I’m off on a grand adventure—some programming notes before I go, and a request for any hot tips you might have.
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Defunct companies are almost never resurrected—but that’s exactly what happened this morning when All About Beer came back on line. Veteran writers Andy Crouch and John Holl performed the miracle.
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Elon Musk’s potential purchase of Twitter (pending approval) gives me a good opportunity to talk about speech, public squares, and the curious way in which regulation encourages more participation.
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Finally, the Beervana Blog delivers exactly what you want in 2022—a 1997 feature! Get out those AOL addresses, friends, because today the blog offers new email subscriptions. Sign up today!
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All the world wants the next IPA. The trouble is that, while they’re churning out scores of new versions every year, too few breweries have the time to dial in their beers.
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The 1926 warehouse at southeast 7th and Morrison has housed two breweries—the Commons and more recently Modern Times—and in July it will get a third. Called Living Haüs Beer Company, it is the project of three established brewers and will focus on lager.
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Molson Coors-owned Hop Valley announced they were reviving Henry Weinhard’s Private Reserve. But they did so on April 1. A week later, Molson Coors wrote a blog post expanding on the news. Was it real? A joke? And if it’s real, does it make any sense?
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The Oregon Beer Awards, always curious about new ways to evaluate excellence, this year debuted a new method designed to limit the inevitable randomness of a beer competition. The results showed judging isn’t so random—but can be improved.
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Among living beer styles, rare is the is the case where a single beer accounts for the survival of a whole tradition, but it’s mostly true in the case of saison. Well, a single beer, an English writer, and an American importer.
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The Brewers Association released preliminary numbers on how breweries did in 2021 today. It includes some good news, some surprises, and very little bad news. I have the highlight findings, and a nice list of how this year’s top-50 breweries fared over the past year.
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