Jamie Bogner

Jamie Bogner

Jamie Bogner is the cofounder and editorial director of Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine®. Email him at [email protected].


Designing the Perfect American-Style Witbier

Keith Villa, creator of Blue Moon had a vision for bringing his favorite Belgian beer style to America. It worked and here Villa walks us through typical Belgian recipe construction and how he tweaked tradition to amplify “first sip likeability.”

Podcast Episode 88: Allagash Brewing’s Jason Perkins: Belgian Tradition Meets American Creativity

Perkins shares lessons learned over two decades of work at Allagash, from building haze stability in witbier to fermenting with Brettanomyces and spontaneous fermentation

Podcast Episode 87: Modist Brewing’s Keigan Knee: Brewing Otherwise Impossible Beers Using a Mash Filter

In this episode, Knee discusses the mash filter process and unique design considerations, the finer points of malt in designing hoppy beers, layering cryo and T-90 hops of the same variety on top of each other for heightened effect, and much more.

Beer Bars We Love in North Carolina, New York, and Colorado

In this edition of Lovehandles we explore Brawley’s Beverage, Hoot Owl, and Finn's Manor

Pick Six: Adair Paterno of Sante Adairius Rustic Ales

Adair Paterno traded in a legal career for a life in beer. If you’re familiar with the beers they produce, it’s no surprise that her 6- pack is stacked with bright and expressive yet dry and drinkable beers with a distinctly Belgian lean.

Podcast Episode 86: Russian River Brewing’s Vinnie Cilurzo: Brewing Sour Beer with Old World Tradition and Contemporary Innovation

In part two with Vinnie Cilurzo, he discusses open fermentation for everything from Pliny the Elder to STS Pils, the impact of tank geometry, de-barreling sour beer without worry about oxygen exposure, and much more.

The New Frontier: Cannabis in Beer

Keith Villa is the creator of Blue Moon Belgian White and an advocate for the intersection of craft beer and cannabis. Here, he walks us through the challenges, and the possibilities, of a future where alcohol isn’t the only mood enhancer in your beer.

Podcast Episode 85: Russian River Brewing’s Vinnie Cilurzo: Sweating the Small Stuff When Brewing Hoppy Beers

In this conversation, the origins and design approach to Blind Pig IPA and Pliny the Elder DIPA, adjusting recipes for iconic brands as tastes shift and ingredients vary, tracking polyphenol levels batch by batch, and much more.

Podcast Episode 84: Hop Butcher For the World’s Jude La Rose, Jeremiah Zimmer, and Justin Miller: Unlocking The Magic Inside Hops

If there’s a method for adding hops to beer, they’ve tried it, learned from it, and added it to their ever-expanding repertoire.

Podcast Episode 82: pFriem Family Brewers’ Josh Pfriem: Nuance and Subtlety is the Key in Everything from Pilsner to Wood-Aged Sours

For Josh pFriem of pFriem Family Brewers, every beer they make—from Pilsner to wood-aged sour—expresses a brewing philosophy that prizes nuance and depth.