Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| I’m a bit short for blogging time this week, though there is a remarkable post over at Oregon Hops and Brewing Archive that will feature prominently in (hopefully very near) future posts. A trove of documents reveals what the state of brewing was like in the late Carter administration as Chuck Coury struggled to make one of America’s first microbreweries a viable enterprise.
I don’t want to step on that blogging too much, but suffice it to say that what brewers and drinkers understood then–a long time by one measure, but well within living memory–was shockingly primitive. That article contrasts nicely with a piece that provoked a lot of debate on the nature of Session IPAs. In that post, Londoner Mark Dredge argues that there’s nothing sessionable about this style. Unsurprisingly, his British commenters all offer their hear-hears (as did Alan, in a thread that sadly took place on Facebook). I’ll leave aside for a moment my strong dissent of Mark’s point–“sessionable” may be a British … |
Source: Beervana
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