What’s different or unique about American Craft beers compared to beer brewed everywhere else around the world?
American brewing is like American cooking – it’s rooted in tradition, but endlessly creative. We don’t have to stick with a script or a style – we can go off on whatever tangent our imaginations take us to. What’s interesting to see is that America was the laughing stock of the beer world 20 years ago, but now it’s the undisputed leader in craft brewing. I just got back from Italy, which now has 200 craft breweries. The American influence is unmistakable. 10. Did you ever come up with a beer idea that just didn’t work out as well as it did in theory? Not yet, but we’ve certainly sometimes been over-enthusiastic about some things. When we first started brewing Blanche de Brooklyn, our Belgian-style witbier, we added a bit too much orange peel and coriander. As it turns out, when these things are overused, your beer can turn out smelling like hot dogs. We got much better and that beer became among our most award-winning beers, but it didn’t start off that way. We’ve taken some pretty big
