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Take away the golden moonbeam The first time I met a friend\u2019s wife, a few minutes into a conversation that was bouncing about randomly and at a quickening pace, he said, \u201cDon\u2019t worry, his brain is hyperlinked.\u201d<\/p>\n I mention that because the first story linked to here posted last month, not last week, and I\u2019m going to totally spoil the ending by quoting it verbatim. And note the second time I read it I put on the soundtrack to The Fantasticks and fast forwarded to \u201cThis Plum is Too Ripe.\u201d The four lines at the top come from the song.<\/p>\n So here is \u201cYou Can Go Homebrew Again,\u201d<\/a> and the final paragraph: <\/p>\n \u201cWhile just about everyone that has brewed more than one batch of homebrew dreams of opening their own brewery, just about every brewery owner dreams of just being able to brew with the freedoms and joy of homebrewing.\u201d<\/p>\n The holiday spirit fills our house at the moment. We drove 160 miles round trip yesterday to cut a tree in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest. Doesn’t look like a farm tree, but it is a great tree. That\u2019s an explanation why brevity rules here this week, and likely the week after, and surely the week after and the week after.<\/p>\n Ingredients<\/strong> – S. eubayanus found alive and well and living in Ireland.<\/a><\/p>\n Hard times<\/strong> – In the UK. There may still be a demand for interesting beer, but smaller brewers are being shut out from the market they created.<\/a><\/p>\n – In the US. Shoppers are beginning to spend cautiously just as rising input costs push up beer prices.<\/a> <\/p>\n ‘Tis the season<\/strong> – A brewery for winter.<\/a><\/p>\n – A list.<\/a><\/p>\n Obituaries<\/strong> – Martin Morse Wooster.<\/a><\/p>\n Wine<\/strong> – Wrapping up this That Was The Beer Week That Was<\/em> with a little fun, because \u201cNothing says, \u2018Merry Christmas!\u2019 like wine-sodden guests hurling a bladed wood-cutting implement across the yard or garland-festooned living room.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Take away the golden moonbeam Take away the tinsel sky What at night seemed oh so scenic May be cynic by and by The first time I met a friend\u2019s wife, a few minutes into a conversation that was bouncing about randomly and at a quickening pace, he said, \u201cDon\u2019t worry, his brain is hyperlinked.\u201d … 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":[703,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-links","category-local-indigenous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4tO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224","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=17224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17237,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions\/17237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTake away the tinsel sky
\nWhat at night seemed oh so scenic
\nMay be cynic by and by<\/em><\/p>\n
\n– Early history of hops.<\/a> As is expected from Lars Garshol, a thorough and well documented examination of the use of hops in beer. I’ll comment more in Hop Queries<\/a> later this month, but for now. . . He mentions the 1970 discovery of a boat in the Kent region of England that was carrying a cargo of hops almost 1,100 years ago. In a 23-page paper that resulted, botanist D. Gay Wilson offers quite a bit about what was known about hops in beer at the time as well as a proper bit of skepticism about some attempts at history. I quoted this bit of wisdom from Wilson in “For the Love of Hops” and in several presentations since: \u201cBeer is a popular subject, and the literature abounds in unsupported statements, misleading or inaccurate quotations, and inadequate references.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n– In Chicago. \u201cI think, unfortunately, in the short term, this is going to get worse. I think this challenge is here for the foreseeable future.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
\n– What could be more true to the spirit of Christmas than standing in a crowded pub and singing Christmas carols?<\/a><\/p>\n
\n– Ray McNeill, via All About Beer<\/a> and via The Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n– Terroir.<\/a> <\/p>\n