November/December 2009

Raw Materials Issue

For the November/December 2009 The New Brewer, we present our annual Raw Materials issue. In this issue, we recap the 2009 barley and hop harvests in the U.S. and around the world.

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Raw Materials Issue

2009 North American Harvest

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.

Raw Materials Issue

Featured Stories

2009 European Harvest

Horst Dornbusch & Walter Koenig

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.

Steady On

Dick Cantwell

If you’re Cascade, it’s good to be king. Head, shoulders and torso above the next nearest competitor (Centennial, again), this Yakima staple is the New York Yankees of hops.

Brewing a Wheat Beer with Intensive Banana Aroma

Michael Eder

A German brewer offers a European perspective on brewing a wheat beer with intensive banana aroma using a method has been successfully tested many times in Germany.

Spicing Up Your Beer

Randy Mosher

We’re all brewing herb beer already. Hops are great, but why should they be the only thing we use to season beer? Why not use everything that’s available to us?

The Epicenter of Beer

Jill Redding

The Great American Beer Festival keeps on getting bigger. And better. And it keeps on packing in beer lovers, who filled the Colorado Convention Center September 24-26.

A Note From the Editor

Jill Redding, Editor-in-Chief

This issue also includes most of our usual informative departments, plus brewery-generated news about the craft brewing community in the Brew News and Beer Releases sections; and new products and services from the allied trade in Industry Supplier News. In our back-page interview, we highlight Saint Arnold’s Brock Wagner.

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

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