Jamie Bogner

Table beer and mixed-culture beer only account for 2 percent of sales at the Establishment in Calgary, Alberta—but cofounder Mike Foniok says its takes up about half their floor space and half their time. That attention is paying off with awards at the highest level.

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Recorded live at the Alberta Craft Brewing Convention in Red Deer, this panel discussion centers on the ways that creative brewers in the province use locally grown and malted grain to craft unique beers that tell relevant stories for their customers.

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Join Craft Beer & Brewing and AisleAI for a deep dive into how independent brewers are using AI tools to successfully sell into C-stores. We’ll discuss real-world examples of how you can use data, automation, and “always-on intelligence” to compete in the market and grow your brand like never before.

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Founder Matt Storm and head brewer Stefano Annicchiarico share their approach to drinkable and (mostly) dry hazy IPA and hoppy pils, using an array of New Zealand hops and a healthy dose of the experimental U.S. variety they sponsored and named five years ago—Anchovy.

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There’s a deceptive simplicity to cask ale, but for this Seattle brewer, the keys are great ingredients, close attention to the highly manual process, and conditioning for longevity in cask or can.

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You can make medal-winning helles and modern West Coast hoppy beers many different ways, but for the head brewer of this suburban Seattle brewpub, there’s no rushing the mash and no substitute for time in fermentation and conditioning.

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Ashleigh Carter, cofounder of Denver’s Bierstadt Lagerhaus, focuses solely on lager in her own brewing, and she’s drawn to those with similarly singular approaches. Her chosen six-pack honors intentional commitment to a style, to a single beer, to presentation, and to experience.

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• Lager
• Denver

Years of iteration combined with several stints interning at a Franconian brewery helped hone Howe’s approach to flavorful, fulsome lager—and the counterintuitive methods rooted in an older style of German brewing contribute to a character that’s difficult to achieve any other way.

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Can barley farming practices help mitigate the increased risk from climate chaos? And how can breweries articulate the value of regenerative practices in their beer? In this conversation with New Belgium and Bell's environmental program director Walker Modic, farmer and brewery owner Derek Heersink, and Proximity Malt commercial director Zach Gaines, we ponder the answers to those questions and more.

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• Regenerative Farming

In this special episode, recorded out in the experimental hop fields of Perrault Farms, Russian River’s Vinnie Cilurzo and hop breeder and grower Jason Perrault tell the story of Simcoe—from the early days of breeding through its near disappearance to the current context, where it’s used in Pliny the Elder in modern flowable formats.

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The eight World Beer Cup and GABF medals earned over their first four years of existence isn’t the first thing people mention when talking about Craft Coast—it’s the tacos. But whether they’re making Mexican-style lager, dark lager, XPA, West Coast IPA, or even hazy IPA, they won’t stop iterating and improving as they blend brewpub flexibility with production brewery rigor.

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The head brewer of this Brooklyn craft beer innovator brings an iconoclastic approach to hoppy beer honed through years of brewing in Southern California.

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