Following each new disruption, I keep looking for a return. Normalcy can’t be that hard to restore. Yet each disruption carries darker connotations than the event itself. I feel the need to publicly acknowledge that sense of danger the small animal feels. It has been growing in me for years now.
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As our beer journey unfolds, our sense of flavor changes. That can cause our memories to drift as well. Fortunately, we can turn to “calibration” beers to remind us what the past was actually like.
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Bits and bobs as Portlanders brace for a heat wave that may well melt half of us.
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In the final post of Teri Fahrendorf’s remarkable career, we hear how she created the Pink Boots Society, the nonprofit that has given thousands of women support and connections in their professional lives.
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In the second of three posts about pioneering brewer Teri Fahrendorf’s remarkable career, we hear how it was to enter the brewing world in the late 1980s, and how she built Steelhead into a regional chain.
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With her sterling career as a professional brewer and groundbreaking work in bringing women into the industry through the Pink Boots Society, no American has had a greater impact on brewing than Teri Fahrendorf. Here’s part one of her oral history.
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Last night, former employees charged BrewDog with creating a workplace fueled by fear. This follows charges of transphobia in March. It’s an important moment of accountability for BrewDog—and craft brewing.
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A comment by the Beeronomist highlights where craft beer is headed in a post-pandemic era in which large companies have abandoned beer for seltzers and FMBs as more reliable vehicles for national sales. Depending on how and where you look at that situation, it paints an alternatingly comforting or alarming picture.
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A provocative piece in this month’s Atlantic argues that “America has a drinking problem.” But does it? The evidence paints a fuller, more prosaic picture: things have been very stable for a decade now.
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