Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| Over the weekend, a discussion broke out on Facebook that led, as discussions often do, down a little side alley away from the main topic. It got me thinking. In the beer world, we spend countless hours discussing “bests.” Beers get the most attention, but breweries get a lot, too. (The Facebook discussion started out with this post about people lining up for hours just to buy a brewery’s beer.) The debates, inevitably, come to tears or smears because no one agrees about the definition. And there’s the rub–and opportunity.
It occurred to me that I have some criteria for what makes a top tier brewery. I’m talking here about the crème de la crème–the Duponts, Schenkerlas, and Sierra Nevadas. Some of them are so famous no one disputes their membership in this rare club, but most are not. When you survey the breweries of a country like the US, where there are so many of them and many are so recent, how would you distinguish the best from the rest–particularly lacking that agreed-upon con … |
Source: Beervana
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