Not much.
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In my nonscientific surveys of the pubs in which I drink, it seems there has been a transition underway: pilsners replacing pale ales as the standard session beer. I decided to check my work to see if this was really true.
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On Wednesday evening, July 31st, I will be moderating a cool event in which we speak to brewers who have begun making wine, including Alesong, Block 15, de Garde, Dwinell, and Garden Path Fermentation. Click through to learn more.
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Douglas Lager got a soft launch last fall, but an unexpected shortage of draft Rainier in Seattle offered a rare opportunity to expand this spring. I check in with this new project to create a domestic lager in the long lineage of the Northwest’s old breweries.
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On Tuesday, Michael Kiser issued an unexpected announcement about the site he founded fifteen years ago: Good Beer Hunting was ending its run. The next day, the Brewers Association announced that Bob Pease was stepping down as CEO after ten years in the job. Some thoughts about these big transitions.
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One study says drinking beer, even quite lightly, will shorten your life. Another study says mice who guzzle IPAs are protecting their DNA. So what’s the story here—is beer safe? Let’s have a deeper look.
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Portland’s annual Fuji to Hood is more than just a beer fest. “It allows the brewers to let go of preconceived notions of what beer should be or how we were taught to brew,” says regular participant Charles Porter of Little Beast Brewing.
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Global breweries can be optimized to make consistently good beer, but it’s rarely the most interesting. For the fierce defenders of tradition or restless experimenters, tinkerers making obscure styles on bespoke systems, or regional powers whose flagships have become national classics, you have to turn to the independents.
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Researchers at Beervana Amalgamated Sentences have been hard at work on the latest list in our series. Today, the ten best drinking experiences.
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A year ago, David Nilsen and Melinda Guerra launched Final Gravity, an old-school paper-copy zine. It may seem like a perverse move in our digital age, but its very tangibility has new salience in a world where the rest of words we read are mere pulses of light.
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Did you ever wonder if the art on a beer can might have been generated by AI? Increasingly, the answer is likely to be yes. Let’s look examples from two breweries to see where this is all headed.
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On Monday night, Cascade Brewing announced it was closing, effective immediately. It was one of the most indelible of the golden-age sour breweries, and its beers were truly unlike any others on the market. A remembrance.
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How many tanks are sitting empty in the brewing industry? Excess capacity is one way to assess the health of a market, and looking at figures from the Brewers Association, things don’t look good.
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No top ten breweries list this year. But I can’t leave you entirely in the lurch, so here’s Portland’s brewery of the year. As a fun factoid, it has never appeared on one of my top-ten lists, either. Who says beer isn’t exciting anymore?
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Cask ale is on life support in its home country, and it’s not because the beer isn’t delightful. When fresh, it is. The problem is that old orthodoxies have defended an indefensible method of serving, one that guarantees the beer goes stale very quickly. It never had to be this way.
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High school smoking and drinking is down sharply from highs a half-century ago. This is excellent news.
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In an ambitious new enterprise of Beervana Amalgamated Sentences, researchers have been assembled to identify the superlatives of the beer world. In today’s inaugural edition, they list the finest hops in the world.
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Chobani owner Hamdi Ulukaya has purchased Anchor Brewing, including the building, brewhouse, and brand. Who is Ulukaya and why did he buy the brewery?
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When a brewer tweaks the formula and gives a name to their new creation, we tend to want to use the lens of “style” to understand what’s happening. That’s not always the best way to think about things, though.
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Art Larrance, the founder of Portland Brewing and the Oregon Brewers Festival in the 1980s and the Raccoon Lodge and Cascade Brewing in the 1990s and 2000s, died over the weekend. He left a large legacy and helped create the culture that defines the state.
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