People may have been observing the rise of low or no alcohol beers.
I can’t help but see this as a good thing but this article also digs into the history behind America’s brewing scene, and talking about the changing landscape of tastes in the craft brewing arena.
Neat stuff!
With the ‘fresh hop’ beers coming on strong, I thought this article on hop farming as a cool insight into that part of the industry.
While my setup isn’t very complicated, I still found some value in this article talking about safe practices while brewing.
That article might be of more use to readers who have more complex brewing setups but even for someone like myself who is fairly low to the ground, keeping in mind how to use your cleaning agents, making sure you’ve got gloves to protect your hands, and other tips are never bad ones to keep in mind.
With all of the other changes the pandemic has wrought, I’m sad to hear that beer bars are on the decline.
I don’t know how long that will be the case: places like Bailey’s were always incredibly lively when I would visit. Clearly there is a space in the market for beer bars, staffed by knowledgeable folk. Hell, you could argue that Portland’s Beer Bunker or Proper Pint are living and thriving examples of this.
But we still lost some cultural institutions and that’s a bummer.
Because if its inherent properties as a carbonated beverage, you really can’t take beer into space.
But this is an area where my interest in potent potables and my interest in science definitely converge, so I dig on this article on the impact of aging wine in space!
At least in the current scenario, the beer of the future is awful.
Look. It doesn’t have to be like this. And I honestly believe that we know it doesn’t have to be like this.
This article is a long one but I think it’s worth your eyeballs. There’s a lot of stories that go into the craft beer world and not a few of them are sidling riiiight up to mythology-and usually the kind of myth that tells everyone just how awesome they are.
Or the industry is. Or how very badly they want to be crusaders of the “little guy” against corporate beer.
But there’s a lot more to the story, and like anything, some reflection is due.
Every city is a beer city now, despite this article’s question.
There is almost assuredly more than one applicable phrase to our times at large from this story about trying to change antiquated liquor laws, but that’s almost certainly the best one.
Housing? Things are bad on purpose. Policing? Things are bad on purpose. Climate policy? Things are-
Well, you get the idea.
However, the flipside of that is that a group of people coming together can make changes. But the effort to make that change is one that needs constant assistance, from what I can tell.
I’ve known for a long time that initially, women were the ones who brewed beer: a family staple, brewing often fell to them.
Some, as you might expect, got good enough at it that they started selling it at markets.
And I’d always figured that, with the industrial revolution, men just muscled their way into the field and pushed women out.
Buuuuut…no, No of course it’s a little worse than that.
