Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| I knew when I wrote the Beer Bible that it would have errors, and I hoped none of them would be too serious. My blog posts regularly have errors; there was no way a 644-page book was going to be born unscathed. One thing I didn’t anticipate was making an error in the acknowledgements–and it’s a big one.
Among the most important–and least heralded–heroes in the craft beer renaissance were importers. Americans were wholly ignorant of world brewing traditions back in the 1970s and ’80s, and as breweries started making new, full-flavored beers, they had to educate consumers about the beers they were trying to sell them. American craft breweries have in the past decade developed their own vernacular, but at the outset, they were reproducing European styles. The best way to teach people about those styles was pointing them to the breweries who had already mastered them. Enter the importers. They formed that knowledge bridge that was a critical precursor for the development of craft brewing. … |
Source: Beervana
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