Let’s hear it for beermaking frivolity
So I was looking for this quote from Fred Eckhardt:
“Winemakers are so serious. Beermakers are frivolous.”
Which sent me into my archives — deep, this one was stored on a portable drive and in a version of Microsoft Word old enough I had to “import” the story. Once I’d gone to that trouble I decided to post this article I wrote for All About Beer magazine in 2001.
Another line I’d forgotten: Michael Jackson described homebrewers as the “the shock troops of the beer revolution.”
Also note: Maureen Ogle and Charlie Papazian continue to add to their posts about the early days of the American Homebrewers Association.
Posted: April 12th, 2009 under Beer culture.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Thanks for this! I added a link to it in the last entry of my series about creation of the AHA, which also contains a link to your piece about Zymurgy.