Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| On Friday, I had the great pleasure to visit Book Passage, a fantastic independent bookstore in Corte Madera (Marin County), just north of San Francisco for a Beer Bible-related event. And thanks to their wonderful pre-planning, I learned something incredibly valuable.
To make it a fun and memorable event, they had arranged to have some beer on hand for tasting: Russian River Beatification and Pliny the Elder, Lagunitas Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’, and Anchor Porter. I decided to incorporate the beers into a little presentation about the book. As I’ve been going along, I’ve been focusing on the nature of “style,” and how it comes together as a result of a tangle of interesting factors (history, national tradition, ingredients, technology, war, and law). Having four beers there meant we could go through them and I could tell the story of the style as we went. Plus, it game me an opportunity to describe beer tasting and what to look for. We started out with the Beatification, which is Russian R … |
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