{"id":12441,"date":"2014-07-28T04:09:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=12441"},"modified":"2014-07-27T08:17:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T14:17:46","slug":"stone-grodziskie-poppycock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/stone-grodziskie-poppycock\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone & place; Grodziskie & poppycock"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 07.28.14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Based only on what I read in the blogs I subscribe to and my Twitter feed Stone Brewing’s crowdfunding campaign was the worst idea since Miller Lite (Exhibit 1: Crowd-Funded Brewery Campaigns Are Bullshit<\/a>; Exhibit 2: On Rich and Successful People Wanting Free Money<\/a>). I didn’t see a whole lot positive, except for<\/em> the very basic fact that plenty of people are happily signing up for the Stone program.<\/p>\n

I’m more interested in the potential impact of Stone’s brewery in Berlin — if and how Stone’s presence changes beer in Germany and Europe, and if and how Stone’s beers change when they are brewed in an entirely different geographical and cultural place. Better to wait and see rather than guess.<\/p>\n

Craft Breweries Scale Up But Keep It Real.<\/a><\/strong> This Wall Street Journal<\/em> article blurs the facts here and there, but ventures into total bullshit when referring to a collaboration beer produced by New Belgium Brewing and 3 Floyds Brewing: “Their latest joint effort resuscitated a once-forgotten wheat beer called Gr\u00e4tzer, introducing drinkers to an ancient style and an unfamiliar brewer at the same time.” Poppycock. Polish homebrewers deserve credit for reviving Grodziskie (Gr\u00e4tzer is German name). That the article overlooks the fact the collaboration differs in character from traditional Grodziskie in several different ways isn’t what bugs me the most. It’s the insinuation that “America craft beer will save the world.” <\/p>\n

[Via The Wall Street Journal]<\/strong><\/p>\n

The (Non) Beer Bubble, Part Deux.<\/a><\/strong> Interesting math and some smart thinking from Bart Watson at the Brewers Association. What it doesn’t address — hey, it’s not his job — is the aspirations of these brewery owners, if their business plans are realistic. I’d ramble on, but we’re in Oregon right now, part of summer travel that has included visiting schools our daughter, Sierra, might want to attend. Were I much younger and thinking about starting a brewery (I’m never going to be again and I’m not about to) then paying college tuition x number of years down the road would be part of the equation. I’m not sure it is for many of these Sierra Nevada wannabes.<\/p>\n

[Via the Brewers Association]<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Governor Cuomo Announces Formation of NY Craft Brewer Workgroup.<\/a><\/strong> Here’s one paragraph from the press release: “The workgroup will help coordinate and improve communication between all segments of the craft brew industry and state government. Members will also work together to identify emerging needs, including research on new varieties of hops and barley, production methods and consumer trends; as well as making sure that the state has the infrastructure in place for this growing industry.” Promising. <\/p>\n

[Via a press release.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Second thoughts on the mysterious origins of AK.<\/a><\/strong> Your beer history fix of the week.<\/p>\n

[Via Zythophile (Martyn Cornell)]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bootleg Biology’s “Chief Yeast Wrangler” Talks Delicious Science.<\/a><\/strong> Meet Jeff Mello. Your beer geek fix of the week.<\/p>\n

[Via Epicurious]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 07.28.14 Based only on what I read in the blogs I subscribe to and my Twitter feed Stone Brewing’s crowdfunding campaign was the worst idea since Miller Lite (Exhibit 1: Crowd-Funded Brewery Campaigns Are Bullshit; Exhibit 2: On Rich and Successful People Wanting Free Money). I didn’t see a whole lot … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3eF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12441"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12449,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441\/revisions\/12449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}