Things Fall Apart.<\/a><\/strong> I won’t repeat everything from this August post<\/a>, only a bit: “Twenty years ago Boston Beer sales accounted for 25.1% of craft* sales and the 50 largest craft breweries for 77.5%. Ten years ago, Boston Beer\u2019s share was 19.4% and the 50 largest sold 79.7% of craft. Last year, Boston Beer\u2019s share was 13.2% and the 50 largest\u2019s 68.1%.” The smallest breweries in America are holding their own. Granted, not every brewery owner is content to run a small business, and not every drinker cares about local, but apparently enough do.<\/p>\n * As defined by the Brewers Association at the time.<\/p>\n ‘Beer Gets the Connoisseur Treatment’, 1968.<\/a><\/strong> Top Brewery Road Trip, Routed Algorithmically.<\/a><\/strong> Reclaiming beer snobbery.<\/a><\/strong> Beer merger bets Africans will abandon home brew, switch to bottled beer as they grow richer.<\/a><\/strong> Bread is broken.<\/a><\/strong> ‘Craft beer is still a big-city thing – that\u2019s why I\u2019m glad I live in London!’<\/a><\/strong> If video killed the radio star the internet is killing the writing star \u2014 Richard Siddle.<\/a><\/strong> The Barry Smith interview: what is the nature of wine perception, and is wine flavour objective?<\/a><\/strong> Equity for Punks Revisited.<\/a><\/strong> MONDAY BEER & WINE LINKS, MUSING 11.02.15 Things Fall Apart. [Via All About Beer] Why Do Breweries Sell Out? (Part One). [Via St. John’s Wort] Craft Brew Alliance and the Search for a New ‘Local’. [Via This Is Why I’m Drunk] Why beer mergers don\u2019t really matter to drinkers. [Via MarketWatch] Yes, but… I won’t … 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3xD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13617","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=13617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13620,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13617\/revisions\/13620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n[Via All About Beer]<\/strong>
\nWhy Do Breweries Sell Out? (Part One).<\/a><\/strong>
\n[Via St. John’s Wort]<\/strong>
\nCraft Brew Alliance and the Search for a New ‘Local’.<\/a><\/strong>
\n[Via This Is Why I’m Drunk]<\/strong>
\nWhy beer mergers don\u2019t really matter to drinkers.<\/a><\/strong>
\n[Via MarketWatch]<\/strong>
\nYes, but…<\/p>\n
\n“There are some other interesting general observations: beer, the wine-taster noted, is fundamentally sweet-tasting, despite its reputation for bitterness. The tea-taster was surprised by the importance of \u2018nose\u2019 in beer having apparently never taken a moment to give it a sniff before Cyril Ray asked him to.” [Via Boak & Bailey\u2019s Beer Blog]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nBecause there are things like genetic algorithms and the Google Maps API. [Via Flowing Data]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSome well made points, but you can’t simply type “a snob is not dogmatic” and have it be true. Sometimes it is not a word that needs to be rehabilitated but people exhibiting boorish behavior. [Via DRAFT Magazine]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe headline tells most a story that nicely outlines just why AB InBev is willing to pay so much to takeover SABMiller. [Via Associated Press]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe premise is pretty simple: Industrial production destroyed both the taste and the nutritional value of wheat, and Stephen Jones intends to fix that. It’s a magazine piece, long and worth the time. I wish I had been able to read it before I wrote “Brewing With Wheat.” Lots of interesting stuff worth stealing<\/del> footnoting. [Via The New York Times]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nJohn Keeling, head brewer at Fuller’s in London, begins a column for Craft Beer London. “Is it a golden age? Perhaps for London, but it isn\u2019t when you\u2019re out in the middle of the country and your local pub has just closed.” [Via Craft Beer London]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n“Why would you think you need to know about wine in order to write about it, but not think you need to know how to write to make a living out of it?”
\n[Via Richard Siddle]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n“Philosophers might be interested in whether liking was an intrinsic part of tasting. Is it that whenever you taste something, you can\u2019t separate how it tastes from whether you like it. That is, if you like it, it would taste different from if you didn\u2019t like it. As a philosopher I am interested in that separation. If you can\u2019t separate them, how can you acquire a taste for something?” [Via jamie goode’s wine blog]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n“Equally, now that I have my own brewery, and BrewDog has grown beyond any projections even I would have believed, they are on the verge of being a multinational monolithic conglomerate they rail against. I’ve felt that there is now a tension between us that is barely tangible, but clearly we are viewed as a threat, rather than an ally.” [Via Hardknot Dave]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"