Stop me if you’ve read this one before

MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 08.17.15

The saga of Biscuit continues.
It starts with a somebody at Sun King Brewing in Indianapolis causing “Tom Brady Sux” to be printed on the bottom of 20,000 cans of beer and goes from there. Sun King does not sell its beer beyond the borders of Indiana, but it is not a small brewery. Oskar Blues Brewing, of course, operates breweries in two states and ships beer all over. But this is definitely not the way to act corporate. And for many people defining what constitutes “craft” includes considering what it is not. (There’s also all this.) [Via Eater]

Danish farmhouse ale.
“So what happened to all this brewing? That’s difficult to say. Most places it had died out already at the time the responses were written. Per Kølster found an old woman on northern Funen who was still brewing in 2005, so probably the tradition is not yet entirely dead, but that’s the only sign I’ve ever seen of it still being alive anywhere.” [Via Larsblog]

Craft Creep.
Practical thoughts. [Via Are You Tasting the Pith]

Inside the world’s most prestigious water-tasting competition.
Started reading, couldn’t stop. [Via The Week]

How ‘Rock Star’ Became a Business Buzzword.
Remember the discussion of brewers as rock stars? Not looking like a compliment these days. [Via New York Times]

Interactive Map Shows America’s Regional Beer Preferences According to Twitter.
Twitter maps show Americans’ beer preferences.
Sorry there aren’t more links this week, but sometimes I look at the accumulated headlines and think, “Haven’t I read this before?
[Via First We Feast and Phys.org]

But there’s still Twitter

and …

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