During an annual deep clean, I surfaced a small cache of personal memories.
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Consolidation among craft brewers happens so often most people just shrug at the announcement of a new acquisition. One small brewer explains why you should care.
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For the most successful of craft breweries, “independence” is increasingly a losing proposition.
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We have a guest for the first event! I’ve got further updates and logistics to report as well. If you haven’t signed up yet, now’s a good time!
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Monster Beverage announced the purchase of Canarchy today, a collective composed of the breweries Cigar City, Oskar Blues, Deep Ellum, Perrin, Squatters, and Wasatch. The deal was valued at $330 million.
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So we bid adieu not just to Saint Archer, but the over-exuberance of an era that thought a buying such a brewery was a good bet. I don’t expect to see Molson Coors buying another small, two-year-old brewery founded by a bunch of surfers anytime soon.
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Media in general has gone through a massive transition in the past decade with the rise of social media, the death of magazines, the arrival of podcasting, and, lately, a sort-of return to blogging in the form of email newsletters. But if you think blogs have no place in today’s media, you couldn’t be more wrong.
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Prague’s U Fleků makes the iconic Czech dark lager, so much so they eschew terms like tmavý and cerne. Their’s is a “Flekovský ležák.” In my latest collaboration, this time with Zoiglhaus, we shoot for an homage. It’s a dead-on banger (no bias), but we didn’t dare name it Flekovský.
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A new brewery in Scotland specializes in vat-aged beers that draw on traditions of previous centuries (as well as this one). Founder Gareth Young, a former university philosopher, has discovered an important style once brewed in his home town: Glasgow porter. He explains herein.
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I have an annual tradition of posting some of my favorite photos from the preceding year. It’s my way of documenting the places I’ve been and the experiences I’ve had. Here’s this year’s batch.
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We have a new volunteer coordinator, and this year the Beervana Community will be bigger and better than ever. Here are the details on what we have planned and how you can participate.
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Just a reminder that, while there may be 9,000 breweries in the United States and thousands elsewhere, most of the beer in the world is made by very few titans.
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2021 wasn’t, it must be said, the most delightful of years. In this review I trot through some of the key events that made it so. In terms of beer years? It was possibly the best ever (especially if you like pilsner). I mention my very, very faves.
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Some years you get sugar plums dancing in your head, some years you get ashes and soot. But every year we can celebrate the fellowship of our family and friends.
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We need to talk about a new product from the Anheuser-Busch InBev corporation of São Paulo/Leuven/New York: Bud Light Seltzer Hard Soda. If the string of adjectives and nouns in that title makes sense to you, and it almost certainly does, something weird has happened.
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I had tried to avoid going straight to a lager brewery when I walked into Wild East, thinking even then I was on target. I planned on seeing Finback and painting my tongue green with hops. But beer cares nothing for my plans. It has its own agenda.
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“I love these beers and this tradition,” Ben told me (I didn’t take notes and I’m paraphrasing.) “But it feels a bit strange to be making a perfect recreation of a German beer. I wonder what an American lager would look like if we developed a tradition as rich as Franconia’s.”
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pFriem put together a great video of our Wiener Lager collaboration. I look old and haggard, but there are many shots of sparkling golden lager you can’t miss.
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Last year about sixty brave and generous readers joined me in a social experiment I called the Beervana Community. Here’s a report about how it went, good and bad, and a proposal for how it might continue in 2022.
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I was pleased to see his eyebrows shoot up during his first sip, and I caught him murmur “this is good” as he placed the glass back on the bar.
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