A Czech Influence on Belgian Brewing.<\/a><\/strong> What Is the Brewers Association Doing to Address Gender and Race?<\/a><\/strong> The “Reputation” of Beer.<\/a><\/strong> Beer to Fish Food: Nonprofit Finds New Use for Spent Grain.<\/a><\/strong> Historic brewing names Pabst, MillerCoors locked in legal battle.<\/a><\/strong> Budweiser Renames Its Beer “America.”<\/a><\/strong> The wine tasting that shocked the world \u2014 and forever changed what we drink.<\/a><\/strong> Shift to aroma\/proprietary varieties has pushed the real value of hop crop\/lb back to levels last seen in WWII… pic.twitter.com\/gGqN658FeO<\/a><\/p>\n — Bart Watson (@BrewersStats) May 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nEvan Rail goes digging though the remaining archives of a number of Belgian beer makers and discovers “how Czech brewing has impacted the beer culture in other countries \u2014 without being recognized for doing so.” [Via Beer Culture]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWhat *Should* the Brewers Association Do to Address Gender and Race?<\/a><\/strong>
\nI will only add that we are talking about an association of independent breweries. Shouldn’t some of them have their own programs to recruit minorities? [Via This Is Why I’m Drunk]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n“As a community, we need to stay on offense. The craft beer drinker is a much more diverse group than many know; we need to embrace our diversity. Beer is a gender-less beverage. Beer is a race-less beverage.” [Via Stouts & Stilettos]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nA couple of quick additions to the story, to illustrate how a small brewery can connect with its community. West Sixth Brewing resurrected a 90,000-square foot 1890s building that is called the Bread Box because it used to be a Rainbow Bread factory. As well as FoodChain Lexington (featured in this story) it houses artist studios, a non-profit community bicycle shop, the seafood restaurant mentioned, a distiller, and a coffee roaster. [Via All About Beer]<\/strong><\/p>\nBIGGER BREWERIES<\/h5>\n
\nThis story flew under the radar, coming to life while the Craft Brewers Conference was in full swing: “Pabst and its owner, Los Angeles-based Blue Ribbon Intermediate Holdings LLC, claim in a lawsuit filed in circuit court that MillerCoors has breached without warning a long-term agreement to brew Pabst products, after repeated assurances that MillerCoors had sufficient capacity to honor the deal into the next decade.” [Via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\na quick Google search will lead you to plenty of related commentary, most of it not particularly positive. Budweiser has indeed gone to “to potentially ingenious, potentially absurd branding extremes.” [Via Fast Company]<\/strong><\/p>\nWINE<\/h5>\n
\n[Via The Washington Post]<\/strong>
\nWould California wine have succeeded without the 1976 Paris Tasting?<\/a><\/strong>
\n[Via Steve Heimhoff]<\/strong>
\nFifteen years ago American brewers asked when they’d have their own “Judgment of Paris.” I don’t know that there is a single historic moment to point to, but most would agree that American beer now occupires a “lofty position.”<\/p>\nFROM TWITTER<\/h5>\n
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