MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 03.09.15 Last week I promised to find links related to actually drinking beer. Plenty to choose from if you pay a bit of attention. No Man Loves Life Like Him That’s Growing Old. “The back room and bar were heaving when we arrived and squeezed into the hatched snug on the … Read more
The Barth-Haas Group has released the 2013-2014 Barth Report, which provides both perspective and new data relative to the recent chatter about hop shortages (you might also read this). However, so far we don’t really know much more than in February. What’s important is not if the price for some varieties, even one like Cascade, … Read more
Boak & Bailey put out the suggestion: “Let’s Go Long in September.” (Links to longform posts are here.) I love the concept and had hoped to post something original about Grodziskie here today. But I keep finding new information, and there’s constantly one more fact to check. So maybe that will a topic for “go … Read more
Quick. Name three brands that have driven national awareness of craft1 beer. Given that Boston Beer Co., Sierra Nevada Brewing and New Belgium Brewing emerged as the Craft Big Three credit must go to Samuel Adams Boston Lager, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and New Belgium Fat Tire. But these aren’t the brands leading growth for … Read more
Is this just another sign of the globalization of beer? The Washington Post has a story about “Belgium’s upstart innovators,” which of course prominently features De Struise Brouwers — a lightning rod when you talk about “new wave” brewers. In the story, Wendy Littlefield of Vanberg & Dewulf, one of the first companies to import … Read more