{"id":18926,"date":"2025-02-24T06:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=18926"},"modified":"2025-03-08T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T19:10:15","slug":"monday-feb-14-beer-links-tiny-going-low-sessionable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/monday-feb-14-beer-links-tiny-going-low-sessionable\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Feb. 24 beer links: Tiny, going low & sessionable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks for the thumbs up from Todd last week about focusing only on pleasure. I’ll be doing that Friday when Boak & Bailey host The Session #144: The best beer you can drink at home right now.<\/a> Meanwhile, a little chin scratching along with pleasure and not necessarily great news.<\/p>\n

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I was born in the \u201950s, raised in the \u201960s and \u201970s. Both sides of my family have always been pretty healthy. I\u2019ve been smokin\u2019 dope, drinkin\u2019 beer, and wine, and whiskey, and tequila, and vodka, and smokin\u2019 cigarettes my entire life. If somebody comes from the surgeon general and says that a few beers are gonna cause cancer, I\u2019m gonna tell them to kiss my ass.”<\/p>\n

                    — Rex Porter, Lakeview, Arkansas
\nFrom Americans are Rethinking How and Why They Drink<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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THINK SMALL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tiny beers through history<\/a><\/strong> Walk (well, read) through the process of developing a theory, and stay for the lovely illustrations. “All study of history is an inexact science, reflecting the current state of our knowledge and discovery.”<\/p>\n

How Low Can You Go?<\/a><\/strong> This is the a good chunk of a longer post from Beer Crunchers; you’ll need a subscription to read it all. I don’t subscribe, but if I were in the business of making and\/or selling beer I would certainly consider it. This post offers quite a bit at no charge, including a list of 15 reasons to drink 2.5% ABV beer, starting with “Because the last time you drank big beers you had to leave the family minivan at Top Golf.”<\/p>\n

Remember The Session Beer Project?<\/a><\/strong> I do. It is fun to sift through the archives.<\/p>\n

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HMMMM<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the American Craft Brewing Hall of Fame.<\/a><\/strong> Jeff Alworth writes about his “confusion about why the Hall of Fame exists.” When he posted a link on Bluesky to this post, Jeremy Danner<\/a> commented, “Can you imagine how mind numbingly boring it would be to visit the beer HOF?” For the record, I provided nominations and I voted in the election. I nominated Joe Owades (cited within the post), not because of the role he played in developing light beer, but because he was a key advisor to the early giants of microbrewing (even if the beer was not made a small breweries; goodness those were confusing times) such as Boston Beer and Pete’s Wicked Ale.<\/p>\n

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As you will see when you read the entire post, people like to talk about this. Want still more comments? Visit the Beervana page on Facebook.<\/p>\n

The soft brewery boycott: disenchantment and ennui.<\/a><\/strong> For me, this was the most interesting post of the week to think about. There are beers I choose not to drink today for non-beer reasons, but I don’t think I have experienced this: “At The Kings Head in Bristol last Sunday, seeing one of (Magic Rock’s) beers on the bar just made us feel sad \u2013 like bumping into an ex, or a friend with whom you\u2019ve parted ways. Those associations we\u2019d formed between Magic Rock and joy have been replaced by feelings of melancholy, regret and \u2013 if it\u2019s not too dramatic \u2013 betrayal.”<\/p>\n

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ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Different Class \u2014 The Rutland Arms, Sheffield.<\/a><\/strong> I want to drink here. I want to break the rules when choosing what to play on the jukebox. “The jukebox policy at the Rutty is notorious. Insert your pound but choose wisely, abiding by the rules on the chalkboard above. The \u2018permabanned\u2019 list features local acts\u2014Arctic Monkeys, Pulp, Richard Hawley\u2014and the sort of bands that Guardian<\/em> readers know they should never admit to liking: U2, Frank Turner, Foo Fighters, et al. And Taylor Swift, she\u2019s also permabanned, though I suspect it didn\u2019t need saying. Staff decide what\u2019s in the \u2018Recommended\u2019 and \u2018Forbidden\u2019 columns according to whims, mainly, with a hint of current affairs-based silliness. Even co-owner Chris Bamford can\u2019t overrule it.”<\/p>\n

Rutland Arms + 9.<\/a><\/strong> The London Times has added a regular beer column, and it is OK to wonder why some US newspaper isn’t doing the same. Pete Brown — you might have heard of him — will be reporting weekly, he writes at Bluesky<\/a>: “This column will run for as long as it gets engagement. It\u2019s the ONLY regular beer column to run in a UK broadsheet newspaper or magazine, first one for over 20 years. If you\u2019d like it to stay there, and you can access it, please CLICK, DWELL AND COMMENT if you can.” <\/p>\n

A Belfast Beer Break.<\/a><\/strong> We could have used this list when we were in Belfast. As it is, I managed to find the worst Timothy Taylor Landlord of my life.<\/p>\n

Bad Beer Be Gone.<\/a><\/strong> This seems like a good idea, but then I live in Colorado.<\/p>\n

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OUCH<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. Hops Business Is in Bad Shape.<\/a><\/strong> I’m quoted within, but otherwise good stuff.<\/p>\n

Britain loses 100 breweries in a year.<\/a><\/strong> 41 breweries closed in Colorado. Just throwing the numbers out there. Do with them what you will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks for the thumbs up from Todd last week about focusing only on pleasure. I’ll be doing that Friday when Boak & Bailey host The Session #144: The best beer you can drink at home right now. Meanwhile, a little chin scratching along with pleasure and not necessarily great news. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK … 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-18926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4Vg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926","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=18926"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18968,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926\/revisions\/18968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}