{"id":663,"date":"2008-11-30T14:19:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T21:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/being-right-and-wrong-about-the-new-yorker\/"},"modified":"2008-11-30T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T21:19:54","slug":"being-right-and-wrong-about-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/being-right-and-wrong-about-the-new-yorker\/","title":{"rendered":"Being right and wrong about the New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"

I give Jeff Allworth credit for bucking the crowd<\/a> and suggesting the New Yorker feature<\/a> on Sam Calagione and Dogfish Head Brewery wasn’t perfect in every way.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t.<\/p>\n

But his post titled “Wrong” is just as wrong when he writes “I see that he [Burkhard Bilger] has done a great injustice to the world of craft brewing” and that “Calagione’s model for brewing seems to be: pull something out of your ass, think it through incompletely, run with it, and sneer ‘neener neener’ at the naysayers along the way.”<\/p>\n

In the second case he totally overlooks innovative and terrifically drinkable beers. Later he implies that Dogfish Head’s brewing style is less than disciplined — despite the fact the story documents Dogfish Head’s growing level of sophistication when it comes to quality control.<\/p>\n

That’s not my real point, since Sam hardly needs my help defending himself. Instead . . .<\/em> My initial reaction to the story was “How can you write about ‘extreme beer’ and not mention a brewery whose clock is not set to Eastern Standard Time?” Then I refocused and viewed it as a feature on one brewery (and its founder). It gets a lot better.<\/p>\n

Jeff’s post makes me realize others viewed the story as I did on first reading. So he’s right. Even if he’s wrong.<\/p>\n

Further reading:<\/strong> The Beer Advocate discussion<\/a> includes input from the author, Sam and plenty of Garrett Oliver (in case you missed it).<\/p>\n

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