Jeff Alworth

Beer Bible 2nd Edition out now! Buy your copy today! Email: [email protected].

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

As of Monday, Jan 6 (make of that what you will), I will no longer be posting at this site. I won’t be deleting the account, which goes back 16 years, but I can no longer support Elon and provide content for his propaganda site.

You can find me: @beervana.bsky.social

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

Responding to a recent overproduction of hops, U.S. growers scaled back the acres they cultivated in 2024 in dramatic fashion. Here’s a summary of how that affected the states and individual varieties—with graphs and tables. 

https://t.co/J311M6Dh9S

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

Responding to a recent overproduction of hops, U.S. growers scaled back the acres they cultivated in 2024 in dramatic fashion. Here’s a summary of how that affected the states and individual varieties—with graphs and tables. 

https://t.co/J311M6Dh9S

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

@wcbeergeek @16TonsBeer It’s the same price as beer! Most of the NA stuff I like is a lot cheaper.

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

Opening the bidding here…

“I just don’t see non-alc becoming much of a market. If it ever reaches 5% of the beer market, I will be shocked. I predict it tops out at 2%.”

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

2024 was a year of mixed signals and confusing trends. In this year-end post, I review the major themes, positive, negative, and just weird. And then I finish with a flourish of almost certainly bad predictions!
https://t.co/MsS3ZyfK5m

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

@wcbeergeek @16TonsBeer I love the taste of beer. I prefer hop water to NA beer, even the good stuff (Guinness 0.0 excepted) because it’s just not the same.

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

@16TonsBeer We’ll see! For at least three years we’ve been waiting for this predicted breakthrough, and yet even on its tiny base NA is only growing ~30% YOY. Once that base gets a little bigger it will slow.

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

2024 was a year of mixed signals and confusing trends. In this year-end post, I review the major themes, positive, negative, and just weird. And then I finish with a flourish of almost certainly bad predictions!
https://t.co/MsS3ZyfK5m

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

In recent years, many people have decided to spend the first month of the year on an alcohol hiatus. That’s not great for breweries—and holing up isn’t great for people, either. So this year, whether you’re drinking or not, try #PubJanuary instead.

https://t.co/59aLNXdPjl

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

@TheBeerFather @southstarbrew @atjbeer We know that no American ever went broke laying blame on an English king.

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

In the 18th and 19th century, Brits started using “merry” as a synonym for “drunk.” The state of merriment was considered base and vulgar by the upper classes. So in 1932, King George V started wishing his subjects “Happy Christmas.” We stuck with “merry.”
https://t.co/2KCQ5jj4SJ

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

@southstarbrew I will take these as anti-Royalist rogues and my kind of breweries. (Or ones overly influence by America.)

All the Brits I know say “happy,” but there could be sampling errors involved.

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

This is a fantastic report on Belgian beer (in Belgium) by @Will_Hawkes. It is full on details I understood only fuzzily. You’ll probably learn a thing or two as well:

https://t.co/0UosVnohCc

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

In lieu of a year-end best-photos post, today I’m mixing it up. Here are nine photographs from 2024 with a mini-essay describing why I chose it. Maybe a picture with a hundred words is worth more than a picture with none at all.
https://t.co/ZchVJfRCHl

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

@Rlwegner I am touchy because our city comes in for a ton of shit and your lead comment was how this was a very dumb post. Spicy comments get spicy reactions.

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

So people who “know” Portland from Portlandia should probably stfu when opining about it. It’s always been a blue-collar, working class town with lots of grit. I’ve actually lived in Wisconsin and Milwaukee and Portland share more than a passing resemblance.

[Reggie Wegner @Rlwegner]

@WIbeerbaron @Beervana @HHillsBeer 1. Your Portland is showing or something, that’s not a dive bar. We can argue endlessly about what makes a dive bar (very subjective), but that’s not a dive bar even by objective standards.

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

@Rlwegner In terms of the beer they serve, yes. You’re not going to see more than one domestic lager on tap in a bar in this town. But hey, you keep telling me about my city.

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

@Rlwegner @stephenkallao @WIbeerbaron @HHillsBeer “This is the dumbest thing I have ever read about a thing I have never seen.”

One wonders why Twitter is dying.

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

Unexpected news—real, hard news—broke this week. Each one of three items was interesting, but they seem to have an even greater force when lined up together. Perhaps, if we look at them in just the right way, we can even discern a lesson.
https://t.co/nJNyWWv833

[Jeff Alworth @Beervana]

Unexpected news—real, hard news—broke this week. Each one of three items was interesting, but they seem to have an even greater force when lined up together. Perhaps, if we look at them in just the right way, we can even discern a lesson.
https://t.co/nJNyWWv833