Winter warmers, the upsides and downsides of brewery growth and why it matters when you add hops. 

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This week Tony is all on his own, talking beer and new year's news. 

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This week, Doug and tony talk beer trends, what to do with the beer kit you get for Christmas as well as the news roundup for the week.

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Beer could be the next big thing at UMES

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has one of the premier hospitality management programs in the region, but being the best means staying on top of trends. When it comes to food and beverage the rising trend is the brewpub, a return to a time when taverns made their own house beers.

Hops could fall out of favour in craft beer industry as brewers look to barley

"The beer industry has been too hop-centric for several years," Hughes told the drinks business. "What we're starting to see now is more brewers experimenting with traditional flavourings like malted barley." Hops have dominated the craft brewing for nearly a decade, but a combination of high demand and new agricultural advances could mean that the crop's reign is coming to an end.

More bars are booting corporate beer from their taps and doubling down on craft

At some point over the next few weeks, kegs of Founders will kick at Pizzeria Paradiso, and bottles of Wicked Weed will run out of stock. And when they do, Paradiso's four Washington-area locations - Georgetown, Dupont Circle, Alexandria and Hyattsville - will never sell another drop.

Budweiser vows to be first beer on Mars, and will send barley into space next month as a start

Like it or not, humanity won't be able to live on Earth forever. If we don't wipe out our own species by the time we figure out where to go, we'll eventually have to shove off of the planet and head elsewhere.

Craft Beer in 2017: New Report Offers Fresh Numbers

2017 was a strong year for the American craft beer movement according to a new year-end report from the Brewers Association. The Brewers Association (BA), the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent brewers - and publishers of CraftBeer.com - released its annual year-end report recapping the segment's growth along with highlights of the beer industry in 2017.

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Nate and Mat from Backshore Brewing join Doug and Tony to talk small batch brewing, flocculation and brewing at the beach in the winter.

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Gary Cannon and Holly Ski, owners of 38°-75° Brewing in Dewey Beach join us to talk about Delaware's newest smallest brewery. 

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This week, Doug and Tony talk about what to drink for Thanksgiving, making coffee beers and news from around the region. 

 

Column: Why you should bring craft beer to Thanksgiving dinner

CLOSE Beyond the volume of food many of us have for Thanksgiving, there's also an expectation of quality. Lots of people eat traditional foods, sure, but also the best versions of everyday foods. The meal and, really, the entire weekend are about family and friends, leisure and bounty.

Want to Host a Bottle Share? Resourceful Redditors Have This Advice

A string on the beer subreddit jumped out at me: "What items do you think are essential to a beer share?" Sharing beer with friends is one of the essentially beautiful parts of being a beer lover.

A-B InBev picks new North America chief: Michel Doukeris - St. Louis Business Journal

Anheuser-Busch InBev has named a new North America chief. Michel Doukeris, chief sales officer for the global brewer since January, will become its zone president for North America and CEO of Anheuser-Busch, on Jan. 1. He'll succeed Joao Castro Neves, who has run the division, based in St.

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This week, Shawn Hager and Tony Russo talk homebrew beginners, Maryland beer law, robot beer tastings and the importance of independent beer. Lots of other stuff too

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This week, Doug and Tony talk about using wild yeast to homebrew, the pros and cons and the differences in malts. They also cover how canning is helping business big and small and some of Maryland's legal problems with beer legislation. Also, gentle reminder, Saturday is Learn to Brew Day.

Maryland craft beer lacks a top-down approach

The most interesting news that came out of the recent Reform on Tap meeting was that the failure of the legislature might be an executive failure as well. Earlier this year, the Maryland Legislature passed a bill that would have all-but-killed the craft beer industry in the state.

How Much Does Malt Matter in Your Beer?

In the last year, we've made impressive leaps in terms of malt in beer. We found a standard method for extracting malt flavor. We designed the Base Malt Flavor Map, which creates a common language everyone along the supply chain, from growers to maltsters to brewers can use.

Flying Dog puts expansion plans on hold, cites state's regulatory practices

You never really know what the old-timey State of Maryland is going to do next. That seems to be the philosophy of Baltimore's Flying Dog Brewing Co. 's Chief Executive Jim Carus, who is trepidatious at best about the future of Maryland's brewing laws.

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This week's show notes include stories about why brew pubs are great bets for big breweries and small ones too, the Independent Label movement to buy Budweiser and why nitro beers are so much fun. Why big breweries want to go local

We don't have to travel far back in our beer time machine to revisit the year when Goose Island Beer Co. still had only one brewpub, its venerable but not exactly cutting-edge Clybourn Street location. That was 2014, three years after Goose Island's sale to Anheuser-Busch InBev.

Russo: Nitro-infused beer just another toy for craft enthusiasts

Setting aside the more obvious things like quality and economic benefit, what really sets craft beer apart is a sense of play. If you have tried a lot of craft beers, or even if you have just read a lot of craft beer descriptions while out to dinner, you have seen some odd combinations.

Brewers Association Jokingly Seeks To Buy Anheuser-Busch, With A Serious Goal In Mind

Craft brewing's lobbying association announced today that it's launching a crowd-funding campaign to buy Budweiser's Belgian parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev). It needs $213 billion to do it. The Brewers Association (BA), the Colorado-based trade organization that represents craft breweries, calls its campaign "Take Craft Back," and so far it includes a new website, hashtags and videos of brewers and others talking about why craft matters.

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