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| That time of year is upon us, when in the dark and cold and dearth of news we cast our gaze backward at the year to see what to make of it. This isn’t entirely in service of generating clicks–it is sometimes worthwhile to remind ourselves of events past and see if they tell us anything relevant about life in the present.
January always starts slow, and because I was in Europe doing research for my cider book (Cider Made Simple), I was out of the loop. Not entirely out of the loop, though; I did manage to catch the reports of a beer called “Mouth Raper.” A nice controversy to warm up a frigid month (with a follow-up here). The incident sheds very little light on anything, except 1) that the sheer number of beers made each year means the likelihood of at least one of them offending people is 100%, and 2) people really, really take beer seriously. Number (2) is a theme we shall return to in due course. In February, the OLCC released final numbers on 2013, and we learned that a new c … |
Source: Beervana
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