Mega-merger? How About No?<\/a><\/strong> Budweiser and the Selling of America.<\/a><\/strong> Remembering the forgotten (and then drinking it).<\/a><\/strong> What’s Happened to the Great American Dive Bar?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Walking through any city center, however, residents might be led to believe that dive bars are still alive. These faux-dive bars, where imbibers have the option of sipping on a $6 Lagunitas draft, can easily deceive transplants and tourists looking for a real down-and-out drinking experience. From a visual appraisal, they have the clich\u00e9 signs: neon Budweiser signs, an LCD electronic jukebox on the wall, and maybe some specials for $2 PBRs. But Jeremiah Moss, author of the blog<\/a> “Jeremiah\u2019s Vanishing New York,” describes them as harbingers of fabricated cookie cutter sameness that derives from the neo-liberal, winner-take-all mindset permeating cities (see: yuppies shrieking with glee at the opening of an artisanal coffee shop, cocktail lounges playing Top 40 hits, kitschy diners serving $13 alcoholic milkshakes).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n [Via Easter]<\/strong><\/p>\n The Bar Where Nobody Knows Your Name.<\/a><\/strong> @jeffreyjohnbell<\/a> @drcrasch<\/a> I wonder what @carlsberg<\/a> spent to fly out a bunch of writers to taste a beer that tastes like beer.<\/p>\n — Joe Stange (@Thirsty_Pilgrim) May 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nAs the headline suggests, Lew Bryson makes his position clear. “One company. Thirty percent of world beer sales. About half of world beer profits.” [Via All About Beer]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAbout those cans labeled “America” … “Today the difference (you might call it an innovation) is that this newer imaginative product sells us\u2014some of us\u2014to ourselves,<\/em> not to the rest of the world, and is maybe, in this way, evidence of an increasing confusion over our national identity.” [Via The New Yorker]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n[Via DRAFT]<\/strong>
\nA Beer Museum Could Open In Chicago With A Brewpub & Rooftop Bar.<\/a><\/strong>
\n[Via Eater]<\/strong>
\nThe Sensible Regulation Of Beer In New Netherlands.<\/a><\/strong>
\n[Via A Good Beer Blog]<\/strong>
\nHistory. Lots of it in the first link. The second link is to a project that will “launch a fundraising campaign this year” so some skepticism
\nis OK. And the third is an example of history done right. To return to the first and re-configure one of Joe Stange’s sentences: “Many (amateur historians) are shedding light on primary sources and questioning the validity of others\u2014and, I believe, that\u2019s what historians are supposed to do,” but “their rigor varies widely.” I apologize for coming across as a curmudgeon. However, even though there is arguably more well-documented research into the past being posted on blogs than in print publications (“Journal of the Brewery History Society”<\/a> excluded) there’s something to be said for peer and technical review. Been there, made those mistakes. <\/p>\n
\nRelated. [Via Punch]<\/strong><\/p>\nFROM TWITTER<\/h5>\n
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