When the American craft beer movement got its start in the late 1970s, the spotlight was on ales, not lagers. Those first craft brewers set out to be everything the country’s giant breweries were not. Since the big guys “owned” the production of golden lagers, which had become insipid, mass-produced “yellow beers,” the renegade brewers [...]

Dogfish Head/Victory/Stone Collaboration, Saison du BUFF (6.8 percent ABV) Delaware, Pennsylvania and California What happens when three of the country’s most successful breweries get together and brew a beer together? A saison brewed with a boatload of herbs. The Saison du BUFF is going to be a beer a lot of people may not like [...]

Last week, the agency took an even bigger step by partnering with Victory Brewing to create the new With Love Philadelphia XOXO Victory Summer Love Ale. The agency and the brewery announced its release at an invitation-only New York press event featuring Victory brewmaster Bill Covaleski. They’ll continue the campaign by distributing thousands of branded [...]

The history of women in the making of beer, on the other hand, is another matter. Put out the call for a roundtable of women brewers hereabouts, and, well, all you’ll need is a small booth. If that. So in the mammoth beer hall of Downingtown’s Victory Brewing last week, it was refreshing to encounter [...]