MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 11.17.14
Which side are you on? More from the “Let There Be Beer” campaign, in which Ed Wray writes “There seems to be clear division between whether we should be promoting beer as a premium product or beer for mass consumption.” And, “So beer geeks, the line has been drawn: Which Side Are You On?” Ask a question, get an answer, I guess. A lot of them here, and plenty of back and forth. So many noteworthy comments I thought about making this week’s links/musing just links to them. Pull of a stool — it is worth the time.
[Via Ed’s Beer Site]
What Has Become of Our Beer? Tiah Edmunson-Morton at the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives has scanned in several late 1940s-early 1950s items she found in The Hopper: the hop grower’s magazine. The last quotes heavily from “TRUE, The Men’s Magazine” and is proof there was at least one beer geek in 1952. He talks about his first brush with beer on a farm in Stelton, New Jersey.
Later there is this: “A man who is a brewmaster at one of the ten largest breweries in the country said to me, ‘The beer we’re making today got no resemblance to the beer we put out after repeal in 1934 and ’35 and ’36. We were making a real beer then, like a pro-World War I beer, and you took a drink of it and got the taste of hops in the back of your throat. Your knew you were drinking a good glass of beer.'”
[Via Oregon Hops & Brewing Archives]
Supermarket boost for British hops. Tesco is the first British supermarket chain to sell a beer with the British Hop Association logo on it. The beer features East Kent Golding hops and the back label explains that the EKG variety’s parent was called Canterbury Whitebine and first grown in 1790. The publicity is good for British hop growers (an aside, Ali Capper tweeted it was a great week for UK hops at Brau Beviale), but ask yourself: “What is wrong with this picture?” Not to pick on Shepherd Neame, @MrJohnHumphreys, but geez, what’s with the clear glass? What hop aromas are you trying to showcase?
[Via Protz on Beer]
Illegal Beer Is Brewing a Massive Following in Venezuela. Dozens of small breweries have sprung up in Venezuela over the past five years, and although selling these beers brewed in homes is illegal many do a brisk business with liquor stores and restaurants.
[Via Munchies]
On cellaring, a polite way of saying “forgetting.” I particularly like “The cabinet of all lost souls.”
[Via Community Beer Works]
Extreme Beer Judging. Pete Brown judges homebrew in Italy. For the record, when you judge homebrew competitions in the United States you put your name and email address on every sheet.
[Via Pete Brown]
A Master Sommelier Gives a Winery Tour. Finishing with a bit of levity. And because the only thing better than hearing beer types making fun of wine types is reading wine types making fun of wine types.
[Via HoseMaster of Wine]