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Dave Berry, that eternal fountain of wit, once quipped, “Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”

We agree!

For our first Beer Issue, we have pulled apart beer by its four main ingredients—water, hops, malt and yeast—and then lent a particular eye (taste bud?) toward how each of these fundamentals are evolving, and how the industry is changing. Roger Worthington gives us an education about harvesting hops (pg. 12), and Larry Sidor from Crux Fermentation Project explains how they factor malts into their bold tastes (pg. 14), and GoodLife predicts that cans are the vessel of choice for the fully evolved beer drinker (pg. 19).

Find all of our Beer Issue stories HERE.

This article appears in The Beer Issue.

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The Beer Issue

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
March 13, 2014

<h1>The Beer Issue</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />March 13, 2014</p> <p>Dave Berry, that eternal fountain of wit, once quipped, "Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."</p> <p>We agree!</p> </p> <p>For our first Beer Issue, we have pulled apart beer by its four main ingredients&mdash;water, hops, malt and yeast&mdash;and then lent a particular eye (taste bud?) toward how each of these fundamentals are evolving, and how the industry is changing. Roger Worthington gives us an education about harvesting hops (pg. 12), and Larry Sidor from Crux Fermentation Project explains how they factor malts into their bold tastes (pg. 14), and GoodLife predicts that cans are the vessel of choice for the fully evolved beer drinker (pg. 19).</p> </p> <p>Find all of our Beer Issue stories <a href="http://www.bendsource.com/bend/ArticleArchives?tag=Beer%20Issue" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/special-issues-and-guides/the-beer-issue-2318320/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=26765&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/special-issues-and-guides/the-beer-issue-2318320/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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