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But is ‘juicy’ a flavor?

March 9, 2017March 9, 2017

The best read post here, on an cumulative basis, is “Words to describe the beer you are tasting.” From nine years ago. Quite honestly, readers arrive via a search engine, read that post, check out nothing else here, and leave. The point is they are searching.

They might be better off forking over $16 (plus shipping) to buy their own Beer Flavor Map. You can read more about it here. It works like this: flavor is broken into three color-coded categories — Taste, Aroma and Mouthfeel. Within each there are sub-categories, so under Spicy you will find licorice, clove, cinnamon, etc.

What the Cryo?

March 6, 2017March 1, 2017

Cryo hops, hop powder, LupuLN2 If everybody’s Twitter feed looked like mine then Cryo Hops definitely would have been trending yesterday.

YCH Hops rolled out details about what are really multiple products. If you subscribe to the digital edition of Beer Advocate magazine you can read a story I wrote focused mostly on LupuLN2, referred to as lupulin powder before the trademarked name kicked in. I won’t rehash that here (update: now available online), except to repeat that it has plenty of brewers who have tried it very excited.

No beer links (here) this week

January 16, 2017

01.16.17

At the risk of alienating all of those thoroughly frustrated last June when tickets to see Hamilton in Chicago went on sale, we were among the lucky ones who were able to buy them at face value. Worth every penny, but it means I was otherwise occupied this past weekend and there are no links here. Of course, Boak & Bailey posted their typically diverse selections Saturday: News, Nuggets & Longreads 14 January 2017: Spain, Sheffield and Sober Island

And I do hope you saw these tweets during the week.

Sigh

@larsga That's the problem with being a beer historian: the need to speak eight or 10 languages. Fluently. And that doesn't include Sumerian

— Martyn Cornell (@zythophiliac) January 9, 2017

Not-Monday beer links: You happy now, Alan?

December 23, 2016

German hopyard - because dormancy matters

NOT-MONDAY BEER AND WINE LINKS, MUSING, 12.23.16

Monday I wrote that regular Monday beer links would be taking the next two Mondays off. That remains true, but after Alan McLeod complained and because there’s some good stuff you should be reading, a few it’s-not-Monday links before we head over the Mississippi River and through the wood (yes, I am aware it is a Thanksgiving poem) … If you still need a link fix tomorrow (Saturday) morning try Boak & Bailey’s News, Nuggets & Longreads. Happy holidays.

Father and son bond over beer at all 73 Iowa craft breweries.
This is a road movie waiting to be made. [Via Des Moines Register]

Monday beer links: Stone beer, DNA silliness & that word that’s not going away

December 19, 2016

MONDAY BEER & WINE LINKS, 12.19.2016

Editorial note: Weekly links will be on unpaid leave the next two Mondays. Regular service will resume Jan. 9 (01.09.2017 or 09.01.2017 depending on where you live).

Craft: The Lost Word.
So let’s head into 2017 with the optimistic thought we’ll quit talking about the word we put before beer and talk about beer itself, brewing, culture, ingredients, geography, or anything that does not involve bickering about a definition of something that which refuses to be defined. [Via Boak & Bailey’s Beer Blog]

Beer tailored to your DNA: London brewery creates the perfect pint based your genetic code.
No. Just no. I sense this story has legs, so wherever you read your headlines you’ll keep seeing it, often enough that you might believe that somebody has done a little investigating and established there’s a reason to pay going on $32,000 for 317 gallons of beer. (That’s the equivalent of 3,381 12-ounce servings, so almost $10 for each one.)