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West Virginia Organic Hop Farm
Bryan George at Brykar Ridge farm in Spencer, West Virginia emailed me inquiring if I knew folks who might be interested in contracting for organic hops. I bet he’ll find some takers so I’m posting his...
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Hell, Heaven, and Organic Beer
Some days everything in the world feels just right. Today started out the other way – like we’re doomed to make the same mistakes over and over. The news in the Washington Post was even more depressing...
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UK’s First Carbon-Neutral Beer?
Adnams claims to have produced the U.K.’s first carbon-neutral beer. The beer is a light ale called East Green, named after the village common in front of the brewery. The summer issue of American...
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Sierra Nevada Goes Organic
I visited the Sierra Nevada brewery last fall and spoke with founder and owner Ken Grossman about their sustainability efforts. Given the limited role sustainability plays in the company’s marketing, I...
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Organic Hops Catch On in Colorado
Press release from Ali Hamm and Glen Fuller in Colorado. With increasing interest in growing hops locally from both farmer and brewer’s perspective, Organic hops has taken a foothold as a nascent new...
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Organic Hop Crop in Colorado
Glen Fuller's Organic Hop Farm The Delta County Independent (by way of Glen Fuller) reports on Glen’s successful crop of organic hops harvested a few weeks ago in North Fork Valley, Colorado. I’m happy...
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Omega Octoberfest: It’s In the Can (er, bottle)
(This is an update for the participants in the 2008 Fermenting Revolution course at the Omega Institute.) Fermentation slowed down to an occassional bubble this evening, so I racked the beer off into a...
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The Audacity of Hops
(This originally appeared as my column in the Winter 2008-9 issue of American Brewer magazine) With the current instability in the hop supply, brewers are seeking to secure the sources of their...
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New Organic Brews Made with Colorado-Grown Organic Hops
Glen Fuller, an organic hop grower in Colorado, sent me an email with a news release about two new brews being released that were brewed with his organic American hop varieties. Odell Brewing plans to...
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Drinking the Chesapeake
Scott Kimball, assistant brewer at Coastal Brewing Company in Delaware, emailed to say “I recently read your book … and I’ve been following your blog as well and felt inspired to start my own blog on...
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