If you’re visiting a city and want to sample the local beers all at once, you seek out a craft beer bar with dozens of taps. But if you’re in Denver, you go to Number Thirty Eight, which has elevated the traditional craft beer bar to a craft beer hall.

BrewDog is setting a new bar for sustainability in the beer industry by becoming the world’s first carbon-negative brewery. The Scotland-based brewery is now offsetting its carbon footprint—which was 68,000 tons in 2019—by removing twice as much carbon from the atmosphere as it emits each year.

In mid-June, pandemic cabin fever got the best of me and I decided to cautiously set out on a two-week road trip. My itinerary included 10 brewery stops throughout three states: Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.

Tourists visit New Zealand for its incredible landscapes made famous by the Lord of the Rings and to seek out its grassy sauvignon blancs, not beer—but that’s about to change. A recent report by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research states that New Zealand has more breweries (over 200) per capita than Britain, the US, and Australia.

Natalie Cilurzo is the co-owner of Russian River Brewing, one of the most successful independently owned breweries in the United States. I sat down with Natalie to discuss what it’s like being a female leader in the industry, the challenges she has faced over the years, and how we can close the gender gap in craft beer.

Best known for its River Walk and The Alamo, San Antonio hasn’t exactly been at the top of most people’s travel bucket lists. If you live out of state, chances are the only reason you visited was because a convention brought you there. But all of that is changing. The 300-year-old city (yes, it’s the same age as New Orleans) is evolving into a vibrant cultural destination celebrated for its culinary boldness, not just its historic missions.

Nile Zacherle of Mad Fritz is starting his own hop movement, crafting hyperlocal beers with a winemaker’s Mad perspective.

According to a 2018 report by Forbes, Boise is the fastest-growing city in America, and the local craft brewery scene has been working hard to keep pace.

Imagine a place that’s said to have been too wild for Al Capone. That was Ogden. A tiny town in Utah that sits 40 miles north of Salt Lake City, it was once considered one of the most dangerous cities in America.

Donna Katz, an Australian winemaker based in Napa Valley, has cracked open the craft beer market, welcoming several previously alienated demographics with G’s, her line of hard ginger beer.

An hour before I spoke with Amy Levin on the phone, she had received the good news that the evacuation order for her hometown of Windsor had been lifted. She, along with her two sons and two dogs, had been gone from their home in Sonoma wine country for five days while her husband Aron Levin, a Windsor fire captain, fought to save it.

Since 2016, big news has been brewing in Napa and the wait is finally over. Just in time for BottleRock Napa Valley, the famed Stone Brewing of San Diego is opening its Napa location inside a 10,000 square foot, 141-year-old stone building on the Napa River.