BeerAdvocate magazine - #116 (September 2016)

In this issue

On the Cover: At Whiner Beer, Brian Taylor, pictured, and Ria Neri craft farmhouse-style beers from a brewhouse that’s also a vertical farm in urban Chicago. Read more on pg. 56. Photo by Colin Beckett.

Growing Local - Neighborhood Hop Farms Provide Brewers with Terroir

You would not know that all the hops used to make Brewery Ommegang’s Hopstate NY were grown in New York if the brewery didn’t announce it prominently on the label. Justin Forsythe, Ommegang’s innovations manager, thinks that’s not altogether bad.

3 mins

Strength in Numbers

Will Mergers Help Small Breweries Compete with Big Beer.

3 mins

9 Steps to Beerdom

Cameron Read Brewmaster, Edmund’s Oast.

5 mins

Far from the Field

Downtown Breweries Embrace Urban Farmhouse Beer.

9 mins

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BeerAdvocate magazine Magazine Description:

BeerAdvocate is a quarterly magazine that celebrates beer, its culture, its history, and its community. Since launching in 2006, the goal of BeerAdvocate has been to provide fresh, honest, and insightful stories on beer and brewing. To date, our talented contributors have won 12 awards from the North American Guild of Beer Writers for their work.