BEER AND WINE LINKS 03.12.18

WINE

Rich People Are Ruining Wine.
“Lifestyle vintners.”

What would a lifestyle brewer look like? (Beyond the beard.)

BACK TO BEER

Brew Dog was at the center of the story of the week (or stories of the week or stories of the weeks; hard to keep track). Head over to A Good Beer Blog or Boak & Bailey’s Beer Blog for complete converage. More would be overkill.

Closed, Thanks for the Memories — An Argument for Historical Preservation.
First a disclaimer. I sleep with an archivist. (In fact, the opportunity for her to work at a presidential library is why we moved to Atlanta.) Now another disclaimer. I wrote this in Brewing Local: “The earliest complete description of steam beer production is from 1898, and until a diary is found by the great-great-grandchild of a mid-nineteenth-century Bay Area brewer, it won’t be clear how the process evolved during the previous 50 years.” As somebody who wants to write about such stuff the lack of information pisses me off.

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BEER AND WINE LINKS 03.05.18

1) Sexism in Beer: Introduction
2) Sexism in Beer: The Experiences of Women
3) Sexism in Beer: A Brewer’s Perspective
4) Sexism in Beer: What You Can Do
5) The Reddit discussion.
6) Brewery apologises after consent joke causes uproar.
7) A message from Greg Koch.
8) Women, You’re Not The Problem — Our Sexist Workplace Culture Is.
Pardon the amount of links, enough that I will refer to them by number. I want to make it easier for you to read each of the four parts of Beervana’s excellent collection of stories related to sexism in beer (1-4). No. 5 links to the discussion that followed at Reddit. I am certain there were others, but this one nicely illustrates that people “get it” at different levels, including not at all. And while Stone’s Twitter misstep (6-7) is pretty much a poster child for not getting it, the result (putting a woman in charge of the Twitter account) represents genuine progress.

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BEER AND WINE LINKS 02.26.18

At the end of his mid-week collection of beery links and thoughts Thursday Alan McLeod mentioned “this finite set of stories” that he, Boak & Bailey and I choose from each week. It is one reason I am always excited to see Saturday and Sunday posts, because I get the first chance to comment on them. Conversely, I might delete as story I saved earlier in the week because I expect you to read AGBB and B&B every week and I am already redundant enough.

But some stories deserve to be pointed to time and time again, such as Misogynistic Beer Imagery: Aesthetic, Narratives, Contexts, so we’ll start there. And some kindle a memory. In this case it was casks being delivered at Market Porter in London, which is central to a story about a time when more people visited a pub at the beginning of the day.

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