Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| A little Saturday morning chin-scratcher for you to mull. Stan links to an article about the famous “judgment of Paris” in the wine world and wonders:
What if Fritz Maytag had not bought Anchor Brewing in 1965? What if the committee charged in 1906 with interpreting the meaning of the Pure Food and Drug Act had decided to implement some sort of legal differentiation between all malt and adjunct beer, or enacted a proposal that lager beer be required to lager at least three months? (Both were considered and rejected.) What if the USDA had not released the Cascade hop variety in 1972? In comments, I suggested that there is no analogue in the beer world. It’s just impossible to imagine that beer would remain the one product immune to the post-industrial return to quality and diversity that came to all the other products on the grocery shelves. But there’s a side debate here–one Stan and I have been batting back and forth for years. When we look at the landscape of American brewing now, wha … |
Source: Beervana
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