by Peter Hanley | Jan 13, 2018 | Beer, Mad Hops, News
It’s been a while since our last blog post and I’ve been thinking about where to start. So I thought I’d share a couple cool things that happened at the end of 2017 that have had a big impact. Beer Advocate Magazine ran a terrific article on Mad Hops, a whole page! It...
by Peter Hanley | Aug 4, 2017 | Beer, Mad Hops
A look at the beer fridge at the local convenience store shows how completely light beer has taken over the beer industry. Did you know that 6 of the top 7 best-selling beer brands in America are light beers? Only Budweiser snuck in at #4, with Miller High Life and...
by Peter Hanley | Jul 6, 2017 | Beer, Mad Hops, News
A lot of people today drink light beer because they’re counting calories, but many of them find low-cal beer a bit watered-down and tasteless. They may prefer the taste of craft beer, but a typical IPA or Pale Ale has 200 or more calories! That’s why Mad Hops Flavored...
by Peter Hanley | Jun 15, 2017 | Beer, Mad Hops
Doing our thing at the Saratoga Springs Craft Beer Festival! Looks like we’re using Rolling Rock! In upstate NY we celebrate summer with a great sense of urgency; there’s only a small window for us after fighting off a long winter. Spring ends late and fall comes...
by Stephen Morse | Jun 6, 2017 | Beer, Mad Hops, News
In his feature article The Power Is Yours: Customizing the Drinker Experience, BeerAdvocate’s Bryan Roth explores the recent trend towards personalizing your beer-drinking experience. The explosion of new craft varieties has raised our expectations of how a beer...
by Stephen Morse | May 15, 2017 | Beer, Mad Hops, News
Beer comes in all sorts of different styles, each with its own unique ingredients. Unlike food products, brewers aren’t required to disclose much nutritional information. In fact, they don’t even have to know what’s in their products! But now a new FDA regulation...