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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In my previous post, I tried to convey the difficulty I’ve had evaluating hazy IPAs. But in case there’s any confusion, this isn’t a criticism. I love IPAs of all hues and opacities. IPAs are awesome.
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Hazy IPAs are the most polarizing of beers—some people think they’re unique works of genius, and others spit them out with contempt. The problem is, we haven’t yet found mutual agreement about how to evaluate them. Also, a couple of inarguably excellent non-hazy IPAs from New England.
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