Bubbling up: the growing value of yeast to brewers
In the early 1990s, during a cross-Canada tour in support of my second book about beer, I was approached by…
All articles by Stephen Beaumont
Stephen Beaumont
Beer commentator
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Lost in a haze: North American craft beer searches for mojo
Craft beer in North America has stalled. That much is plain to see. From the era of annual double-digit growth,…
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Climate concerns fuel hop growers’ innovation
It’s not often hops and hop growing make the mainstream news but in early October it seemed the English language…
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Tilray has track-record to make success of latest M&A in uncertain US craft-beer category
When Aphria, the Canadian cannabis company, acquired US-based SweetWater Brewery in November 2020, some industry eyebrows were raised but not…
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Hop-loving brewers need to remember beer drinkers matter
By almost all objective standards, we are living in the heyday of hops. There are presently more varieties available to…
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Why Sapporo’s swoop for Stone Brewing makes sense
The move by Sapporo Holdings to acquire US craft beer maker Stone Brewing surprised some industry watchers – but it…
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Beer helped fuel the rise of RTDs. How can it strike back?
The original RTD is beer, a drink facing fierce competition the world over from an ever-burgeoning range of ready-to-drink beverages…
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Will beer’s forays into functional stick?
One needn’t spend an abundance of time in the drinks industry in order to become impressed by the sheer volume…
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Where has beer’s innovation mojo gone? – comment
In the beer category, innovation arrives sporadically and assumes many forms, precious few of which most astute observers might consider…
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Why beer’s social conscience is not without consumer risk – comment
As the saying goes, opinions are like earlobes, everybody’s got ‘em. (Or, at least, I think it’s something like that;…