Matt Sweeny (aka fattymattybrewing) is a graphic artist, website consultant, and writer who is passionate about local beer and hops. He grows hops in Wisconsin with his family, and has been brewing beer at home since 2003.
Two of the premier beer festivals this summer in the Madison, Wisconsin area are the Great Lakes Brewfest and the Great Taste of the Midwest.The Great Lakes Brewfest is on Saturday, September 15, 2012 and is located at the...
The Wisconsin Hop Exchange is proud to announce a Beer Release Party & WHEx Open House at the Great Dane Pub & Brewing Company on April 19, 2012 at 6pm at their downtown Madison brewpub on Doty...
Brewing Up a Community Hops Webinars to be held on the 3rd Saturdays of MARCH-APRIL-MAY
Dodgeville, WI--Simple Earth Hops (http://www.simpleearthhops.com/) announced today that Matt Sweeny is producing a series of commercial hops webinars called...
Currently, Wisconsin Dept of Revenue Statutes are being strictly interpreted into making it illegal to serve homebrew anywhere out of your home or farm.The American Homebrewers Association, Beer Barons of Milwaukee and other Madison groups have formed the Home...
Everyone knows that summertime is the time for beer events in Wisconsin. As Winter rolls through, local Madison area beer events may be hard to come by. This feature presents some local Wisconsin area beer events for your New Year...
The Wisconsin Hop Exchange (WHEx) is a new Midwest based cooperative business dedicated to providing hop growing members with agronomic, processing and marketing services. The goal of the coop is to become the most trusted source of quality hop...
The Wisconsin Hop Exchange (WHEx) is a cooperative, designed to assist hop growers in producing a quality product and creating new business partners with local hops consumers. WHEx was founded on the belief that the most sustainable approach to...
This was a good week for Matt Sweeny of Simple Earth Hops and for John Blaska of the Wisconsin Hops Exchange. On Septemeber 27, 2011, Matt Sweeny of Simple Earth Hops was interviewed by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl...
As more and more commercial hopyards pop up around the Madison, Wisconsin area, processing hops becomes a question for so many Midwest hop growers. This article gives note to just a few select hop growers and other hop businesses in...
With the summer coming to a close, there are still some great opportunities to sample different beers around Wisconsin. Beer festivals provide beer lovers with unique chances to taste many different kinds of beer with other craft beer drinkers...