Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| In 17 days, this here blog will celebrate it’s tenth birthday. That naturally puts an old geezer like me in a nostalgic mood: ah, youth!, remember those salad days, back when I was a mere pup of 38!? It got me thinking that, in the 40-year scope of the modern American brewing revival, we really only came into modernity in the past decade. But it also gets me thinking about the future. If the past decade was the pivotal moment when American brewing came into focus both in terms of size and tradition, what then of the next decade?
I suspect it will all be about independence. A recent blog post by Charlie Papazian brought things into focus for me. In it, he musters a hearty defense for the organization he founded and nurtured, arguing for the two, unrelated prongs that have long formed the confused mission of the Brewers Association (independence and “authenticity”). It’s that second one that has never been very defensible. His post was inspired by the threat buy-outs pose to small brewerie … |
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