The crawl is on.<\/a><\/strong> Data Says Women Driving Craft Beer Growth.<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n A Proper Conversation with Randy Mosher about Murky Beer.<\/a><\/strong> Carlos Brito and the Fallacy of Too Much Choice.<\/a><\/strong> 2016 GABF Medal Winners Analyzed.<\/a><\/strong> Talking About My Generation: Wine Spectator Turns 40.<\/a><\/strong> Wine Blogging: A Few Changes in 12 Years.<\/a><\/strong> Loved to Death: How Instagram Is Destroying Our Natural Wonders.<\/a><\/strong> There\u2019s No Such Thing As ‘Wine Drunk’ or ‘Tequila Drunk’ \u2014 It\u2019s All One Drunk.<\/a><\/strong> Preliminary #hops<\/a> harvest results for Germany show about 42.700 tons throughout the regions. Equivalent to about 4.600 ton Alpha. Record!<\/p>\n — HVG German Hops (@HVG_GERMAN_HOPS) November 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nCuriosity and the skunk.<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe concept — “the crawl is on” — should be enough to suck you in. If you follow John Duffy on Twitter<\/a> you know he was knocking about the US recently. Last Monday he began chronicling those travels. As always, excellent drinking notes paired with telling cultural commentary. [Via The Beer Nut]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nA lot here, including that sales data from the big stores are going to overvalue the hard sodas and undervalue the North East IPAs. Leading us to . . . [Via BeerGraphs]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAnd, among other things, Randy has this to say: “My guess is that if you presented some ‘normal’ IPAs with added flavourless haze, or clarified some of these cloudy NEIPAs, it would change their perception in a similar manner. And of course any moron can make a cloudy beer, so there’s no challenge to that part. Making a delicious beer is very difficult, cloudy or otherwise. So, if it’s the cloudiness that’s important to people, then other things may not matter as much.” [Via Total Ales]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n[Via This Is Why I’m Drunk]<\/strong>
\nThe Paradox of Choice.<\/a><\/strong>
\n[Via Beervana]<\/strong>
\nEditor\u2019s Note: Choice Matters, But So Does Context.<\/a><\/strong>
\n[Via Brewbound]<\/strong>
\nI already offered my two cents,<\/a> but beyond figuring out if we are talking about paradox or fallacy there is plenty more to discuss.<\/p>\n
\nFor your<\/del> (OK I’ll be honest) my inner beer geek. [Via Brewers Association]<\/strong><\/p>\nWINE<\/h5>\n
\nI don’t give a diddly about Wine Spectator<\/em> but Mike Veseth has interesting things to say. Consider this: “It is important to put wine in context. The world of wine in 1976, as represented by that first issue, was pretty closed. If you look at recent Wine Spectator<\/em> issues, on the other hand, you can see that it is not just wine that has changed but our idea of wine and how we relate to it, which I believe reflects changing social patterns generally, and not just about wine.” Beer too. [Via The Wine Economist]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAlan McLeod<\/a> has written several times about how conversations at beer blogs have dwindled. It would seem the same thing has occurred with wine blogs. “The primary change that has come to the realm of wine blogs is that a shared camaraderie among wine bloggers isn\u2019t nearly as strong as it was in the years 2005-2010.” [Via Fermentation]<\/strong><\/p>\nPUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS<\/h5>\n
\n“It\u2019s a tricky situation. But we ask people not to share places that are really sensitive environmentally, places that can\u2019t handle larger crowds.” [Via The Ringer]<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n“The difference, then, is in when and where you drink it, and whom you\u2019re drinking it with. ‘It depends on what mood you were in when you started drinking and the social context,’ Clayton said. If you\u2019re doing tequila shot after tequila shot, you\u2019re probably geared up for a wild night anyway. On the other hand, if you\u2019re slowly working your way through a bottle of wine, odds are higher you\u2019re settling in for a more mellow night \u2014 and, by extension, a more mellow drunk. Contrary to the way we see things, it\u2019s the context, not the drink, that matters, because the context often determines<\/em> the drink.” [Via New York Magazine]<\/strong><\/p>\nFROM TWITTER<\/h5>\n
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