Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| Yesterday, I discussed the beer Cartwright Brewing made when it launched an early microbrewery in Portland in 1980. It was definitely the most interesting part of the papers posted by The Oregon Hops and Brewing Archive. But there is an element that’s almost as interesting. Chuck Coury, Cartwright’s founder, came to the project from wine-making. He’d already seen the change that had taken place in wine, and he gave an incredibly prescient overview of where beer was heading. (Although a small handful of American microbreweries had opened within the year or two before Coury started thinking about opening his own, they were far too new and tiny to suggest that any of his predictions were imminent.)
In the review he made of his own project at the time, here’s what he observed about the coming beer market:
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Source: Beervana
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