Craft Beer
Craft lagers, barrel-aged stouts, and the breweries pushing boundaries — we cover the culture of beer from tap room to table.
Upstate New York Craft Beer: A Guide to the Best Breweries
CrushBrew Editorial · Beer Travel · New York · 7 min read New York State now has more than 500 independent craft breweries — and…
Beer Church Brewing New Buffalo MI: A Complete Visitor Guide
CrushBrew Editorial · Beer Travel · Michigan · 6 min read Most people drive past Beer Church without stopping. They see a white church at…
How to Order Craft Beer at a Taproom: A Practical Guide
Walking into a craft beer taproom for the first time — or even the fiftieth time at an unfamiliar brewery — can feel more complicated…
Beer and Cheese Were Made for Each Other. Here’s the Proof.
Wine and cheese get all the attention, but brewers and cheesemakers have known for centuries that beer is actually the more natural companion. Garrett Oliver,…
Fresh Hop Beer Season: What It Is and Why You Drink It Now
Every year, for a window of roughly six to eight weeks between late August and mid-October, something happens in American craft beer that can’t be…
Ballantine Beer: Before Craft Beer Had a Name
Before Sierra Nevada. Before Anchor Brewing. Before the craft beer revolution had a name, there was Ballantine. For over a century, the P. Ballantine and…
Beer Is 9,000 Years Old: The Ancient Recipes Being Brewed Again
The oldest documented evidence of beer is a 6,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablet depicting people drinking from a communal bowl through reed straws. The oldest surviving…
The IPA Guide for 2026: History, Haze, Bitterness, and Why Fresh Matters Most
Local brewers weigh in on America’s most popular style The India Pale Ale was not invented to survive the voyage to India. The story that…
Why You Buy Wine by the Label — and What It Actually Tells You
Every wine drinker has done it. Standing in a wine shop with forty bottles at eye level and no particular guidance, you reach for the…
Beer Cocktails: Beyond the Shandy and the Boilermaker
In August 2025, a bartender posted a video making something he called a Beericano — an Americano cocktail with a layer of frothed lager foam…
Craftsman Brewing: The LA Brewery That Refuses to Make It Easy
In thirty years of craft brewing, Craftsman Brewing Company of Pasadena has never bottled a single beer. There is no tasting room. The brewery is…
Glamping and Great Beer: Moab Under Canvas and a Visit to The Moab Brewery
CrushBrew Editorial · Travel · 7 min read The red rocks of Arches National Park and the deep canyons of Canyonlands are reason enough to…
The Growth of Cicerone As A Profession
CrushBrew Editorial · Craft Beer · 7 min read As craft beer keeps expanding, so does the need for people who truly understand it, and…
Ballast Point San Diego Brewing
CrushBrew Editorial · Craft Beer · 8 min read Ballast is the weight a ship carries to stay steady, and Ballast Point Brewing took its…
Top 10 Craft Beer Cities
CrushBrew Editorial · Travel · 11 min read America’s best beer cities are a lot like its best wine regions: concentrated, walkable, and built around…