Currently North Star is brewing a fresh batch of porter. It is mid afternoon on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 and the smell of mashed malts permeates the atmosphere at the North Star Craft Brewery, and no doubt throughout the Shasta Gateway Industrial Park. What a wonderful smell the conversion of complex carbs to simple s

Taken from the 75yearsofbeer.org website:Celebrate tonight!This year we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the modification of the Volstead Act on April 7, 1933, which allowed beer to legally flow once again in the United States of America. Not to be confused with the repeal of prohibition on De

Currently, hops are very difficult and expensive to procure. However, via generosity of the "Boston Beer Company" (aka, Samuel Adams), the North Star Craft Brewery has been awarded 284 pounds of the British Kent Goldings hops at last years market price.Hats off/on, salute, whatever to the Boston Beer Company.