Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| People who read this blog know well enough what a beer style is; it’s the label on the bottle–“stout,” “gose,” “IPA”–that tells us what kind of beer we should expect to find inside. It’s the thing we fight about when the Brewers Association releases its annual judging guidelines, the quality that helps us assess whether a beer has been well-brewed or not. But if you think more deeply about style, you will come to see that it is actually a fascinating story that comprises the origins and development of that style as inflected by national brewing tradition, cultural preferences, ingredients, and even things as seemingly unlikely as war, famine, and taxes. Other fermented beverages like cider and wine are reflections of place. Beer is a constructed beverage, more like food, and beer style is akin to the cuisines of the world: they reflect the people that brewed them.
If you went around to the countries famous for their brewing traditions and asked them to serve you a “dark beer,” you’d g … |
Source: Beervana
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