John M. Verive

From grain to gas, the supply chain is vulnerable—but brewers can adapt and evolve to meet emerging challenges.

• Raw Materials
• Suppliers
• Operations

From hard-plumbed process piping to the draft lines in your tasting room, the more precisely you can monitor the flow of liquids, the more efficient—and profitable—your brewery can be.

• Operations
• Management
• Efficiency

Is the burst rinse the new hop dip? If you can innovate your beers, you can innovate your cleaning processes, too. From fellow pros, here are some tips on how to up your brewery’s CIP game.

• Brewhouse Equipment
• Cleaning
• Sanitation

Making more beer in less time with fewer raw materials is the selling point for mash-filter systems—but for intrepid brewers, the technology also offers new creative possibilities.

• Gearhead
• Mash Filters
• Mash Filter Press

Hard iced tea is an approachable option for beer-shy drinkers—and for brewers looking to expand their following.

• Beyond Beer
• Hard Tea
• Hard Iced Tea

Cooking the microbes out of your beer isn’t the only way to achieve micro-stabilization today. Mushroom-based additives, pressures higher than the deepest oceans, and the texture of dragonfly wings offer alternatives to traditional pasteurization.

• Quality Control
• Beyond Beer
• Nonalcoholic Beer

A new category in the 2026 Great American Beer Festival competition aims to raise the profile of craft maltsters and their offerings. Here’s what the malt-minded pros suggest for brewing up an entry—and it starts with collaboration.

• Malt
• Ingredients
• Raw Materials

Even small breweries with tight footprints and busy production schedules can find the space and time for lager without upsetting the balance sheet. From a few of the best lager breweries in the United States, here are tips on how.

• Lager
• Operations
• Production Schedule

From event spaces to hop products and negotiating with suppliers, here’s how some breweries are prioritizing operational sustainability in uncertain times.

• Industry All Access
• Efficiency
• Operations

Now that the days of unregulated hemp beverages are numbered, how is the industry reacting, and what might the next phase look like? While certainty is scarce, optimism remains plentiful.

• THC
• Cannabis
• Hemp

Bigger is better… except when it isn’t.

• Brewhouse Equipment
• Starting a Brewery
• Nanobreweries

Once the purview of large-scale production plants, recovering the carbon dioxide produced during fermentation is increasingly viable for smaller craft breweries—and it’s increasingly popular, too.

• CO2 Recovery
• Carbon Dioxide
• Sustainability