The Reinheitsgebot – A Personal Voyage.<\/a><\/strong> A short history of spruce beer part one: the Danzig connection.<\/a><\/strong> The True Story Of Milton Glaser’s Best Client<\/a><\/strong> Great Story, Shame It\u2019s Not True.<\/a><\/strong> The deal that shook craft beer five years ago is still reverberating.<\/a><\/strong> Blogunitas: When Big Gets BIGGAR.<\/a><\/strong> Genesee becomes local craft’s big brother.<\/a><\/strong> @robsterowski<\/a> English Fuggles are rarer than Citra (citetation needed), I'm contracted on Fuggles and having to make do with French.<\/p>\n — BeerNouveau (@BeerNouveau) April 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n“Let the brewing traditions of Germany open and grow, to give the beer-drinking public what they want, and see a rejuvenation of German beer culture at a time when the trend has been away from beer.” [Via The Bitten Bullet]<\/strong><\/p>\nNOT REIHEITSGEBOT<\/h5>\n
\nA short history of spruce beer part two: the North American connection.<\/a><\/strong>
\n[Via Zythophile]<\/strong>
\nForaging for Fonta Flora’s Appalachian Wild Ales.<\/a><\/strong>
\n[Via Serious Eats]<\/strong>
\n9 New Floral Beers That Don\u2019t Remind You of Your Great Aunt Esther.<\/a><\/strong>
\n[Via bon appétit]<\/strong>
\nSpot a theme? <\/p>\nBACK TO REGULAR PROGRAMMING<\/h5>\n
\n“In the initial consultation, Steve Hindy had a couple ideas of what he wanted the brand to evoke. ‘I said Milton (Glaser), I want the Brooklyn Bridge, I want the Dodgers, I want every guy in Brooklyn to want to get this tattooed on his arm,’ Hindy says. ‘And Milton said, ‘Save something for me to do!”” [Via Fast Company]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nIt’s this simple: “Lots of pubs have fascinating stories attached to them but it’s a shame so few of them seem to be true.” [Via Boak & Bailey’s Beer Blog]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe deal is the sale of Goose Island Beer Co. to Anhueser-Busch InBev and founder John Hall says, among other things: “That\u2019s one reason why there\u2019s the High End today. That\u2019s really equipped to sell a specific product, tell more stories and connect on-premise rather than in an off-premise way. Also, I think the biggest portion was the PR thing. When we said, ‘Trust us, it\u2019s all about the beer,’ it is all about the beer \u2014 and the beer is as good [as], if not better than, it\u2019s ever been. There\u2019s more of it, there\u2019s more creativity, and then, if you look at the employees, they\u2019ve done better professionally and financially, those who have stayed. Those who didn\u2019t? That\u2019s their choice.” [Via MarketWatch]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGreg Nagel has lots of pictures from the newest Lagunitas brewery. Meanwhile the story he posted last week (it got squeezed out of links here because there were so<\/em> many) about what might be a new brewery in LA or might be fiction kept getting stranger<\/a>. [Via OCBeerBlog]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGenesee Brewery invites local (non-Genesee) brewers to sit in on its sensory panel and also opens its laboratory for outside use. Area brewers have borrowed equipment, been trained to count yeast, for instance, and Genny has provided analysis of beers.[Via Democrat & Chronicle]<\/strong><\/p>\nFROM TWITTER<\/h5>\n
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