Sep 26, 2021
Throughout my freelance beer-writing career, one person’s name
has continued to pop up as someone to pay attention to. That person
is Laura Garcia, a brewer who has worked across the state of Baja
California, but primarily in Baja’s capital city of Mexicali, which
also happens to be her hometown.
But this isn’t a...
Sep 24, 2021
As the curator of the American Brewing History Initiative at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Theresa McCulla has access to some of the United States’ most treasured brewing artifacts. It was the uncovering of one such artifact that led her to explore the life of Patsy Young, an enslaved woman,...
Sep 18, 2021
I’ve found myself adding some qualifiers to interview requests lately, ensuring people that while I create stories, analysis, and podcasts for Good Beer Hunting, the interests of myself and the publication extend far beyond what the name may suggest. If you click around goodbeerhunting.com or scroll through our...
Sep 15, 2021
What is an IPA? Most drinkers around the world would probably identify IPA as the flagship style of the modern craft beer movement. As its popularity has grown, it has become known for a bunch of different—and often contradictory—characteristics. A modern IPA is either bitter or not bitter; pale, white, or...
Sep 11, 2021
The intersection between digital media and the more slow, meandering works of book authorship is one that, on its surface, might not seem to be well populated. But these days, to be a writer at all means being a lot of different things. You might work across channels, platforms, industries, styles, digital and...