Beer Paws News and Posts — Nebraska Brewing Company

Help kill anti-craft beer legislation. These are trying times. Protests, demonstrations, heated political arguments. But even in this age of division, there’s one thing everyone, regardless of political affiliation can agree on - craft beer is awesome. But for Nebraskans, the right to fantastic microbrews is under attack in the form of Legislative Bill 632. Introduced by Senator Tyson Larson, this bill would prevent craft brewers, including many close friends and partners of Beer Paws, from opening retail or taprooms offsite from where they brew. This is bad for lots of reasons: First, it means eliminating or severely restricting Nebraskans’...

Great beer doesn’t happen by accident. Or does it? Most of the brewery partners Beer Paws works with pride themselves on their recipes, usually taking years of tweaking, adjusting and experimentation to find just the right mix. But sometimes, greatness happens by chance. That’s what happened with Nebraska Brewing Company’s flagship brew Cardinal Pale Ale. Way back in 2005, then homebrewer Paul Kavulak was trying to brew a pale ale with a nose of bright Cascade Hops. Repeated experiments weren’t yielding the results he wanted, and after a particularly stressful day, he dumped an entire bag of Cascade leaf hops...