BEER AND WINE LINKS, MUSING 08.06.18
– How to Screw Your Brewer: The Case of Toppling Goliath.
– What’s Yours is Mine and What’s Mine is Ours — When Yeast, Intellectual Property, and Marketing Collide.
What started as a story about non-compete agreements morphs into a discussion of non-disclosure agreements in the comments at Beervana (first link), and ultimately leads to one about creations of the mind. And Intellectual Property. And beer as art, and even the components of beer as art themselves. I need to come up with a CliffsNotes version of my thoughts on the topic of beer as art but haven’t. So although I’d prefer you buy a copy of Brewing Local this link should get you to the non-summary version (proceed from “The Hike to Hanging Lake”).
My Milk Sour Chocolate Tripe Tripel.
Before leaving the always onerous topic of beer as art, there is this. “What is authentic? What is craft? What is it that motivates the home-brewer, the home-baker, the home-writer and the home-lawyer to make the transition from this meditative silence of home to the noise and disruption of the market?”
Down with the kids.
This one is for Randy Mosher. Andy Crouch’s tweet (inspired, yes, by Toppling Goliath and the discussion that followed): “Oh lordy, Beer Twitter is back to debating legal issues. Get ready for some very educated hot takes coming your way.” Mosher’s answer: “Days like today are much better than kids shouldn’t be allowed in breweries days.”
– Why Brewers Are Turning to Carbonation-Free Beer.
– The Quietest Place in America Is Becoming a Warzone.
Side Project’s still beers are terrific, an experience, but I pass the story along mostly for those interested in what the next trend might be. Or, to be it more honestly, for drinkers who care about still beer more than I do. Last week, Alan McLeod commented that these musing are well managed. That is truer some weeks than others, and this may be one of the others. But if beer enhances silent contemplation and that has value, then contemplating silence does as well. (Plus the second link contains the best correction of the week: “This post also referenced Indiana Jones’ leather hat. He actually wears a felt fedora. The reference has been removed and Gizmodo sincerely regrets the error.”)
The greatest places in the world to drink beer.
Last month I wrote about books that endeavor to enhance readers’ travel experiences. That, this story, and a post from Jamie Goode about “separating out the wine and the experience of the wine” are reminders that although for some the beer in itself may be the experience, more often beer is there to serve the experience.
WINE
Is wine more like spinach or ice cream?
“Human beings need to learn what they should and shouldn’t like. Just as children have to be taught to appreciate spinach and broccoli.”
FROM TWITTER
I don't have a clue. I preferred blogging, but no one wanted to read that much.
— Lew Bryson (@lewbryson) August 1, 2018
MORE LINKS
Alan McLeod most Thursdays.
Good Beer Hunting’s Read Look Drink most Fridays.
Boak & Bailey most Saturdays.