture, and opinion in the world of beer. I've worked harder to turn the site into something more than a blog, where posts are often disposable and unpolished. I have published a variety of deeply-reported pieces, and have a number of ongoing series.
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1w ago
Google has a new AI-augmented organizational tool available called NotebookLM that functions as a project manager, collaborator, and research assistant rolled up into one. It may be the first really helpful AI application I've found ..read more
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3w ago
Douglas Lager got a soft launch last fall, but an unexpected shortage of draft Rainier in Seattle offered a rare opportunity to expand this spring. I check in with this new project to create a domestic lager in the long lineage of the Northwest’s old breweries ..read more
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3w ago
One of the big fights of the 2025 legislature is already heating up: whether to make Oregon's beer tax by far the highest in the nation. Unfortunately, we may not have an honest discussion about what that actually means ..read more
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1M ago
On Tuesday, Michael Kiser issued an unexpected announcement about the site he founded fifteen years ago: . The next day, the Brewers Association announced that Bob Pease was stepping down as CEO after ten years in the job. Some thoughts about these big transitions ..read more
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1M ago
new organization to promote Oregon beer , you gotta throw a party, am I right? Later this month, Celebrate Oregon Beer is delighted to partner with TrueWest on the Rose City Fresh Hops Fest ..read more
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1M ago
In my nonscientific surveys of the pubs in which I drink, it seems there has been a transition underway: pilsners replacing pale ales as the standard session beer. I decided to check my work to see if this was really true. ..read more
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1M ago
Tilray, the erstwhile cannabis company that has jumped into beer, announced it was acquiring four more breweries from Molson Coors yesterday. In a rough economy for breweries, is this crazy like a fox or just plain crazy ..read more
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2M ago
Winning awards and accolades isn’t enough to make a beer a classic, like Harvey’s Sussex Best or Saison Dupont or Schneider Weisse or Pliny the Elder. It takes decades of time, thought, and refinement. pFriem’s Pilsner is a case study in that unfolding process, and why it’s such a long journey ..read more
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2M ago
Cask ale is on life support in its home country, and it’s not because the beer isn’t delightful. When fresh, it is. The problem is that old orthodoxies have defended an indefensible method of serving, one that guarantees the beer goes stale very quickly. It never had to be this way ..read more