{"id":16560,"date":"2021-08-30T07:34:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T13:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=16560"},"modified":"2021-08-30T07:34:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T13:34:20","slug":"the-good-terroir-the-bad-climate-change-the-ugly-unacceptable-beer-festival-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-good-terroir-the-bad-climate-change-the-ugly-unacceptable-beer-festival-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"The good (terroir), the bad (climate change) & the ugly (unacceptable beer festival behavior)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bale
\nHops (at Loftus Ranches) viewed from inside a brewery (Bale Breaker). Moxee, Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a decent chance I will be in a hop field, or on the way to one, when you read this. I\u2019ve also seen a lot of grapes, fruit trees, corn and cattle since reaching the Northwest a week ago. Also a lot of smoke, from fires in California and Washington, hanging in the air and plants that suffered from the \u201cheat dome\u201d that settled over the region early in summer. So the first link today is to a press release. It reads like a press release, but, dang, pay attention, because climate change is real.<\/em><\/p>\n

Carbon neutral<\/strong>
\n\u201cNew Belgium Brewing is releasing its Carbon Neutral Toolkit<\/a> to support fellow beer companies on the journey toward net-zero carbon emissions. The detailed resource, which represents hundreds of hours of work and significant financial investment from New Belgium, is designed to help other small- and medium-sized breweries measure their carbon footprint and take steps to make their businesses carbon neutral by supporting the highest impact greenhouse gas emissions reduction initiatives available.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unacceptable<\/strong>
\n\u201cI know I keep using the word \u2018unacceptable\u2019 . . . but how else can you describe the fact that part of going to festivals for womxn just naturally includes being prepared to guard yourself, to be subjected to discrimination and danger, to turn on yourself if something bad does indeed happen because that\u2019s who society has taught you to blame?\u201d <\/p>\n

Courtney Iseman, who writes the Hugging the Bar newsletter, and Women of the Bevolution<\/a> founder Ash Eliot are starting a series discussing the current state of safety and beer festivals . . . or lack thereof. Subscribe to Hugging the Bar to follow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Texas terroir<\/strong>
\nYou must be new here if you don\u2019t know I am a sucker for terroir (hence \u201cappellation\u201d beer). Yeast found in the wilds of Texas may help Texas breweries create beer unique to their region. Many excellent points in “Yeast Hunters,”<\/a> but I hope readers read this carefully: \u201caround 70 percent of flavor in beer is due to the yeast.\u201d That\u2019s not \u201cyeast flavor\u201d flavor but the aroma and flavor that result from the interaction of yeast and other raw materials, perhaps also from Texas.<\/p>\n

Wrong<\/strong>
\nI’ve never enjoyed judging the “Irish Red” category in beer competitions. Martyn Cornell’s takedown<\/a> leaves me feeling OK with that. “(In 1988) Coors declared that \u2018In 1864 in Enniscorthy, Ireland, George Henry Lett brewed the first batch of a full-bodied, red-colored lager that would eventually become known as George Killian\u2019s Irish Red,\u2019 which manages to cram five pieces of utter nonsense into less than 30 words.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crowd sourcing<\/strong>
\n\u201cI\u2019ve yet to visit any two identical farmhouses, so why should the beers made there (or modeled after the setting) be any different?\u201d I\u2019m not usually a fan of mashups of book blurb length comments, but I read this collection that Mandy Naglich assembled<\/a> to the end. That said, I spent hours Friday talking about the mixed-culture beers at Fair Isle Brewing in Seattle and I\u2019m not sure the word farmhouse was uttered once. Farm, yes, but not farmhouse. <\/p>\n

Always for pleasure<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Beers
\nBeers conditioning at Fair Isle Brewing. Seattle, Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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