Technology

Devices that monitor fermentation in real time and apps that make data analysis a snap can help improve quality and output. They can also save breweries money, reducing the chances for error.

Be skeptical. Do your due diligence, diligently. Boost the odds that your new brewhouse will actually reach your brewery, and your fermentor purchase will improve your future—not tank it.

Breweries around the country are implementing programs, technology, and initiatives that aim to make their businesses more sustainable and to have a positive environmental impact.

If constant change is the new normal, brewers must learn to continuously flex and adapt by developing fine-tuned abilities to sense, shape, and respond to each key consumer trend and market development.

This isn't a deep dive into what Bitcoin or blockchain technology is (you can Google that) but an examination of how cryptocurrency could impact the craft-beer industry.