10 Cool Facts About Craft Beer
Since The Half Wall offers 76 craft draft beers and over 100 bottled craft beers, we thought you might like to learn some interesting facts about craft beer!*
- The most popular craft beer style in America is the India Pale Ale. India Pale Ales are a hoppy beer brewed with mostly pale malts for a more equal malt-to-hop ratio.
- Cascade is the favorite hop varietal used by most craft brewers.
- For the best flavor, craft beer should never be tasted from a shaker pint, a straight-sided pint glass that does a poor job of highlighting a beer’s flavor but is commonly used to serve it.
- An American craft brewer is definedas a small, independent, and traditional producer of beer. Craft breweries are small in production size, independent in ownership, and traditional in brewing ingredients and fermentation methods.
- Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Barack Obama have all brewed beer in their homes while serving in office.
- The three main ingredients in craft beer, besides water, should be malted barley, hops, and yeast.
- Beer is good for your bones! It contains high levels of silicon, a substance that promotes strong bones.
- There were a total of 2,822 craft breweries in the United States as of 2013.
- California, Washington, Colorado, and Oregon have more craft breweries than any other states.
- Most Americans live within 10 miles of a craft brewery!