Monday beer links: Sexism in beer & the workplace & history

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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Monday beer links: Because we ask a lot of this drink

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.

Keg delivery at Market Porter in London
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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Session #133 announced: Hometown glories

The SessionHost Gareth Pettman has announced the topic for The Session #133 is Hometown Glories.

Which means? He suggests several staring points:

– Describing the types of bars/pubs you have in your hometown, how popular are they? Has craft beer culture made much of a splash?
– Are there any well-known breweries? Is there a particular beer or style that is synonymous with your hometown?
– History of the town and how that can be reflected in its drinking culture.
– Tales of your youth, early drinking stories.
– Ruminations on what once was and what is now? Have you moved away and been pleasantly surprised or disappointed on return visits?

Am I the only one who thought almost immediately this is a mashup of two Bruce Springsteen songs — “My Hometown” and “Glory Day” — from the same album, “Born in the U.S.A.”?

The Session #133 meets March 2.

A hop blast from the past, and UK champion

I originally intended to include a few paragraphs about this in the next volume of Hop Queries but it grew a bit longer. The free newsletter will mail Friday.

“Too bitter, rank and slightly unpleasant” in 1935. The winner in judging for the British Hop Awards for 2017.

Can you name that hop?

A hint. Her sister is 19 percent of the pedigree of Citra.

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Monday links: Balance, in commerce & community, as well as beer

BEER AND WINE LINKS 02.19.18

The Craft of Balance.
This feels like a Noah’s Ark issue of beer links, with many related stories, mostly in pairs. But before getting to those, in my favorite of the week Pete Brown writes about balance.

My wife Liz has much lower tolerance for chill heat than me. She had a tiny spoonful of it, and just managed to say ‘That’s gorgeous” before the screaming started. ‘Never bring that near me again,” she said between gulps of water. But a couple of days later, when I heated up the last of it for my dinner, she couldn’t resist having another taste. She knew it was going to hurt, but she was compelled to try the incredible depth and layering of flavour once more.’

Ale better: how craft beer found its mission.
The Business of Inclusion — Beer’s Unique Intersection of Community and Commerce.
Craft brewers seek to involve more African Americans.
The headline from Good Beer Hunting (second link) states what seems so obvious that you wonder why more breweries aren’t more proactive about making their businesses more diverse for simple economic reasons. Their responsibilities to communities they expect to support them should be equally obvious.

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