Comments on: Tired of extreme beers? http://appellationbeer.com/blog/tired-of-extreme-beers/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:54:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stan Hieronymus http://appellationbeer.com/blog/tired-of-extreme-beers/comment-page-1/#comment-14633 Stan Hieronymus Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:37:30 +0000 http://appellationbeer.com/blog/?p=134#comment-14633 Thanks for the details, Lew. Now I'm looking forward to it even more. Not that it isn't still our fault, but in talking to a beer store owner the other day I was reminded that many of his customers are looking for new, exciting, etc. (I've installed a special device on my keyboard that shocks me when I type the word that begins and ends with an e and has an 'x' in there.) So I guess there could be economic consequences for a brewer wanting to get a new drink-by-the-pint beer rolling - but it also seems to me that those beers are still doing awfully well. Now I'll go back to looking forward to the story - I always love a good Hegelian conclusion - and write something nice about a helles. Thanks for the details, Lew. Now I’m looking forward to it even more.

Not that it isn’t still our fault, but in talking to a beer store owner the other day I was reminded that many of his customers are looking for new, exciting, etc. (I’ve installed a special device on my keyboard that shocks me when I type the word that begins and ends with an e and has an ‘x’ in there.)

So I guess there could be economic consequences for a brewer wanting to get a new drink-by-the-pint beer rolling – but it also seems to me that those beers are still doing awfully well.

Now I’ll go back to looking forward to the story – I always love a good Hegelian conclusion – and write something nice about a helles.

]]> By: Lew Bryson http://appellationbeer.com/blog/tired-of-extreme-beers/comment-page-1/#comment-14621 Lew Bryson Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:32:09 +0000 http://appellationbeer.com/blog/?p=134#comment-14621 Good to see that you're so eager to read my as-yet-unpublished piece that you neglected to even mention what that piece is about! A bit of clarification for your readers: the next issue of BeerAdvocate Magazine is ALL about extreme beers. When the call for article ideas went out to the writers, I responded by suggesting a contrarian piece, a single counter-balance to an extreme beer orgy. I asked brewers to consider what extreme beer meant for the brewer, the drinker, and the "movement." Some of them ranted and raved -- which makes good reading -- and some of them were quite opinionated, but in the end we really came to a Hegelian thesis-antithesis-synthesis kind of conclusion on the value of extreme beer (great resolution, BTW). But it looks like the main complaint of the ranting raving brewers is that they're making great beers that people drink pint after pint of, and growing the base of craft beer drinkers, and penetrating the distribution channels to get craft beer into whole new markets...and the extreme beers get all the press. Our fault, Stan, our fault...but you knew that. Good to see that you’re so eager to read my as-yet-unpublished piece that you neglected to even mention what that piece is about! A bit of clarification for your readers: the next issue of BeerAdvocate Magazine is ALL about extreme beers. When the call for article ideas went out to the writers, I responded by suggesting a contrarian piece, a single counter-balance to an extreme beer orgy. I asked brewers to consider what extreme beer meant for the brewer, the drinker, and the “movement.” Some of them ranted and raved — which makes good reading — and some of them were quite opinionated, but in the end we really came to a Hegelian thesis-antithesis-synthesis kind of conclusion on the value of extreme beer (great resolution, BTW).

But it looks like the main complaint of the ranting raving brewers is that they’re making great beers that people drink pint after pint of, and growing the base of craft beer drinkers, and penetrating the distribution channels to get craft beer into whole new markets…and the extreme beers get all the press. Our fault, Stan, our fault…but you knew that.

]]> By: Loren http://appellationbeer.com/blog/tired-of-extreme-beers/comment-page-1/#comment-14617 Loren Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:49:02 +0000 http://appellationbeer.com/blog/?p=134#comment-14617 What's sad is the post by Lew on BA linking Tomme's blog and Teri's reply to Lew had little, if any, discussion! And it was undoubtedly a turning point (or it will be soon) in the brewing mindsets to come. I think. Extremely talented brewers push existing boundaries. That's the bottom line. Cheers! What’s sad is the post by Lew on BA linking Tomme’s blog and Teri’s reply to Lew had little, if any, discussion! And it was undoubtedly a turning point (or it will be soon) in the brewing mindsets to come. I think.

Extremely talented brewers push existing boundaries. That’s the bottom line.

Cheers!

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