Can a brewery be good for a community? Last week the Smyrna, Georgia, city council voted to sell green space near the community center so a brewery can go there. <\/p>\n
Economic Development Director Andrea Worthy pointed to the revitalization of the downtown area as the main reason for supporting the vote. Smyrna is within the inner ring of the Atlanta metropolitan area. \u201cIt\u2019s different than a restaurant, it\u2019s different than a coffee shop,\u201d Worthy said. \u201cIt\u2019s really a community gathering place that invites a lot of other visitors to downtown. It serves as a community center where folks can meet up, [it] increases foot traffic for other businesses downtown.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA Breakdown Of Smyrna\u2019s Controversial Decision To Sell Public Land To A Private Brewery\u201d<\/a> is a long form (more than 3,000 words) account of how and why the deal was made. <\/p>\n FOR READING OUT LOUD<\/strong> CREAM BEER<\/strong> As a silly aside, here\u2019s one of several suggestions why cream ale was called cream ale. In 1837, a dialogue called \u201cThe Beer Trial\u201d in the Journal of the American Temperance Union<\/em> drew attention to charges that brewers in Albany sold adulterated ale. It refers specifically to Albany Cream Ale, and a fellow named James, who was spotted drinking the beer by a friend, says, \u201cI asked why they called it Cream Ale, and they said it was because the foam looked yellow, like cream.\u201d<\/p>\n ICONIC<\/strong> – Crowd sourced.<\/a> Quite a list follows the question posed by Don Tse on Twitter. One thought after reading through suggestions is that you should know how to spell the name of a brand before calling it iconic. <\/p>\n THE OTHER SHOE<\/strong> – Marin Brewing Company shutting down<\/a> after almost 33 years. Marin opened in 1989 and won four medals at the Great American Beer Festival, three the next year and four the following year. The brewpub also laid claim to being the \u201cfirst and best brewery on the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE<\/strong> Can a brewery be good for a community? Last week the Smyrna, Georgia, city council voted to sell green space near the community center so a brewery can go there. Economic Development Director Andrea Worthy pointed to the revitalization of the downtown area as the main reason for supporting the vote. Smyrna is within the … 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":[703],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4nx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835","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=16835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16837,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835\/revisions\/16837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJust in time for Burns Night, Martyn Cornell has discovered a poem written in the form known as \u201cBurns stanza,\u201d an ode to \u201cGude Stout Ale.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAlan McLeod returns to a favorite topic, cream beer,<\/a> tying it to immigration, which included brewers with contemporary skills.<\/p>\n
\n– Thanks for the (UK) memories.<\/a><\/p>\n
\n– Three, or more, Connecticut breweries have closed or soon will.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCan a brewery be good for a community? 2021 by the numbers at Allagash Brewing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"