Beer links: Treasures from Fred, and what’s this about Indie Beer?

MONDAY BEER AND WINE LINKS, MUSING 2.01.16

An #mssfred gem ~ original hand cut charts for Mashing Notebook.
Tiah Edmunson-Morton has begun posting images and documents from Fred Eckhardt’s papers. For instance, there are the original construction paper paste-ups for “Mashing for the North American Home Brewer,” an article that was first published in the Amateur Enologist in fall 1973. And a report written by Charles Coury about Cartwright Brewing, reviewing his experiences and lessons learned, as well as forecasting great future successes. Oops. [Via Oregon Hops & Brewing Archives]

Selling Grant’s Farm.
Definitely one for Pocket. Very long and St. Louis and Busch family centric. Just so you know. “Since his death, the empire that Gussie built has been dismantled, piece by piece. The brewery sold the Cardinals. In-Bev swallowed the brewery. Busch Gardens and SeaWorld were cast off. Grant’s Farm is all that’s left. Soon, it too will be sold. The court will decide to whom, starting on March 28. That would have been Gussie’s 117th birthday. When the beer baron wrote in his will that ‘it is impossible for me to anticipate all of the circumstances which may arise in the future,’ he couldn’t have been more right.” [Via St. Louis magazine]

Brasserie de la Senne — A Renaissance Grows in Brussels.
“But as the pendulum swings, many newer Belgian brewers are questioning the country’s traditional ways of brewing, eager to pave a path of their own. Yvan de Baets is one of those brewers.” A bit of disclosure: Yvan is a friend and wrote the foreward for Brewing With Wheat. [Via Good Beer Hunting]

Craft is dead. Now we drink Indie Beer.
Once again this week, I broke links into business related and other. This one bleeds into business, but it is also about the relationship between consumers, producers and beer itself. It is also interesting to see the tearm “Indie Beer” crrep into the conversation. Sam Calagione at Dogfish Head Craft Brewery has been using it for quite a while. [Via San Diego Reader]

On Wine. A Tragedy.
“Please do not assume that your new found knowledge is somehow absolute. Don’t assume that your finely honed palate is better than another’s. Definitely do not assume that your ideal wine is everyone’s ideal wine. It isn’t. We all have very different palates, cultural histories, childhood memories and favorite meals. We are not the same. There is no perfect wine. There is no right wine.” [Via Huffington Post]

THE BUSINESS SECTION

The Future of Craft Beer, According to Cicerone Founder.
Eno Sarris storifies a series of tweets by Cicerone founder Ray Daniels, one of the early ones being “But with huge brewer population, I believe fundamentals of brewery business change for most.” [Via BeerGraphs]

Numbers and Context Behind Beer’s ‘Next Frontier’
“On average, more than 93 percent of production from breweries making more than 15,000 barrels annually is distributed at the wholesale level and 42.7 percent of that beer travels out of state.” [Via This is Why I’m Drunk]

Short’s beer coming to Chicago as brewery ends Michigan-only stance.
So much for “Michigan Only, Michigan Forever.” “We’ve always thought Michigan could consume all the beer we could create, but in the last couple of years so many breweries have opened and Michigan has such a vibrant scene. The question became, did we want to make less beer or go into more markets?” [Via Chicago Tribune]

THIS IS WHAT I DID SATURDAY

There are 42 beer categories at the Minnesota Mashout homebrew competition. There were five judges for best of show. You do the math. Stewards needed to fill 210 glasses. That took longer than it did to pick a winner.