{"id":13579,"date":"2015-10-05T03:42:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T09:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=13579"},"modified":"2015-10-05T03:42:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T09:42:04","slug":"stop-me-before-i-link-again-a-busy-week-in-beer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/stop-me-before-i-link-again-a-busy-week-in-beer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop me before I link again, a busy week in beer reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 10.05.15<\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When you begin forgetting about your history is when you&#39;re at highest risk of selling it out. That&#39;s today&#39;s &quot;craft&quot; beer observation.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Roger A. Baylor (@newalbanian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newalbanian\/status\/648819255488716800\">September 29, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlemet.com\/articles\/2015\/9\/28\/dick-cantwells-beer-is-immortal\">Elysian, Anheuser-Busch, and the Fight for the Soul of Seattle\u2019s Beer.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nA profile of Dick Cantwell. &#8220;He was the sole nay vote in Elysian Brewing\u2019s sale to Anheuser-Busch. Now the brewer\u2019s legacy is at the center of the battle for the soul of Seattle beer.&#8221; Drop it in Pocket, take the time to enjoy it. <strong>[Via SeattleMet]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/goodbeerhunting.com\/blog\/2015\/9\/30\/critical-drinking-what-beer-costs-why-we-need-more-flexibility-in-the-market\">&#8216;What Beer Costs&#8217; \u2014 Why we need more flexibility in the market.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nIt looks to me as if there is a fair amount of flexibility in the market as is, but I don&#8217;t see the point of people complaining about the price of any particular beer. As <a href=\"http:\/\/beaumontdrinks.com\/\">Stephen Beaumont<\/a> pointed out one of the times this debate popped up <em>years ago<\/em> there are people out there willing to pay these high-end prices. That&#8217;s the bottom line. <strong>[Via Good Beer Hunting]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opb.org\/news\/article\/npr-how-brewers-are-churning-out-tangy-sours-without-the-hefty-price-tag\/\">How Brewers Are Churning Out Inexpensive Tangy Sours.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.denverpost.com\/beer\/2015\/09\/22\/beware-the-kettle-sour-beer\/15501\/\">Beware the kettle sour beer.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nWe begin the sour portion of these links with two views of kettle souring. People get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/saisonman\/posts\/1093446083999697?pnref=story\">really worked up<\/a> about this. <strong>[Via Denver Post and OBP]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/boakandbailey.com\/2015\/10\/why-brew-gose-instead-of-mild\/\">Why Brew Gose Instead of Mild?<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDuring the GABF awards ceremony a week again Saturday Jonathan Cutler from Piece Brewery in Chicago leaned back after he saw that there were 111 entries in the German-style sour ale category and said, &#8220;There were about a dozen when I judged them a few years ago.&#8221; In fact, there were only 13 entries in 2009. This reflects more interest in brewing Berliner Weiss as well as Gose. <strong>[Via Boak &#038; Bailey]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2015\/09\/28\/444201706\/power-of-sour-how-tart-is-reclaiming-turf-from-sweet\">Power Of Sour: How Tart Is Reclaiming Turf From Sweet.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/allaboutbeer.com\/how-wild-is-your-beer\/\">How wild is your beer?<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nTwo more parts to the story of &#8220;wild and sour.&#8221; Food and what does it mean to call a beer wild? (The second story links back to the NPR one, bringing us full circle &#8211; pretty impressive, right?) <strong>[Via NPR and All About Beer]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/foobooz\/2015\/09\/30\/guinness-nitro-ipa-vesper-club-philadelphia\/\">Dear Guinness: Here\u2019s How Not to Debut Your Crappy New Guinness Nitro IPA<\/a>.<\/strong><br \/>\nBrilliant. <strong>[Via fooboz, h\/T Stephen Beaumont]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/entertainment\/index.ssf\/2015\/09\/the_story_behind_the_first_ala.html\">The story behind first Alabama beer to win a Great American Beer Festival medal in 5 years.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nSomewhere Fred Eckhardt is smiling. <strong>[Via AL.com]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sommbeer.com\/2-beers-2-pops\/\">2 Beers 2 Pops \u2013 Kids are drinking in Germany.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Finally, I awakened to this surreal experience going on next to me.  The oldest youngster had a beer in front of her bigger than mine, or so it seemed.  She looked like she was 14, 15?  I have no idea but she was clearly not 21.  Kids can drink beer as early as 16 in Germany \u2013 and this is the basis for my story.&#8221; <strong>[Via SommBeer, h\/t Joe Stange]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/portlandphoenix.me\/2015\/09\/16\/food-booze\/drink-food-booze\/whalez-bro-a-big-problem-for-beer-geek-culture\/\">Whalez Bro: A big problem for beer geek culture.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;You will never learn more about beer if you treat it as an item to be collected, rather than a beverage to be enjoyed.&#8221; <strong>[Via The Portland Phoenix]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beergraphs.com\/bg\/821-great-american-beer-festival-versus-beergraphs\/\">Great American Beer Festival versus BeerGraphs.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ll cut right to the question in the conclusion: &#8220;As much as these are well-respected judges with well-trained taste buds, they come with a much smaller sample than the statistics on our leaderboards. They move faster and can tell you something in a smaller sample, but once you get thousands of people to weigh in on a beer&#8230; would you still take the opinion of a small group of judges over thousands of ratings?&#8221; But I really like this in the comments: &#8220;This is like comparing a baseball players WAR to his fantasy value.&#8221; Definitely written from deep in the rabbit hole looking up. <strong>[Via BeerGraphs]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joesixpack.net\/2015\/10\/01\/beer-as-an-agent-of-change\/\">Beer as an agent of change.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;It takes bricks and people to build a neighborhood, but don\u2019t forget to bring along the beer.&#8221; <strong>[Via Joe Sixpack]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And a new game that can be played in the US as well as the UK &#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sold murky beer? Call it out on social media with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/murkshaming?src=hash\">#murkshaming<\/a>, says guest blogger Quinno <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Or6tsFBsiB\">http:\/\/t.co\/Or6tsFBsiB<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/rFo6VVh4Mf\">pic.twitter.com\/rFo6VVh4Mf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JJB (@jeffreyjohnbell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffreyjohnbell\/status\/650264105668886528\">October 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 10.05.15 When you begin forgetting about your history is when you&#39;re at highest risk of selling it out. That&#39;s today&#39;s &quot;craft&quot; beer observation. &mdash; Roger A. Baylor (@newalbanian) September 29, 2015 Elysian, Anheuser-Busch, and the Fight for the Soul of Seattle\u2019s Beer. 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