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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