1) IPA is broken. Can brewers please fix it?<\/a> 2) A Conversation with Nicole Erny of Alvarado Street Brewery.<\/a> 3) Why the Coors Light “bra ad” is groundbreaking.<\/a> 4) Greene King: another one bites the dust.<\/a> 6) Buzzer Beater? \u2014 AB InBev Faces Deadline to Buy Craft Brew Alliance This Week.<\/a> 8) We Asked Bartenders To Name The Most Played Out Beer Styles.<\/a> 9) A wine for “wine lovers”<\/a> I know we get sad when old businesses go down, but isn't it unrealistic to assume that a business can continue to operate essentially unchanged forever?<\/p>\n — Carla Jean Lauter (@beerbabe) August 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nThe Beer Nut posted this title on Twitter, and it is the one I am sticking with. Plenty of tweet-size nuggets here, such as, “I didn’t expect to get such a clich\u00e9 of everything wrong with the concept of ‘milkshake IPA’ but here it is. If this is what you wanted beer to be in 2019, fill your boots.<\/p>\n
\nLots of beer smarts here, but also some life smarts: “I actually have a degree [in what\u2019s] basically journalism\u2014I graduated college in 2007 and it was not a great time to try to enter the journalism field. It was kind of like, \u2018If you want to do this, write for free.\u2019 I wasn’t particularly inspired to do that.”<\/p>\n
\nKate Bernot was asked if this ad wasn’t pandering. Pick another beer commercial and pick a man. Would you ask him the same question?
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\n5) Breweries with Chimneys: Endangered Species?<\/a>
\nThe sale of Greene King last week, in some ways like the sale of Platform Brewing earlier this month, did not ruffle the feathers of beer geeks. So it doesn’t appear to be a big deal. But, as first Roger Protz does in reporting on the transaction, and then Boak & Bailey do in a post from 2016, bigger forces are at play.<\/p>\n
\n7) No Deal: Anheuser-Busch Passes on Craft Brew Alliance.<\/a>
\nReading the first, then considering the result, illustrates how complex the beer business is.<\/p>\nLIST OF WEEK<\/h5>\n
\nI will save you the time. Barrel-aged stouts. Fruit beers. Triple IPAs. Sour beers. Double IPAs. Red Ales. East Coast IPAs. Macro Brews. High alcohol beers. Strong ales. Notice that pumpkin beers<\/a> are not on that list.<\/p>\nWINE<\/h5>\n
\nTo circle back to 1): “And I can tell you that the character on the label, in a very real sense, appears to be an accurate reflection of the oily, industrial wine itself. Pretty repellent.”<\/p>\nFROM TWITTER<\/h5>\n
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