Beer is the world’s most consumed alcoholic beverage by volume, and the global consumption landscape in 2025 reflected both the continued dominance of major markets and significant shifts in where growth was coming from.
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- Beer Brewing
Craft Beer Trends 2025: What’s Brewing in the Industry This Year
by John Brewster 3 minutes readThe craft beer industry in 2025 looked meaningfully different from the explosive growth years of the early 2010s.
Sour beer went from a niche curiosity to one of the most significant growth categories in craft brewing over the past two decades.
- Beer Brewing
A Brief History of Monastic Brewing Traditions: From Medieval Abbeys to Modern Trappists
by John Brewster 4 minutes readThe connection between monasteries and brewing stretches back over a thousand years and represents one of the most sustained traditions of craft production in Western history.
The word “artisanal” gets applied to everything from craft beer to supermarket bread, to the point where it means almost nothing in marketing contexts.
- Beer Brewing
Mastering Fermentation Temperatures: What Happens at Each Phase of Beer Brewing
by John Brewster 4 minutes readFermentation temperature is the single most influential variable a homebrewer controls after pitching yeast — more than water chemistry, grain bill adjustments, or hop timing.
- Beginner Guides
7 Essential Homebrewing Steps: Beginner’s Guide to Brewing Your First Successful Batch
by John Brewster 6 minutes readBrewing your first beer at home comes down to five hours of active work spread across two to three weeks. The process is: boil malted sugar with hops, cool it, add yeast, wait two weeks, bottle with priming sugar, wait …