Here we go again: Defining craft beer
A quick tip of the cap to Andy Crouch for a bit of looking behind the curtain, otherwise known as first-rate beer journalism. (And, as Alan will tell you, I’m a curmudgeon who doesn’t rush to such judgment.)
OK, Crouch doesn’t get an “A” for headline writing — “The Brewers Association’s Quiet War On Blue Moon, Leinenkugels, Goose Island, and Maybe Even Elysian, New Belgium, and Your Brewery …” is a mouthful — but please go read the post.
You and I might feel like we’ve beaten the “what is craft beer?” horse to death, but I’m big on knowing about the place where a beer is brewed. Of course, then I get to decide whether to call it a craft beer.
Posted: March 18th, 2009 under Beer culture.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Yeah, the headline got a bit garbled but with the Twitter/Facebook/RSS reader tie-ins, editing titles after the fact is next to impossible…
March 19th, 2009 at 9:18 am
[...] thanks to the invaluable Stan Hieronymus for pointing me there. Since Stan was put off by Andy’s headline, I should note that I am a [...]
March 19th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I think that makes me a curmudgeon who does rush to judgment… which actually sounds just about right!