Professional Brewing


Breakout Brewer: Creature Comforts

Curiosity, community service, and high-quality balanced beers are the focal points of this relatively new brewery in Athens, Georgia.

Breakout Brewer: Hardywood Park

For Patrick Murtaugh and Eric McKay, the co-owners of Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, it’s all about relationships as they strive to incorporate local ingredients into their beers.

Breakout Brewer: Other Half Brewing Company

With the strong belief that local breweries play an important role in their communities, the founders of Other Half Brewing are filling a craft-beer void in New York City.

Todd Haug Is Gunning for a Better Future at 3 Floyds

Todd Haug opens up about job security and future opportunities, which factored into his decision to decamp Surly for 3 Floyds.

Wild Lager: An Experiment in Collaborative Co-Fermentation

A recent collaboration brew between Wolves & People farmhouse brewery and lager brewers Heater Allen offered the opportunity to try partnering homegrown wild yeast with a lager strain to produce a mixed-fermentation lager.

Breakout Brewer: Arizona Wilderness Brewing

Arizona Wilderness Brewing explores the world through local flavors and far-flung friendships.

Breakout Brewer: Cellarmaker Brewing

Cellarmaker Brewing Company is one of the most cellar-focused craft breweries in San Francisco, if not the country, and accordingly named. They’ve built a reputation as a Bay Area institution in less than three years.

Breakout Brewer: El Segundo Brewing

From wet-hopped beers to the freshest possible bottles offered to drinkers to the unquenchable desire to keep refining and keep showing drinkers a new side of hoppy beers, El Segundo Brewing has become L.A.’s premier IPA brewery.

Rooted: Commercial Brewers and Their Homebrewing Partners

The symbiosis between pro brewers and homebrewers runs deep—both rely on the other to continue to grow and survive. Instead of viewing the homebrewer as competition, pro brewers are happy to lend a helping hand in several ways.

Naturally A Bit Wild

American brewers interested in making beers that fit under the rather broad umbrella of saison don’t necessarily need to look toward Wallonia. The answer may be in their own backyards.