{"id":15731,"date":"2019-08-05T06:22:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=15731"},"modified":"2019-08-05T06:22:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:22:38","slug":"monday-beer-briefing-pivotal-years-kveik-good-or-shite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/monday-beer-briefing-pivotal-years-kveik-good-or-shite\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday beer briefing: Pivotal years, kveik & good or shite?"},"content":{"rendered":"
08.05.19, BEER AND FERMENTATION LINKS<\/h5>\n

1) Our idea of luxury has changed dramatically over the last 15 years.<\/a>
\nIt begins: “Look around. We live in the age of gilded minimalism. In the Bay Area in the year 2019, pop-ups in unmarked buildings draw hours-long lines. Our hottest restaurants are spare, open temples to natural light. We want our butter house-cultured, our grains ancient, our wild ales spontaneously fermented \u2014 and we\u2019re happy to pay the premium markup.” The premise is that 2004 was a pivotal year for California wine. What would the pivotal year for American beer be?<\/p>\n

2) Of Mad Scientists and Liquid Cocaine \u2014 Modern Beer Finds a Way in Budapest.<\/a>
\nMore thinking about authenticity.
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3) \"LarsA Fire Being Kindled \u2014 The Revolutionary Story of Kveik, Norway\u2019s Extraordinary Farmhouse Yeast.<\/a>
\nEverything you wanted to know about kveik but were afraid to ask. Also an excuse to remind you that Lars Garshol (on the left, riding the train back to Bergen after a day of research) will be talking about kveik and Norwegian farmhouse brewing next month in Chicago and Toronto.<\/a><\/p>\n

4) Good or shite?<\/a>
\nTandleman offers up a blast from the past<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SENSORY<\/h5>\n

5) Jarl vs. Citra \u2013 clipping in the treble?<\/a>
\nThinking about beer in terms of sound.<\/p>\n

LISTS<\/h5>\n

6) The Most Important Beers in Minnesota History: A 12-pack of taste and influence.<\/a>
\n7) We Asked 20 Brewers: What Are the Worst Trends in Beer Right Now?<\/a>
\n6) is thoughtful, and almost<\/em>, but only almost, makes me wish I weren’t so unkind to listicles. Not sure you’d call everything listed in 7) a trend, but the topics led to a bunch of chatter on Twitter.<\/p>\n

YEAST<\/h5>\n

8) The Secret Life Of Yeasts: Spontaneous Fermentation In Wine.<\/a><\/p>\n

9) How Distillers Use Yeast to Influence Character in Spirits.<\/a><\/p>\n

FROM TWITTER<\/h5>\n
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I think it\u2019s interesting that this ad is 1. very confidently directed at women 2. in a mundane context very familiar to women 3. seemingly without the normal assumed audience\/gaze of men.<\/p>\n

Very in to this. https:\/\/t.co\/gCVg88dMyA<\/a><\/p>\n

— Michael Kiser (@mpkiser) August 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n