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It’s Fourth of July Eve and we are spending the week in a dry town. Let’s get right to it.<\/p>\n
The Problematic Culture of Overdrinking When You Work in Alcohol<\/strong><\/a> The Timeless Appeal of Drinking in Train Station Bars<\/a><\/strong> The 23 Best Cheap Domestic Beers, According to Brewers<\/a><\/strong> University of Wisconsin wouldn’t let J.J. Watt buy every graduate a beer when he was commencement speaker<\/a><\/strong> Portland’s Best Breweries<\/a><\/strong> The Return to the Classics: Talking Beer with Good Word and Schilling<\/a><\/strong> A: “Yes and no. We have a deep respect and affinity for certain styles of lagerbier that we believe require no \u201cboundary pushing.\u201d A great Munich-style Helles or Dunkel, for example, should be beautiful symmetries of hops, malts, yeast and water. Anything else detracts from these styles, in our view.<\/p>\n “However, many modern German brewers aren\u2019t opposed to playing around with dry hop schedules on a pilsner, for example. As we know, climate change in Europe (and elsewhere) is forcing a robust discussion on hop utilization. So there is progressivity and experimentation\u2013’boundary pushing’\u2013but we choose to do so as respectfully as possible and with a great deal of intentional, intra-team discussion. That said, you won\u2019t see an adjunct-ed lager from Schilling. There\u2019s a line we won\u2019t cross.”<\/p>\n Homebrewing<\/strong> “Homebrewing is at a crossroads right now. Involvement is declining, homebrew shops and clubs see less interest. Every neighborhood has a brewery or two. Why bother spending 4-8 precious weekend hours making beer that I can buy down the street in a minute?<\/p>\n “I cannot implore you enough \u2013 get out there, show people the creativity and positivity brewing encourages (even if you\u2019re grumpy like me) and for the love of all things beery \u2013 MAKE BEER, HAVE FUN, AND ENJOY THE PEOPLE!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s Fourth of July Eve and we are spending the week in a dry town. Let’s get right to it. The Problematic Culture of Overdrinking When You Work in Alcohol “De-stigmatizing sobriety and addressing alcohol use disorder head on can be challenging, but will help our friends and colleagues before they reach their own depths. … 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-17638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4Au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638","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=17638"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17648,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638\/revisions\/17648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“De-stigmatizing sobriety and addressing alcohol use disorder head on can be challenging, but will help our friends and colleagues before they reach their own depths. Resilience requires vulnerability, but it also gives us the chance to lift each other up.” <\/p>\n
\n“It might be a slightly smaller story in North America, but in the railway-prioritizing Old World, train station bars are much more common, in both upscale and dive incarnations.” A much smaller story in North America, I would say, sadly.<\/p>\n
\nIn fact, it’s not just brewers, and if domestic=mainstream industrial then I made a mistake by choosing Lagerado from Odell. A lot of love here Coors Banquet (keep scrolling to get to the Rockies). I almost feel like a traitor to Colorado history, but I am sticking with Lagerado.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI was talking to the university and said this is what I want to do. Spotted Cow is the best beer in Wisconsin. It\u2019s incredible. I want to put a Spotted Cow under every single seat in the stadium. I\u2019ll pay for it all \u2026 but at the end of the commencement speech I\u2019m gonna say \u2018now to congratulate you, just reach under your seat and have a cold one on me.\u2019”<\/p>\n
\n“The difference between Portland\u2019s 7th-best brewery and 17th-best is paper-thin. Indeed, if I wanted to establish Portland\u2019s bona fides in terms of overall quality, I\u2019d compare its second-ten best breweries up against any in the US. Portland is such a good beer town because the beer is so good across the city.”<\/p>\n
\nQ: “Do you think there\u2019s a tension between ‘the classics’ in terms of beer styles and experimentation and boundary pushing?”<\/p>\n
\n– BRÜLOSOPHY Homebrew Survey<\/a>
\n– Why homebrewing matters<\/a>
\nThe survey does not pretend to represent all homebrewers, but it makes you wonder how the hobby might find a wider audience. And about the crossroads Drew Beechum is referring to in the second link. <\/p>\n