Matthew Reich’s goal for his New Amsterdam amber lager in the summer of 1982 was fairly modest. Here it was in a nutshell, according to the business plan that the Hearst
The first pour every February of the Russian River Brewing Co.’s Pliny the Younger had been reliably popular since the inaugural one in 2005. Something about the 2010 debut seemed different, however. Perhaps it was because the triple IPA from the Santa Rosa, CA-based brewery and brewpub
By the mid-1980s, the beer scene in Arizona, which hosts Super Bowl XLIX this weekend, was bleak. The state’s only brewery to make it out of Prohibition for any length of time eight tried was the Phoenix-based Arizona Brewing Co. That brewery began to shed consumers, however, as Phoenix’s post World War II population boomed, the newcomers
Shortly after Bert Grant filed incorporation papers with Washington State in 1981 to open the nation’s first brewpub since Prohibition, he and the critic Michael Jackson were talking about the
In the fall of 1984, Richard Wrigley, a British transplant from Manchester who once likened Michelob to “a soft drink,” opened a 5,000-square-foot brewpub called the Manhattan Brewing Co. It was located in its namesake borough, in an old electric-company station at Watts and Thompson streets in the not-quite-fashionable-yet Soho neighborhood. Wrigley sold two ales