January/February 2016

Brewpubs Issue

In the January/February 2016 The New Brewer, we turn our focus to brewpubs, diving into topics such as brewpub menus, marketing, quality, and extreme brewing. You’ll also find a wealth of information and news you can use for your brewpub or packaging brewery in our departments.

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Brewpubs Issue

Limited Space, Unlimited Creativity

The nation’s brewpubs are keeping pace with production breweries in sheer diversity of styles and audacity in pushing the envelope, brewing up sours and barrel-aged beers.

Brewpubs Issue

Featured Stories

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Elevating the Brewpub Menu

Adam Dulye

The explosive growth of craft beer has brought massive changes to beer cuisine. As craft brewers continue to gain market share, it’s time to see food menus play their part as well.

Getting Quality-Conscious in the Brewpub

Dick Cantwell

Not all brewers are conscientious and competent stewards of our collective brand of craft beer, but brewpubs can be incubators for the quality-conscious phenomenon.

A Pint Above

Audra Gaiziunas

As total breweries surpassed 4,100 in the United States, both existing and in-planning craft beer entities will be forced to find new ways to keep themselves relevant.

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Ongoing Beer Training for Servers

Brewers Association

Keeping your staff interested and involved with the training process can be a challenge, so refreshing frequently with new training concepts can be the key to success.

Dunkelweizendoppelbock

Horst Dornbusch

This big, delicious sipping beer with a warming and lingering alcohol glow can be thought of as a dark, “imperialized” version of a hefeweizen.

A Note From the Editor

Jill Redding, Editor-in-Chief

This issue also includes brewery-generated news about the craft brewing community in the Brewery Updates and Beer Releases sections; and new products and services from the allied trade in Industry Supplier News. In our back-page interview, we highlight Charles Finkel of The Pike Brewing Company, an industry veteran who shares keys for operating a successful brewpub

Cheers, and we hope you enjoy this issue of The New Brewer.

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