The words of Fred Eckhardt.
“And it isn’t ever going to be the same . . . I’m glad of that.”
Jay Shevek has posted a new trailer for “Beer Pioneers” at Facebook.
It’s wonderful. Make sure to watch to the end.
To read more about the upcoming documentary:
– The video (same as above) on Facebook.
– The Beer Pioneers fan page on Facebook.
– The Beer Pioneers website (outside of Facebook).
The assistant managing editor in charge of being cranky at the last newspaper where I worked used to have a note posted on a bulletin board in his office: “All boldface is no boldface.”
For instance, consider just one entry today at beernews.org. Four more rare beers, including one (Brooklyn Sorachi Ace) brewed with now-rare hops. Good breweries all; undoubtedly good beers. And even if we never taste these beers good things may result — when I was at Stone Brewing a few months ago brewmaster Mitch Steele and I talked about how much he learns during one of these collaborative projects.
But I can’t help but remember that quote attributed to Goethe (though I suspect it was made up). At some point being rare ceases to be rare.
I’m taking my time reading Hops and Glory, enjoying each page and reading some of them twice. So it may be a while before you get a review out of me. You’ll find early returns at the link above, as well as Stephen Beaumont’s take here.
I’m a little surprised that nobody has mentioned (though in fairness Adrian Tierney-Jones sort of does in passing) this most interesting statement:
“(Eighteenth century) IPA was more similar to a modern filtered and pasteurized beer than it was to traditional cask ale.”
Given a certain predisposition among beer lovers that filtration and pasteurization are modern and bad and that Brown and Martyn Cornell have established everything your mother taught you about IPA is wrong mighty interesting statement indeed.
How’s this for thinking/drinking local?
The July/August issue of Draft magazine, now online and presumably on the newsstands, includes a list of 50 beers you can only drink in the states where they are brewed.
You’ll also find details of our romp through Texas pit barbecue heaven last April. And yes, we really did see one of the workers at Smitty’s Market set his boot on fire.
We’re headed into Yellowstone National Park, then on to Grand Teton, so I’m not expecting to post here the rest of this month.
Don’t worry about us. We’ve got beer from Grand Teton Brewing and Snake River Brewing to get us through the thirsty moments.
See you in July.