While industrial beers suffer flat or declining sales, craft brewers are experiencing double-digit growth.
It was probably silly of me to expect a firm adherence to Old World styles among freewheeling American brewers, not when experience has demonstrated that many Americans are more interested in forging new styles.
This first professional experience as a brewer was an important experiment, he says.
At the National Craft Brewers Conference in Milwaukee last month, attendees were mostly experienced brewers interested in seminars like Hopping to Perfection and The Biodiversity of Yeast.
In fact, the centre celebrates its 100th birthday this year, and experienced brewers have until 17 December to enter the Centenary Brewing Competition.
I recently paid Highland Park Brewery a preview visit on a day that founder/brewer Bob Kunz (a longtime fixture of the Los Angeles craft beer community after years of managing the beer programs at both Father's Office restaurants and experience as a brewer at Pasadena's Craftsman Brewery) was prepping fruit to add to a fermenting brew.
That's just what Jaime Clowes did after becoming disenchanted with her work in project support and inspired by her love of beer and experience as a home brewer.
Drinkers at the selected bars could gaze at forests in the highlands, open waters and sunsets while drinking beer, which the brewer hoped would be a memorable experience.
However, C.C. has a 4-0 carecordecord in the A.L.D.S. and has plenty of October experience with the Indians, Brewers and Yankees.
Following a meet-the-brewer event with Welsh outfit, Celt Experience, the boards were heavily dominated by its beers, but I opted, instead, for a bottle of Sugar Lumps by an exciting new experimental Livingston brewery, Elixir.
