When used properly in the brewery, antifoam can improve head retention, assist yeast propagation and improve hop utilization, among other benefits.

What’s better than a brewpub? If you’re like a lot of people with a single location comfortably under their belts, the answer is two brewpubs, or more.

Stem rust, caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis, is a significant disease affecting cereal crops that has spread across Africa, Asia and into the Middle East.

For craft brewers, distribution in 2009 is a dramatically different landscape. While there are fewer distribution choices overall, the options are clearly more varied.

Are craft brewers confusing the consumer by releasing too many beers and cannibalizing sales of pre-existing products? Should they think about reining in their portfolios?

When historians write about craft brewers’ rush to embrace the “new new thing,” will they lump Twitter with The Great Raspberry Beer outbreak of the 1990s?

One of the growing trends among craft brewers has been to literally get their “heads” together. These “collabeerators” are changing the landscape of beer production.

The phenomenon of Beer Week is sweeping across the U.S., creating a buzz about craft beer. Beer dinners, tastings, meet-the-brewer nights and festivals lay the foundation.

Growing conditions in both the Yakima and Willamette valleys were close to ideal this year, but U.S. hop acreage decreased in 2009. Barley production also declined.

Nobody would have predicted that the story of the 2009 global harvest would be one of bumper yields in hops and adequate, yet promising, supplies in malt.