New School Beer + Cider

1 week ago | newschoolbeer.com | Ezra Johnson-Greenough

The Brewers Association (BA)—the trade association representing small and independent American craft brewers1 —today released its annual production figures for the U.S. craft brewing industry2, highlighting the new realities of a maturing market in a rapidly evolving environment. Craft brewers produced 23.1 million barrels of beer in 2024, a 4.0% decrease from 20233.

1 week ago | newschoolbeer.com | Ezra Johnson-Greenough

About the Watersheds & the Beers They Inspired Hood River Brewshed – The West Fork Hood River and Cold Springs Creek (Tamanawas Falls) are two of the waterways in this brewshed that stand to gain new protections via the River Democracy Act.

2 weeks ago | newschoolbeer.com | Ezra Johnson-Greenough

FRESH HOP PALE ALES AND INDIA PALE ALES 🥇GOLD - Living Haus Beer Co Dino 🥈SILVER - Baerlic Beer Company Fresh Hop Splishy IPA 🥉BRONZE - Bend Brewing Company Fresh Hop Mosaic Mega Pint FRESH HOP HAZY PALE ALES AND INDIA PALE ALES 🥇GOLD - Von Ebert Brewing Fresh Hop Sector 7 🥈SILVER - Fort George Brewery Fresh Hop Fields of Green 🥉BRONZE - StormBreaker Brewing Set Freshies To Haze OTHER FRESH HOP BEERS 🥇GOLD - Binary Brewing Cones of Lorien 🥈SILVER - Oak Union Brewing Fresh Hop Green Idol...

2 weeks ago | newschoolbeer.com | Ezra Johnson-Greenough

On Monday, April 7th employees of Hop Valley Brewing were informed that all brewing operations will be ceasing at their Eugene headquarters and primary brewing production facility by this July. The Hop Valley beers aren’t going anywhere, all of their beers will now be brewed at either 10 Barrel Brewing in Bend or Widmer Brothers Brewing in Portland. The entire operations team at the Eugene brewery will be let go and some of the administrative and marketing staff have already been laid off.

2 weeks ago | newschoolbeer.com | Ezra Johnson-Greenough

One of the current biggest trends in craft beer is a movement towards more bang-for-your-buck large scale packaging formats, what better brewery to do that then Portland, OR’s Gigantic Brewing. Going very very big, Gigantic has announced GINORMOUS 6-Packs featuring six huge 19.2oz cans of their Imperial IPA. The 19.2oz can format nicknamed “stovepipe" cans has been trending for awhile now. But this may be the first time you can purchase a 6-pack of them.