BEER AND WINE LINKS, MUSING 06.25.18
The Art of Repeal: Exploring America’s Post-Prohibition Beer Labels.
Save this link, and any time you need a smile this week feel free to click and scroll.
Can’t Think Straight.
Wearing my optimist hat while reading this. “Slowly but surely, the beer world is becoming safer for anyone who struggles to feel like they belong somewhere, anywhere. To be seen, heard, and valued. To be themselves, without judgment, expectation, or assumptions. It’s a change that’s made me proud to be both a woman and an LGBTQ individual in beer.”
The Rise and Decline of the “Sellout”
Takeovers: Another Football Analogy.
Up close, the Heineken/Beavertown news last week was as devastating as the Anheuser-Busch/10 Barrel news was once in Oregon. That these two are no longer unique — after all, it has been seven years since A-B take control of Goose Island (see below) — does not make them less painful for those involved. But right now, and by that I mean since the Goose Island deal, we are in the moment. Give this some time before suggesting what history will have to say.