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Back in the day I yielded to temptation and posted lists<\/a>. I also railed against them<\/a>. So you might figure there is no reason to trust me. <\/p>\n But two lists (the second is really multiple lists) that showed up last week sent me to the files to dig out a couple from the days of print that I will share them here.<\/p>\n The headline on the first\u2014The 25 Most Important American Beers of All Time\u2014screams bring back a Jay Brooks takedown<\/a> (another back-in-the-day thing in which Jay would dig deep, point after point, about something written). I commented in one Twitter thread<\/a>, and otherwise have three questions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1) Anchor Steam over Anchor Liberty? \u201cThe Best 20 Beers in 2020\u201d<\/a><\/strong> from Craft Beer & Brewing magazine are not the 20 I would pick. Heck, I\u2019ve only tasted a few of them. However, I did pick my 10 for the magazine. That list isn\u2019t online yet, but if you care the magazine went in the mail to subscribers last week and should be popping up on newsstands. (Update:<\/strong> Now available<\/a>.)<\/p>\n I occasionally write stories for CB&B, so feel free to disregard two thoughts:<\/p>\n 1) Joe Stange and I each chose a beer from Urban Chestnut Brewing in St. Louis. Different beers. Joe moved back to Missouri from Germany last year. He picked a beer he drinks regularly. We lived in St. Louis the first six years after UCBC opened. I chose a beer I used to drink regularly, and was reminded during a trip back early this year how much I miss it.<\/p>\n 2) The CB&B list is a combination of rare and regular, which is a good thing.<\/p>\n (The Top 20 list is accompanied by several readers\u2019 lists. These are always fun to read.)<\/p>\n Two decades ago, American Brewer magazine<\/strong> assembled \u201cA Brew\u2019s Who Of The Millenniums: 25 Of The Most Significant Figures In Brewing Over The Last 1,000 Years.\u201d There were two lists: B.J and A.J., Before Jack and After Jack, Jack being New Albion Brewing founder Jack McAuliffe. (He\u2019s only 14th on the A.J. list.)<\/p>\n I\u2019m only going to list the names, except to note the James Watt at #10 is not the BrewDog CEO, but the 18th-century inventor of the steam engine.<\/p>\n Before Jack<\/strong> After Jack<\/strong> It might be time to revise that second list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back in the day I yielded to temptation and posted lists. I also railed against them. So you might figure there is no reason to trust me. But two lists (the second is really multiple lists) that showed up last week sent me to the files to dig out a couple from the days of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,703],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction","category-monday-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4cf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16141,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135\/revisions\/16141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2) No Ballantine IPA?
\n3) No mixed fermentation beer? There is a passing mention of La Foile (although it is called La Joile) in the description of New Belgium Fat Tire). It’s not like Wisconsin Belgian Red<\/a> from New Glarus Brewing was flying under the radar in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n
\n1) Louis Pasteur
\n2) Ferdinand P.A. Carre
\n3) Williams IV, Elector of Bavaria
\n4) Arthur Guinness
\n5) Adolphus Busch
\n6) Joseph Groll
\n7) Sir Williams Gladstone
\n8) George Hodgson
\n9) King Ludwig I
\n10) James Watt
\n11) Ralph Harwood
\n12) William Bass
\n13) Gerard Adriaan Heineken
\n14) Emil Hansen
\n15) Daniel Wheeler
\n16) Gabriel Sedlmayr the Younger and Anton Dreher
\n17 Jean Primus
\n18) Wayne Wheeler
\n19) Michael Combrune
\n20) Maximilian I
\n21) Jean De Clerck
\n22) Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
\n23) Carl Joseph Napoleon
\n24) Saint Hildegarde
\n25) Robert Burns<\/p>\n
\n1) Michael Jackson
\n2) Jim Koch
\n3) August Busch III
\n4) Bob Lenz
\n5) Henry King
\n6) Bert Grant
\n7) Michael Hardman, Graham Lees, Jim Makin and Bill Mellor
\n8) Charlie Papazian
\n9) Fritz Maytag
\n10) Paul Shipman
\n11) Paul Camusi and Ken Grossman
\n12) Bill Coors
\n13) Robert Uihlein
\n14) Jack McAuliffe
\n15) Candy Lightner
\n16) David Bruce
\n17) Charles Finkel
\n18) Richard Yuengling
\n19) David Rehr
\n20) Pierre Celis
\n21) Alan Bond
\n22) Joseph Owades and Karl Strauss
\n23) Alan Forge and Liam Byrne
\n24) John Mitchell
\n25) Bill Owens (Owens was the publisher for American Brewer at the time)<\/p>\n