Shop
Lemonati’s Mighty Swell Brands: Redefining Spiked Seltzer and Disrupting RTD
Tiger’s Blood, Purple Magic, Bluepeary, Papaya Punch, Cherryosity…This short list of Mighty Swell’s sixteen Spiked Seltzer and five Spirited flavors sounds more like confections from ...
The Cult of Underberg: What Is in Those Tiny Brown Bottles?
Twist, slap, drink, repeat!
Unwrap the brown paper, unscrew the plastic green cap, slap the little amber bottle down on the table, pick it up with your mouth, and ...
How to Grow Hops at Home
Merge your love of homebrewing and planting.
Homebrewing has been climbing a steady slope of popularity for years, but the practice has been around for decades. Bringing the great outdoors inside is ...
Hop Farms & How to Grow Hops in New England
The resurgence of hop farms in New England.
Besides potatoes, craft breweries, and arrogance over sports championships, not much grows easily in New England. Indulge in a local’s kvetching—this is an unpredictable meteorological ...
Brewing for Impact With Fonio: A 5,000-Year-Old Miracle Grain from Western Africa Forging the Future
Hold the fonio.
It all began with a chance meeting at Questlove’s house. “That’s a line you can’t make up,” thirty-year Brooklyn Brewmaster Garrett Oliver tells me with ...
A Day in the Mind of a Homebrew Competition Judge
Professional beer taster.
I walked down a hallway between the tap room and the barrel room of Funky Buddha Brewery. In the corner I saw a couple of ...
The Three of Cups: Connecting the Dots Between Beer and Tarot
Three hooded figures raise goblets with skull-like faces up towards the sky, shimmering like the waves of a mirage. They seem on the verge of ...
The 24 Best Dive Bars to Visit in America
As voted by the Hop Culture and Next Glass team.
We love brewery taprooms. Give us a well-lit space, a bank of stainless steel taps, and a food truck, and we’re happy campers. However, sometimes ...
A Day in the Life of a Czech Tapster
1 million beers poured and counting.
The Czechs have a saying that goes something like this: “The brewer brews the beer, but the tapster makes it.” In Czechia, drinking isn’t just ...
Inside the Cellars: Discovering the Budějovický Budvar Hidden Fresh-Hop Beers
????
The tan doors stood slightly ajar. Inside, a concrete floor slick with puddles of perspiration and white tiled walls reflected huge cream-colored tanks stacked like ...
Kazbek: Everything You Need to Know About This Surprising Czech Hop
Move over Saaz (just kidding).
We’re all standing around a long blue-top table. On top, swathes of blue paper with heaps of dried hops, each designated with a little white ...
Pivovar Proud: The Electrifying, Experimental Brewery at Pilsner Urquell
Light-bulb moment.
A white-haired man with a cherubic face and black thin-rimmed glasses greets us. Over his navy long-sleeve waffle knit, a light black vest stamped over ...
A Happy Accident: The History of Timbo Pils and the West Coast Pilsner
The new hazy?
Sometimes the best things materialize from thin air. In 2015, Highland Park Brewery stumbled into what has become an emerging style in craft beer: the ...
At Goldfinger, Lagers Are a Lifeblood, Literally
Lager is legacy.
“Did you go to Northwestern? Your name sounded so familiar, and you also looked familiar. Didn’t we go to Cuba together?” Goldfinger Owner and Brewer ...
Log Jammin’: For the Love of Lagerbier and Inclusivity
Lager, lager, lager, lager.
BarrieHaus, Bierstadt Lagerhaus, Cohesion, Fidens, Fox Farm, Goldfinger, Good Word, Marlow Artisanal Ales, Olfactory, Sacred Profane, Schilling, The Seed, Wooden Robot. Human Robot’s fourth annual ...