Let’s hear it for beermaking frivolity

So I was looking for this quote from Fred Eckhardt:

“Winemakers are so serious. Beermakers are frivolous.”

Which sent me into my archives — deep, this one was stored on a portable drive and in a version of Microsoft Word old enough I had to “import” the story. Once I’d gone to that trouble I decided to post this article I wrote for All About Beer magazine in 2001.

Another line I’d forgotten: Michael Jackson described homebrewers as the “the shock troops of the beer revolution.”

Also note: Maureen Ogle and Charlie Papazian continue to add to their posts about the early days of the American Homebrewers Association.