You know that thing where the time machine doesn’t drop you exactly where you expected? We departed Auckland late Sunday evening and arrived in Los Angeles not quite early enough Sunday afternoon to continue our planned journey home. In other words, we missed our connecting flight and did not enjoy the next 20 hours all … Read more
Yes, there is a lot of IPA out there, but as the photo at the top illustrates there were beers of many colors on the best of show table last week at Copa Baja in Mexicali, Mexico. And 17 of the 24 beers on tap at El Sume (where the bottle list is also pretty … Read more
Via the Oregon Hops & Brewing Archives (see below) As always, here you will find a hodge podge of links to stories that recently struck my fancy, most often during the past week. To call it That Was The (Beer) Week That Was, as I did last week, suggests it might be a more complete … Read more
Jeff Alworth uses the term “craft beer” just once in his Beervana beer in review post, and that only to describe a bar. Dave Infante totally leans into those two words in tandem at VinePair. A headline that declares it was “a very bad year” for “craft beer” accurately describes the story that follows. It … Read more
Jeff Alworth wrote about something new he’d like to see develop in 2022: American lager. He started with a question from Ben Howe at Otherlands Brewing. “(It) feels a bit strange to be making a perfect recreation of a German beer. I wonder what an American lager would look like if we developed a tradition … Read more