Last week the (well, my) question was: What now? This week the question is: Where Are We Now? In this case, Dr. J Jackson-Beckham’s take on the state of social advocacy work in craft beer.
Make time to read this.
Please.
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IPA still travels well. So not only does it work to ship hoppy pale beer from England to India, but China is a consistent top-five market for American craft breweries. And guess what the Chinese are buying. “Hazy and West Coast IPAs are among the most popular styles . . .” and most popular brands include “hop-forward American heavyweights, including Russian River Brewing Co., Tree House Brewing Co., and Other Half Brewing Co.”
(Do you get these beers in the states where you live?)
Making a difference. That’s Kokua, brewed to raise funds for survivors of the devastating wildfire in Maui, on the left, and Black is Beautiful, which raises funds to support the National Black Brewers Association, on the right. Daria and I enjoyed them Saturday at Ex Novo Brewing in Corrales, Nex Mexico. The brewery is located about a mile from a house in which we once lived, unfortunately before it opened. Maui Brewing CEO Garrett Marrero is the driving force behind Kokua. He and NB2A are the 2023 award winners announced by Brewbound.
Another list, I know, but a good one.
Cask beer in 2023. A roundup. Hogshead Brewery in Denver is not on the list, but I am including a photo of foam atop Gilpin Black Gold, a porter, because I can.
The nomads of craft brewing. I’m a sucker for a good headline, in this case on a story about Crossroads Mobile Canning in Hood River, Washington.
Wine, Globalization, and the End of History. Mike Veseth writes that wine had its “End of History” moment in the 1990s. Until then, the history of wine was defined, more or less, by Old World notions of appellations and terroir. Jancis Robinson shook things up in 1995 with a wine series on BBC, in which, rather than organizing a tour of the wine world by historic regions she sorted things by grape variety, and included New World wine producers as well as Old World ones.
Sound familiar?
Veseth also writes that the 1990s were a golden age for wine, and that it didn’t last. I’m waiting for somebody to post a well thought out essay about the golden age for beer. I look forward to linking to it.