1) Is there a craft beer bubble? Minnesota brewers say there’s room for everyone, but some taprooms face uncertainty 2) How Fair State Brewing Hit Bankruptcy, and How It Plans to Fight Through It 3) Craft Beer Has Been Flat for Eight Years, and Other Notes 4 What we’ve gained and what we’ve lost in … Read more
Strong Rope Brewery in Brooklyn sends a message A programming note: Looking at the calendar, I see that Christmas and New Year’s Day fall on Mondays, so no Monday links here until Jan. 8. The year about to end will be the first one, with the exception of Covid-depressed 2020, that the sum of beers … Read more
Last week the (well, my) question was: What now? This week the question is: Where Are We Now? In this case, Dr. J Jackson-Beckham’s take on the state of social advocacy work in craft beer. Make time to read this. Please. You might also enjoy IPA still travels well. So not only does it work … Read more
In the wine world, when talking about grapes, it is only a “matter of time until the notion of typicity comes up.” Of course, wine is more dependent on a singular ingredient than beer. D’oh. But there is more to wine than grapes, and talking about typicity gets quickly complicated. Immerse yourself, if you will, … Read more
Chances are that I could plug these elements into an AI tool and generate a blog post. Instead, I am going to leave it to you — not to hand it off to AI, but to assemble it yourself. 1) “To grow again craft is going to have to find incremental opportunities, that’s in terms … Read more