Is this a sign of maturity? At least a bit of what’s new these days just might be old, meaning “retro beers” don’t have a monopoly on nostalgia. <\/p>\n
First, Bill Brand reports that New Albion Ale will be back for SF Beer Week.<\/a> He’s got the details in his pdf newsletter, but check his blog<\/a> for updates. Basically, Don Barkley — who worked with Jack McAuliffe at New Albion — pulled out an old ledger McAuliffe started and found a recipe.<\/p>\n Barkley brewed the “new” New Albion Ale at Napa Smith, the winery-brewery he recently went to work for after retiring form Mendocino Brewing.<\/p>\n You can see photos of a much younger Barkley in “MICROBREWERS: 1981 – 1996: A Photo History”<\/a> (this link goes to a promo at YouTube). The self-published book contains hundreds of photographs of microbrewery pioneers along with commentary. It costs $64.95 (details)<\/a>.<\/p>\n What I’m really looking forward to is Jay Sheveck’s “Beer Pioneers,”<\/a> a documentary he hopes to have ready in 2010. He’s been working on this for more than 10 years, and is still<\/em> collecting interviews. He posted a teaser at Facebook<\/a> that’s certainly worth your time. (Please read the text here as well.)<\/p>\n He’s even got footage of the elusive Mr. McAuliffe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Is this a sign of maturity? At least a bit of what’s new these days just might be old, meaning “retro beers” don’t have a monopoly on nostalgia. First, Bill Brand reports that New Albion Ale will be back for SF Beer Week. He’s got the details in his pdf newsletter, but check his blog … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-eu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} <\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"