Phil Leinhart, currently director of production at Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, will replace Randy Thiel as brewmaster.
Thiel is returning to his home state of Wisconsin to become director of quality control at the New Glarus Brewing in New Glarus.
Thiel has been at Ommegang since the brewery opened in 1997.
In 2004 he became the first […]

The current issue of Brew Your Own magazine offers tips from Americans and Belgians who brewer Belgian-inspired beers.
Interviewed are Tomme Arthur of Port Brewing/Lost Abbey, Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River Brewing, Randy Thiel of brewery Ommegang, Rob Tod and Jason Perkins of Allagash Brewing, Peter Bouckaert of New Belgium Brewing, Steven Pauwels of Bouevard Brewing […]

Harvest Moon Brewing in Belt, Mont., opened in 1997 and began brewing a beer it calls Beltian White shortly thereafter. That’s not a typo. Beltian, as in Belt, get it?
And it is brewed in the manner of a Belgian White Ale, or witbier, although apparently without any signature unmalted wheat.
It popped above the radar because […]

The San Francisco Chronicle offers a little love to David Keene and the venerable Toronado because the San Francisco pub/bier-cafe/multi-tap is turning 20 years old.
I wasn’t sure in which blog to put the link in, but I picked here because Keene’s devotion to Belgian-inspired beer surely has meant that those of us in far-flung parts […]

Bob Sylvester, who I met last year during the National Homebrewers Conference in Orlando, reports that his Saint Somewhere Brewing Co. in Tarpon Springs is about ready to start selling beer.
“We are up and running and making our debut at the Wazoo Beer Festival in Tampa FL on Aug. 4,” he writes. The first two […]