Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| I have always had a bit of trouble dating this blog precisely. By the time I started it, I had already been blogging for a few years in the political sphere.* The first post, really just a placeholder, consisted of four words and went live on January 20, 2006. Things sat idle for more than a month. I did occasional beer blogging at BlueOregon, one of the sites I co-founded, and I started moving those posts over here in February. The first actual post came on Feb 26, a review of a now long-forgotten BridgePort experiment called Supris.
In the life of a blogger, ten years counts as a significant amount of time. In the life of beer, it’s so short you can’t even see it. In the life of American beer, it’s more than you’d imagine. At the end of 2005, there were fewer than 1500 breweries in the US, which was actually fewer than there were in 1999. Craft breweries made just 7 million barrels then (when “craft beer” was actually a pretty discrete category). They brewed 22 million in 2014 and wil … |
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