John Duffy recently re-reviewed Molloy\u2019s Last Night coffee and cocoa imperial stout, a beer he didn\u2019t much care for the first time around.<\/p>\n
This time he writes,<\/a> \u201cLooking back now at the original review, it’s not a million miles different: the same elements were there but that sourness was pushed much higher, at least in my perception of the beer at the time. I would like to think that there was something bacterially askew with that can, but it could easily be down to the same beer hitting differently on a different day. Your mileage may vary; mine certainly does.\u201d<\/p>\n (T)he same beer may hit differently on a different day.<\/em> Not a shocking statement, and a reminder there is a flip side; that the beer that was great last week, last month, last summer suddenly isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n THE WHEELS KEEP TURNING<\/strong> The brewery will be closing soon,<\/a> not because of the pandemic but because their landlord is kicking them out and the hassle of moving isn\u2019t worth it. But the brand name is going to one company and the brewing equipment to another. <\/p>\n . . . AND TURNING<\/strong> THE EXCEPTION<\/strong> TWEET LIKE A MONK<\/strong> PROHIBITION<\/strong>
\nCottrell Brewing opened in Connecticut in 1996, the year the number of US breweries swelled past 1,000. Victory Brewing, Stone Brewing, Firestone Walker and several others that would grow well beyond micro-size also opened in 1996. Cottrell was small, but not that<\/em> small, producing 4,000 barrels in 2019, the year before the pandemic. More than 90 percent of the breweries in the country are smaller.<\/p>\n
\nStone Brewing co-founder Greg Koch writes an ode to Marin Brewing<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s been, what?, more than a decade since the Brewers Association rolled out the fact that most Americans live within 10 miles of a brewery. But if they live next to Katahdin Brew Works, it is a long way to the next brewery<\/a>, like 100 miles.<\/p>\n
\nA team of college professors and students is helping St. Joseph\u2019s Abbey in Spencer, Mass. \u2014 home of the only Trappist brewery in the United States \u2014 launch a social media marketing plan<\/a> for Spencer beers. \u201cTo be candid,\u201d says Father Isaac, who oversees the brewery, \u201cthe monastic lifestyle doesn\u2019t attract a lot of people who are skilled at (social media).\u201d (Nice photos; take a look.)<\/p>\n
\nHow American Authors Helped Push an Agenda of \u201cTemperance.\u201d About the drunkard,<\/a> a new character in American writing.<\/p>\n\n