With the California wildfires in full swing, and Portland being covered in smoke from fires in Washington and Oregon, this article on how climate change is going to affect the taste of beer seems…timely.
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Neat
There isn’t a lot of great news these days but this article on Philadelphia’s first wholly Black owned brewery is pretty cool.
CO2 Absorption
This is a pretty wild story about a brewery using algae to help reduce it’s CO2 footprint. Any cool story right now is one I will take.
Good & Bad
NPR did a story about what beer sales are telling us about the impact the pandemic/recession is having on the beer industry.
One element that stood out to me, though was this:
“You know, we didn’t really see craft or imports or super premium lose share in the last recession,” he says. That’s because, he says, the recession didn’t inflict as much pain on the class of people who tend to drink Session IPAs, artisanal Porters, Belgian Lambics and Saison pale ales. Likewise, in this pandemic and recession, craft beer drinkers are more likely to have the luxury of working remotely, keeping their jobs and spending a few extra bucks on beverages with flavor.
Now, on the one hand I’m thrilled that craft beer has been doing well. All things considered, well, anyway.
On the other hand, I cannot help but notice how the group of people who are able to support the industry are people who do not have to risk their lives. Unlike the people in the industry who make the thing they love.
Hmmm
There are brewers in Colorado who are, to put it understandably but not quite correctly, using ‘hop oil’ (terpenes) to replace the use of traditional hops in beer.
It’s a fascinating look at the potential level of flavor control that these new technology might bring to beer.
Break Up Big Beer
Yes.
Also, big tech, big media, and big banks.
Fun l’il anecdote to this: I found this story via Reddit and one of the comments, from someone who hadn’t and clearly wasn’t interested in reading the story, went:
“Why? They make decent beer (ed.-later clarified as Bud Light, Busch, Coors) for cheap.”
My dude, “Let poor people drink shitty beer” is not the argument that you think it is.
Everything Starts Somewhere
Pretty cool interview with Charlie Papazan who is credited with re-starting the American homebrew (and by extension, craft brewing) scene.
Desperate Times
I wish stories like this weren’t billed as ‘feel good’ moments.
This person shouldn’t have to move into their workspace and lose their home in order to keep the life they’ve built.
Good on him, and I’ve heard good stuff about Lowercase Brewing.
But still. Things didn’t have to be like this-and shouldn’t be like this.
Repurposing
With beer literally being poured down the drain, it’s cool to see some breweries doing what they can to keep their product from being wasted.
There Is Only So Much
Look, I’m not suggesting that people go overboard drinking during the pandemic. But c’mon, WHO, do you really have to do us like that?
