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This images was taken from a greeting card, and was captioned, “Where hipster gnomes gather; ‘Yes! More small batch beer and hancrafted sausages for all!” Perhaps this will cause you to think about hipster beer drinkers in a different way. See below.<\/em><\/p>\n More than 15 years ago, The New Yorker published \u201cA Better Brew: The Rise of Extreme Beer.\u201d<\/a> Last fall, Dave Infante interviewed Burkhard Bilger,<\/a> who wrote the story, for Taplines. Read the article, listen to the podcast, when you have a chance. <\/p>\n The New Yorker invested a good chunk of change to put this story on the page. Bilger went to Europe, to Delaware, to the Great American Beer Festival and elsewhere, across many days of work. How many stories in small beer-focused publications would have been funded with what was spent on a single story? It was and is an outlier, but toss it into the mix when you write a blog post in your mind based on:<\/p>\n – What Boak & Bailey wrote about \u201cbeer writing\u201d<\/a> in their most recent newsletter. <\/p>\n This week\u2019s dispatch is short because Daria and I are headed home after a week in Atlanta. She was doing the sorts of things people get regular paychecks for. One of these months, I\u2019ll write about what I was doing. For now, one observation.<\/p>\n On a Friday night longer ago than I want to admit, I was at a newspaper staff party, talking to a doctor who was married to a woman I worked with. What sits inside quotation marks is really a paraphrase, after all it was that long ago. \u201cIs work all you ever talk about? This isn\u2019t what happens when the people I work with get together. You all are obsessed,\u201d he might have said. <\/p>\n It can be a burden, having something to say and nowhere to say it.<\/p>\n * Pardon the McLeod asterisk, but I am embarrassed, flattered, and a little surprised (perhaps skeptical) by the idea he does the sifting for me. The takeaway, to his credit, is a reminder of something all writers should remember: who the heck they think they are writing for.<\/p>\n QUOTE OF THE WEEK<\/strong><\/p>\n “In New Jersey about 10% of our tap handles are dedicated to in-state breweries. The national average is 26%, and in states where they really support craft beer, it can get as high as 50%. We are at the absolute bottom, and the bottom line is, New Jersey bars and restaurants do not support local breweries.”<\/p>\n — Ross Coczza in “NJ breweries continue to close. Here’s why it will keep happening.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n YOU MIGHT ALSO ENJOY<\/strong><\/p>\n – Hipster Beer Is Dead. Long Live \u2018Lifestyle\u2019 Beer.<\/a><\/strong> I think the relationship, if there is one, between hip and hipster has me confused. Were the bike messengers who drank PBR hip, hipsters, or something else? Was PBR itself ever hip? <\/p>\n – Douglas Lager: When Micros Go Macro.<\/a><\/strong> I think this might be related to the hipster story. \u201cWe love bottles. We were only going to do bottles so people could see the branding and see that it was old-school.\u201d<\/p>\n – Munich to open alcohol-free beer garden.<\/a><\/strong> It is called Die Null<\/em> (The Zero). It will operate until Sept. 15, one week before Oktoberfest begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This images was taken from a greeting card, and was captioned, “Where hipster gnomes gather; ‘Yes! More small batch beer and hancrafted sausages for all!” Perhaps this will cause you to think about hipster beer drinkers in a different way. 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\n– Alan McLeod\u2019s comments and further thoughts.<\/a>*
\n– Evan Rail\u2019s still fresh essay<\/a> about the same subject.
\n– Matthew Curtis on publishing and sustainability.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Yoho](\"https:\/\/kfi.jpm.mybluehost.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240722-glass.jpg\")
– A new twist on “slow beer.”<\/a><\/strong> Seventeen years ago, Boston Beer introduced the Samuel Adams Boston Lager drinking glass, suitable for drinking other beers as well. It arrived with a certain amount of hoopla,<\/a> and drinkers still use the glass today. Now, Yoho Brewing in Japan has invented a, well, stranger looking glass. It is also meant to deliver a pleasant drinking experience, but, as important, to “put the brakes” during the drinking process. This after a survey by the company found that the No. 1 reason for excessive drinking, at 57.2 percent, was, “I tend to drink at a faster pace when I drink with others.” <\/p>\n