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“If we called it DC Brau Light Lager, it’s not going to sell, because I’ve learned that there’s automatically a bias against craft beer in a large part of the population,” (CEO Brandon) Skall said.

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Part of this shift was driven by consumers discovering products they didn’t enjoy. In other cases, drinkers simply developed a clearer understanding of their preferences. The result was a return to familiar styles, including lagers, pale ales, and traditional IPAs.

h/t Alan McLeod.

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There is no easy way to read it.* I’m not reading it in the bath, it’s hard work in bed, and did I take it to read on my long journey to Utrecht? Did I bollocks! No way am I lugging it around either. So reading it something that can only be done by setting aside time in the evening and reading with it in resting on one of my legs. I’m currently about a third of the way through the book and reaching the end is not expected any time soon.

For more about The Session #150 see Boak & Bailey’s announcement.

* It = Martyn Cornell’s Porter and Stout: A Complete History.

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With a background in fine arts, I focus on design and refinement, coupled with an essential intellectual humility. I encourage peer review and believe all “institutional knowledge” is merely a hypothesis awaiting scientific editing. That said, I enjoy the occasional off-script random brew day, following what is in inventory and creating something wacky and undefinable.

The point of emphasis.

“institutional knowledge” is merely a hypothesis awaiting scientific editing.

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Prelude to a link. A bit of graffiti on a bathroom door at the Toronado (in San Francisco) once read, “Dave is God.” Then another customer added, “Dave is better than God.”

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“People need to get out from behind their phones, go to a bar and talk to each other,” (David Keene) said. “The Toronado has been a place where anybody from a punk rocker, a Deadhead, a strip mall developer, a motorcycle enthusiast and a conventioneer who’s a doctor could sit and start having conversations.”