Bart Watson

A few decades ago, Larry Bell would show up at parties with bottles of beer he brewed in his basement. Some people were leery of this self-described stoner’s early editions of bootleg booze. Bell doesn’t blame them. “There was a lot of bad beer in the beginning,” Bell tells...

A big St. Patrick's Day cheers to the Brewers Association, a trade association representing small and independent American craft brewers, which reported good news for the craft beer industry Monday. According to the association, craft breweries took 7.8 percent volume of the total U.S. beer...