Inspired by the results, she hit the pavement with her Persian Blue Lager and Sumac Gose, now on shelves and menus and in shops in New York and Washington, D.C. Tabatabai was born to Iranian immigrants and began homebrewing to recreate the kind of beer her grandfather made for her family in Iran before alcohol was banned. Known for: Classic styles reimagined with Middle Eastern ingredientsĪ post shared by Born in Iran, Brewed in NY Zahra Tabatabai launched Back Home Beer in Brooklyn in 2021, the brand’s compelling backstory drew people in the beer made them stay. “I love that is committed to these traditional lagers and just perfecting them.” Back Home Beer | Brooklyn, New York “I think beer had a big maximalism phase, and I love seeing folks pull it back and just focus on quality,” says Ash Croce, a Brooklyn-based writer who’s also worked in the trade. Fava and Allan brew on an authentic Czech-made tankpub system with side-pour taps, and learned the Czech art of lager serving on-site at a Pilsner Urquell program to boldly focus on just two beers: pale lager and dark lager. That trailblazing spirit is also applied to the beers at Sacred Profane.
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Allan is also known for having sparked craft beer’s own #MeToo movement and following that up with an ongoing initiative encouraging breweries to install meaningful codes of conduct.
Both are preceded by their reputations for making excellent beer and eschewing fads. Enter Sacred Profane, a minimalist brewery born from founders Michael Fava and Brienne Allan’s unmatched dedication to Czech-style lagers. Many beer drinkers now look to the satisfying simplicity of time-honored styles. “ is a great tinkerer of recipe and process, borrowing hazy-juicy tricks for his crisp beers and vice versa, dialing them in to exactly where he wants them.” Sacred Profane Brewing | Biddeford, MaineĬan to know: The only two cans, Pale Lager and Dark LagerĪ post shared by 𝚂𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙵𝙰𝙽𝙴 craft beer has become crowded: with breweries, with options, with adjuncts within those options. Joe Stange, managing editor of Craft Beer & Brewing magazine, asserts that although the West Coast IPA is currently enjoying a resurgence, North Park continues to set the standard for the style. Before opening the brewery, McNair’s Hop-Fu! IPA became the single most award-winning homebrew recipe in history, and he’s extended that same touch with the brewery’s many IPA substyles. The brewery took the Brewery of the Year award (for breweries producing 2,000–5,000 barrels annually) at 2022’s Great American Beer Festival, and has been collaborating with fellow hype breweries, putting them on menus as far away as New York. North Park opened in 2016, but acclaim for founder and head brewer Kelsey McNair’s beers has recently reached a fever pitch. North Park Beer Company | San Diego, California They’ve got to do something really special just to keep the lights on, let alone excite jaded connoisseurs. Breweries now face more competition than ever. The pandemic arrived, impacting drinking preferences while throwing down a gauntlet for breweries: Adapt-in the form of more distribution, more classics, more experiments, more new categories (like hard seltzer and RTD cocktails)-or eat dust. Life’s really come at us fast since then.
Our last look at which breweries best capture the craft beer zeitgeist was in February 2020. So, if you want to keep track of what breweries to pay attention to, you’ve got to take craft beer’s temperature every few years. Some of those styles succeed (oh, hey, New England IPA ), some sputter out (R.I.P., brut IPA ), some that were previously discarded find themselves re-embraced (cheers, rauchbier ).
Hundreds of breweries still open every year. While craft beer’s initial boom may be in the rearview, it still moves at a breakneck pace.
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