monday links

Monday beer links: Do we know where we’re going?

The occasional reminder: Boak & Bailey provide links to News, Nuggets & Longreads each Saturday, Alan McLeod has made Thursday his day for recapping and commenting, Good Beer Hunting offers Read.Look.Drink each Friday, and more sporadically Timely Tipple focuses on history links.

BEER AND WINE LINKS 01.22.18

Where is Bass from?
Or that Goose Island IPA in your glass? Or that Night Shift Santilli? Or the Amarillo hops you are so proud to use? Boak & Bailey asked a simple question, and I’m adding a few more related to place. Pardon the earworm but you might consider these Talking Heads lyrics: Well we know where we’re going/But we don’t know where we’ve been/And we know what we’re knowing/But we can’t say what we’ve seen.

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Monday beer links: News, terroir & finding new paths

BEER AND WINE LINKS 01.15.18
NEWS/TRENDS

– Front and center because the “underbelly of misogyny” still lurks. Related: Good Beer Hunting followed up its “What Boyz Like” post with several supporting essays last week, and in addition Austin Ray provided to link to this one with serious “questions of privilege, whiteness, power, and masculinity.”

– Sobering details about the “craft beverage” tax cut. “For every $20 of alcohol tax cuts in the legislation, only about $1 actually goes to the true craft brewers or small distillers.” (I should have spotted this for last week’s links, but important enough to suggest reading anyway.)

– New Zealand has added craft beer to the basket of goods it monitors to measure inflation. Meanwhile DVD players and sewing machines were among items removed from the Consumers Price Index.

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Monday beer links: To diversity and beyond

MONDAY BEER & WINE LINKS, 01.08.17

My take: There are problems to be solved. And changing the conversation by pointing to a different one does not mean the first (or second or third) suddenly isn’t one. Beyond that, there have already been enough words spilled over what was easily the biggest American beer story of the week and little need for any from me. I’ll simply add that the initial post was particularly ambitious, and as ProPublica points out such things are a lot of work. So here you go:

– It starts with this post.

– The posts that followed included this and this.

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