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This a take is from a wine guy, but perfectly relevant to beer: “The best notes go back and forth, some sentences, some fragments, and this is right and proper. “We are following the squirmings of an animated mind attempting to grope with the limitations of languages and with kinetic information that moves faster than it can be apprehended. ALREADY 3 CONTENDERS FOR 2021 HOP ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Already 3 contenders for 2021 hop rookie of the year. March 22, 2021. August 26, 2020. New hop varieties from Australia and New Zealand* will be headed to the United States after the harvest down under next March and April, so competition for 2021 hop rookie of the year is going to be interesting. Don’t bet against Talus from the HopBreeding
NEW LAGER FRIENDLY HOPS New lager friendly hops. September 3, 2020. August 19, 2020. When a new hop variety is given a name these days many brewers have a good idea what she will smell and taste like in beers because 10 years or more may pass before a seed turns into a plant that farmers and brewers can trust. Many breweries will have participated in trials to WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE BEER YOU ARE TASTING More adjectives: 107 words to describe hop aroma and flavor. Until robots take over our tasting world we’re left to consider how to communicate the aromas and flavors we experience with beer.. A review of “Perfumes: The Guide” in the current New Yorker magazine makes that point.. The words and the references are really useful only to people who have had the same experiences and use BEFORE OBERON WAS OBERON; A LARRY BELL STORY You might have overlooked this bit of news yesterday from Molson Coors: “Molson Coors and Heineken announced today that MillerCoors later this year will start distributing, marketing and selling the Mexican import Sol in the United States.”. Shrug, be excited, whatever. For me this provdes an excuse to tell a Larry Bell story. And Larry Bell stories are the best kind of beer stories. CATTLE, SPENT GRAIN, AND HOPS Cattle, spent grain, and hops. April 2, 2014. No surprise that the Brewers Association and Beer Institute have come out so firmly against a proposal that would make it harder and more expensive for breweries to sell or give away their spent grains. (The BA’s statement is here.) If the Food and Drug Adminstration does not afford some sort of HOP UNION HOP AROMA WHEEL I’d love to see somebody tackle it. It requires being a little bold – being willing to differentiate between flavors/aromas not obviously different: citrus, fruit, stone fruit, and tropic fruit. Not everybody will agree, but they don’t need to. This is a tool for brewers. Not a pass/fail quiz for drinkers. NO AMARILLO, CASCADE, CENTENNIAL, CHINOOK, CITRA, GALAXY Warrior is a fine choice for a bittering hop and Calypso and Mandarina Bavaria are two examples of all the new “impact hops” Simply Hops left eligible – such as Ekuanot (the new name for Equinox), Lemondrop, Denali, El Dorado, African Queen, or Taiheke. OLYMPIA BREWERY TRADITION SURVIVES Olympia brewery tradition survives. November 1, 2012. June 11, 2007. This is the sort of “blast from the past” we all should appreciate. The Olympian reports that Fish Brewing has revived the tradition of blowing a steam whistle at 5 p.m. to mark the end of a workday, just as the Olympia Brewing Co. did for years in nearbyTumwater.
SAM ADAMS SHARING HOPS WITH SMALLER BREWERS Sam Adams sharing hops with smaller brewers. November 2, 2012. February 15, 2008. Jim Koch sent a big old hops valentine to smaller breweries on Thursday. Ten tons worth. He told them that Boston Beer, brewer of the Samuel Adams beers, will sell 20,000 pounds of hops that otherwise would not be available to smaller breweries.APPELLATION BEER
This a take is from a wine guy, but perfectly relevant to beer: “The best notes go back and forth, some sentences, some fragments, and this is right and proper. “We are following the squirmings of an animated mind attempting to grope with the limitations of languages and with kinetic information that moves faster than it can be apprehended. ALREADY 3 CONTENDERS FOR 2021 HOP ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Already 3 contenders for 2021 hop rookie of the year. March 22, 2021. August 26, 2020. New hop varieties from Australia and New Zealand* will be headed to the United States after the harvest down under next March and April, so competition for 2021 hop rookie of the year is going to be interesting. Don’t bet against Talus from the HopBreeding
NEW LAGER FRIENDLY HOPS New lager friendly hops. September 3, 2020. August 19, 2020. When a new hop variety is given a name these days many brewers have a good idea what she will smell and taste like in beers because 10 years or more may pass before a seed turns into a plant that farmers and brewers can trust. Many breweries will have participated in trials to WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE BEER YOU ARE TASTING More adjectives: 107 words to describe hop aroma and flavor. Until robots take over our tasting world we’re left to consider how to communicate the aromas and flavors we experience with beer.. A review of “Perfumes: The Guide” in the current New Yorker magazine makes that point.. The words and the references are really useful only to people who have had the same experiences and use BEFORE OBERON WAS OBERON; A LARRY BELL STORY You might have overlooked this bit of news yesterday from Molson Coors: “Molson Coors and Heineken announced today that MillerCoors later this year will start distributing, marketing and selling the Mexican import Sol in the United States.”. Shrug, be excited, whatever. For me this provdes an excuse to tell a Larry Bell story. And Larry Bell stories are the best kind of beer stories. CATTLE, SPENT GRAIN, AND HOPS Cattle, spent grain, and hops. April 2, 2014. No surprise that the Brewers Association and Beer Institute have come out so firmly against a proposal that would make it harder and more expensive for breweries to sell or give away their spent grains. (The BA’s statement is here.) If the Food and Drug Adminstration does not afford some sort of HOP UNION HOP AROMA WHEEL I’d love to see somebody tackle it. It requires being a little bold – being willing to differentiate between flavors/aromas not obviously different: citrus, fruit, stone fruit, and tropic fruit. Not everybody will agree, but they don’t need to. This is a tool for brewers. Not a pass/fail quiz for drinkers. NO AMARILLO, CASCADE, CENTENNIAL, CHINOOK, CITRA, GALAXY Warrior is a fine choice for a bittering hop and Calypso and Mandarina Bavaria are two examples of all the new “impact hops” Simply Hops left eligible – such as Ekuanot (the new name for Equinox), Lemondrop, Denali, El Dorado, African Queen, or Taiheke. OLYMPIA BREWERY TRADITION SURVIVES Olympia brewery tradition survives. November 1, 2012. June 11, 2007. This is the sort of “blast from the past” we all should appreciate. The Olympian reports that Fish Brewing has revived the tradition of blowing a steam whistle at 5 p.m. to mark the end of a workday, just as the Olympia Brewing Co. did for years in nearbyTumwater.
SAM ADAMS SHARING HOPS WITH SMALLER BREWERS Sam Adams sharing hops with smaller brewers. November 2, 2012. February 15, 2008. Jim Koch sent a big old hops valentine to smaller breweries on Thursday. Ten tons worth. He told them that Boston Beer, brewer of the Samuel Adams beers, will sell 20,000 pounds of hops that otherwise would not be available to smaller breweries.BEERS OF CONVICTION
Saturday the brewery released Pomona Paradise, “Brewed with mangos, blackberries, limes, and raspberries, this beer is a liquid cornucopia of juicy, tart, and delicious fruits. 5% ABV.”. Pontoon brewed the beer in collaboration with @craftwomenconnect and @blackbrewbabes. As part of the Brewing Conversations Project, the women talked about PLACE/LOCAL/INGREDIENTS/SENSORY A couple of weeks ago at Good Beer Hunting, a story about the Tyranny of the Tickers and the pressure Untappd ratings exert on how beer is made and sold included was a reminder of the mini-empire that a company called Next Glass is building.. Head to its website to see it is parent to Untappd, BeerAdvocate, Hop Culture, and Oznr. So “next glass,” that sort of makes sense. WHY DRY HOPPING MAY LOWER ISO-ALPHA ACIDS BUT BOOST Recent research related to hops and brewing is not making life easier for the people who write brewing software. Exhibit A: A peer-reviewed paper in the Master Brewers Association of the Americas Technical Quarterly titled, “Humulinone Formation in Hops and Hop Pellets and its implications for Dry Hopped Beers.” (A condensed version of the results of the S.S. Steiner experiments described ORVAL, NOVA SCOTIA, SPRUCE BEER Stan, when I had a chance, I wanted to talk more about Canadian spruce beer. The beer Charlie Grimes made was probably similar to artisan Quebec spruce beer, because Robertson mentioned that River Bourgeois was a Francophone community. HOP UNION HOP AROMA WHEEL I’d love to see somebody tackle it. It requires being a little bold – being willing to differentiate between flavors/aromas not obviously different: citrus, fruit, stone fruit, and tropic fruit. Not everybody will agree, but they don’t need to. This is a tool for brewers. Not a pass/fail quiz for drinkers. WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN WRONG ABOUT FIRST WORT HOPPING From the introduction: “First-wort hopping (FWH) is a technique where hops are added to the first runnings of wort from the lauter tun before ‘kettle full’ and before wort boiling. This method exposes the hop material to wort at lower temperatures and an elevate pH for an extended period of time. Research related to FWH is limited and SMELL TRAINING, FOR THOSE WHO MISS LITTER BOX IPAS He suggested smell training to speed the recovery. “Throughout the day, I spontaneously embark on smell-a-thons,” Camuto writes. “Last week, I was excited to pick up on the scents of the dried-out Christmas tree, lemon leaves (though not the lemon), WD-40, soap, wild thyme, burned match, buttery pastry and the anachronistic scent of a SATURDAY AFTERNOON WITH A SMOOTHIE-STYLE SOUR Smoothie-style sour is not a category at the Great American Beer Festival, but it is at Pontoon. Saturday the brewery released Pomona Paradise, “Brewed with mangos, blackberries, limes, and raspberries, this beer is a liquid cornucopia of juicy, tart, and delicious fruits.5% ABV.”.
TOO! – APPELLATION BEER Sift flour into stiff egg whites. Add flour in three steps and fold in carefully. Do not break the egg whites. Fold in raspberries, if desired. Spoon mixture into ungreased nonstick tube pan. Bake for 40 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean. Invert pan onto a cake rack and let cool in pan. CASCADE – A STUDY IN HOP TERROIR – APPELLATION BEER Note: Boak & Bailey periodically invite bloggers to post something longer than usual. This is my contribution. ***** Conducting a study during the 2010 hop harvest in the Willamette Valley, researchers at Oregon State University’s Shellhammer LabAPPELLATION BEER
This a take is from a wine guy, but perfectly relevant to beer: “The best notes go back and forth, some sentences, some fragments, and this is right and proper. “We are following the squirmings of an animated mind attempting to grope with the limitations of languages and with kinetic information that moves faster than it can be apprehended. ALREADY 3 CONTENDERS FOR 2021 HOP ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Already 3 contenders for 2021 hop rookie of the year. March 22, 2021. August 26, 2020. New hop varieties from Australia and New Zealand* will be headed to the United States after the harvest down under next March and April, so competition for 2021 hop rookie of the year is going to be interesting. Don’t bet against Talus from the HopBreeding
WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE BEER YOU ARE TASTING More adjectives: 107 words to describe hop aroma and flavor. Until robots take over our tasting world we’re left to consider how to communicate the aromas and flavors we experience with beer.. A review of “Perfumes: The Guide” in the current New Yorker magazine makes that point.. The words and the references are really useful only to people who have had the same experiences and use WHAT WILL THE CHAPTER AFTER THE ‘CRAFT BEER ERA’ BE CALLED What will the chapter after the ‘craft beer era’ be called? Beer Lovers, a pub in Cartagena, Colombia – part of a worldwide phenomenon. “Historians love chapter breaks. COVID-19 will come to be seen as a chapter break.”. “All history is contemporary history.”. Context is everything, so I think there is value inreading these two
CATTLE, SPENT GRAIN, AND HOPS Cattle, spent grain, and hops. April 2, 2014. No surprise that the Brewers Association and Beer Institute have come out so firmly against a proposal that would make it harder and more expensive for breweries to sell or give away their spent grains. (The BA’s statement is here.) If the Food and Drug Adminstration does not afford some sort of WHY DRY HOPPING MAY LOWER ISO-ALPHA ACIDS BUT BOOST Recent research related to hops and brewing is not making life easier for the people who write brewing software. Exhibit A: A peer-reviewed paper in the Master Brewers Association of the Americas Technical Quarterly titled, “Humulinone Formation in Hops and Hop Pellets and its implications for Dry Hopped Beers.” (A condensed version of the results of the S.S. Steiner experiments described BEFORE OBERON WAS OBERON; A LARRY BELL STORY You might have overlooked this bit of news yesterday from Molson Coors: “Molson Coors and Heineken announced today that MillerCoors later this year will start distributing, marketing and selling the Mexican import Sol in the United States.”. Shrug, be excited, whatever. For me this provdes an excuse to tell a Larry Bell story. And Larry Bell stories are the best kind of beer stories. HOP UNION HOP AROMA WHEEL I’d love to see somebody tackle it. It requires being a little bold – being willing to differentiate between flavors/aromas not obviously different: citrus, fruit, stone fruit, and tropic fruit. Not everybody will agree, but they don’t need to. This is a tool for brewers. Not a pass/fail quiz for drinkers. BLUE MOON: PETER, PAUL & MARY OR TRINI Had Coors Blue Moon White been a folk artist in the 1960s would it have been Peter, Paul & Mary? Wait, before you flip the dial, consider these alternative questions: – Was the group P,P OLYMPIA BREWERY TRADITION SURVIVES Olympia brewery tradition survives. November 1, 2012. June 11, 2007. This is the sort of “blast from the past” we all should appreciate. The Olympian reports that Fish Brewing has revived the tradition of blowing a steam whistle at 5 p.m. to mark the end of a workday, just as the Olympia Brewing Co. did for years in nearbyTumwater.
APPELLATION BEER
This a take is from a wine guy, but perfectly relevant to beer: “The best notes go back and forth, some sentences, some fragments, and this is right and proper. “We are following the squirmings of an animated mind attempting to grope with the limitations of languages and with kinetic information that moves faster than it can be apprehended. ALREADY 3 CONTENDERS FOR 2021 HOP ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Already 3 contenders for 2021 hop rookie of the year. March 22, 2021. August 26, 2020. New hop varieties from Australia and New Zealand* will be headed to the United States after the harvest down under next March and April, so competition for 2021 hop rookie of the year is going to be interesting. Don’t bet against Talus from the HopBreeding
WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE BEER YOU ARE TASTING More adjectives: 107 words to describe hop aroma and flavor. Until robots take over our tasting world we’re left to consider how to communicate the aromas and flavors we experience with beer.. A review of “Perfumes: The Guide” in the current New Yorker magazine makes that point.. The words and the references are really useful only to people who have had the same experiences and use WHAT WILL THE CHAPTER AFTER THE ‘CRAFT BEER ERA’ BE CALLED What will the chapter after the ‘craft beer era’ be called? Beer Lovers, a pub in Cartagena, Colombia – part of a worldwide phenomenon. “Historians love chapter breaks. COVID-19 will come to be seen as a chapter break.”. “All history is contemporary history.”. Context is everything, so I think there is value inreading these two
CATTLE, SPENT GRAIN, AND HOPS Cattle, spent grain, and hops. April 2, 2014. No surprise that the Brewers Association and Beer Institute have come out so firmly against a proposal that would make it harder and more expensive for breweries to sell or give away their spent grains. (The BA’s statement is here.) If the Food and Drug Adminstration does not afford some sort of WHY DRY HOPPING MAY LOWER ISO-ALPHA ACIDS BUT BOOST Recent research related to hops and brewing is not making life easier for the people who write brewing software. Exhibit A: A peer-reviewed paper in the Master Brewers Association of the Americas Technical Quarterly titled, “Humulinone Formation in Hops and Hop Pellets and its implications for Dry Hopped Beers.” (A condensed version of the results of the S.S. Steiner experiments described BEFORE OBERON WAS OBERON; A LARRY BELL STORY You might have overlooked this bit of news yesterday from Molson Coors: “Molson Coors and Heineken announced today that MillerCoors later this year will start distributing, marketing and selling the Mexican import Sol in the United States.”. Shrug, be excited, whatever. For me this provdes an excuse to tell a Larry Bell story. And Larry Bell stories are the best kind of beer stories. HOP UNION HOP AROMA WHEEL I’d love to see somebody tackle it. It requires being a little bold – being willing to differentiate between flavors/aromas not obviously different: citrus, fruit, stone fruit, and tropic fruit. Not everybody will agree, but they don’t need to. This is a tool for brewers. Not a pass/fail quiz for drinkers. BLUE MOON: PETER, PAUL & MARY OR TRINI Had Coors Blue Moon White been a folk artist in the 1960s would it have been Peter, Paul & Mary? Wait, before you flip the dial, consider these alternative questions: – Was the group P,P OLYMPIA BREWERY TRADITION SURVIVES Olympia brewery tradition survives. November 1, 2012. June 11, 2007. This is the sort of “blast from the past” we all should appreciate. The Olympian reports that Fish Brewing has revived the tradition of blowing a steam whistle at 5 p.m. to mark the end of a workday, just as the Olympia Brewing Co. did for years in nearbyTumwater.
WHAT WILL THE CHAPTER AFTER THE ‘CRAFT BEER ERA’ BE CALLED What will the chapter after the ‘craft beer era’ be called? Beer Lovers, a pub in Cartagena, Colombia – part of a worldwide phenomenon. “Historians love chapter breaks. COVID-19 will come to be seen as a chapter break.”. “All history is contemporary history.”. Context is everything, so I think there is value inreading these two
NEW LAGER FRIENDLY HOPS New lager friendly hops. September 3, 2020. August 19, 2020. When a new hop variety is given a name these days many brewers have a good idea what she will smell and taste like in beers because 10 years or more may pass before a seed turns into a plant that farmers and brewers can trust. Many breweries will have participated in trials to HOP UNION HOP AROMA WHEEL I’d love to see somebody tackle it. It requires being a little bold – being willing to differentiate between flavors/aromas not obviously different: citrus, fruit, stone fruit, and tropic fruit. Not everybody will agree, but they don’t need to. This is a tool for brewers. Not a pass/fail quiz for drinkers. SMELL TRAINING, FOR THOSE WHO MISS LITTER BOX IPAS He suggested smell training to speed the recovery. “Throughout the day, I spontaneously embark on smell-a-thons,” Camuto writes. “Last week, I was excited to pick up on the scents of the dried-out Christmas tree, lemon leaves (though not the lemon), WD-40, soap, wild thyme, burned match, buttery pastry and the anachronistic scent of a SATURDAY AFTERNOON WITH A SMOOTHIE-STYLE SOUR Smoothie-style sour is not a category at the Great American Beer Festival, but it is at Pontoon. Saturday the brewery released Pomona Paradise, “Brewed with mangos, blackberries, limes, and raspberries, this beer is a liquid cornucopia of juicy, tart, and delicious fruits.5% ABV.”.
HAS HARD SELTZER GIVEN BEER THE ‘CROSS ROAD BLUES Standin’ at the crossroad, baby, risin’ sun goin’ down. Standin’ at the crossroad, baby, eee-eee, risin’ sun goin’ down. I believe to my soul, now, poor Bob is sinkin’ down. – From “Cross Road Blues” by Robert Johnson. Lew Bryson, bless his booming laugh, has written about the soul of beer. In the first yearsI posted at
A TRUTH ABOUT BUD THAT ‘PANDORA FOR BEER’ ONCE REVEALED A truth about Bud that ‘Pandora for beer’ once revealed. A couple of weeks ago at Good Beer Hunting, a story about the Tyranny of the Tickers and the pressure Untappd ratings exert on how beer is made and sold included was a reminder of the mini-empire that a company called Next Glass is building. Head to its website to see it is parent to NO AMARILLO, CASCADE, CENTENNIAL, CHINOOK, CITRA, GALAXY Warrior is a fine choice for a bittering hop and Calypso and Mandarina Bavaria are two examples of all the new “impact hops” Simply Hops left eligible – such as Ekuanot (the new name for Equinox), Lemondrop, Denali, El Dorado, African Queen, or Taiheke. OLYMPIA BREWERY TRADITION SURVIVES Olympia brewery tradition survives. November 1, 2012. June 11, 2007. This is the sort of “blast from the past” we all should appreciate. The Olympian reports that Fish Brewing has revived the tradition of blowing a steam whistle at 5 p.m. to mark the end of a workday, just as the Olympia Brewing Co. did for years in nearbyTumwater.
SAM ADAMS SHARING HOPS WITH SMALLER BREWERS Sam Adams sharing hops with smaller brewers. November 2, 2012. February 15, 2008. Jim Koch sent a big old hops valentine to smaller breweries on Thursday. Ten tons worth. He told them that Boston Beer, brewer of the Samuel Adams beers, will sell 20,000 pounds of hops that otherwise would not be available to smaller breweries.APPELLATION BEER
This a take is from a wine guy, but perfectly relevant to beer: “The best notes go back and forth, some sentences, some fragments, and this is right and proper. “We are following the squirmings of an animated mind attempting to grope with the limitations of languages and with kinetic information that moves faster than it can be apprehended. ALREADY 3 CONTENDERS FOR 2021 HOP ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Already 3 contenders for 2021 hop rookie of the year. March 22, 2021. August 26, 2020. New hop varieties from Australia and New Zealand* will be headed to the United States after the harvest down under next March and April, so competition for 2021 hop rookie of the year is going to be interesting. Don’t bet against Talus from the HopBreeding
NEW LAGER FRIENDLY HOPS New lager friendly hops. September 3, 2020. August 19, 2020. When a new hop variety is given a name these days many brewers have a good idea what she will smell and taste like in beers because 10 years or more may pass before a seed turns into a plant that farmers and brewers can trust. Many breweries will have participated in trials to WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE BEER YOU ARE TASTING More adjectives: 107 words to describe hop aroma and flavor. Until robots take over our tasting world we’re left to consider how to communicate the aromas and flavors we experience with beer.. A review of “Perfumes: The Guide” in the current New Yorker magazine makes that point.. The words and the references are really useful only to people who have had the same experiences and use BEFORE OBERON WAS OBERON; A LARRY BELL STORY You might have overlooked this bit of news yesterday from Molson Coors: “Molson Coors and Heineken announced today that MillerCoors later this year will start distributing, marketing and selling the Mexican import Sol in the United States.”. Shrug, be excited, whatever. For me this provdes an excuse to tell a Larry Bell story. And Larry Bell stories are the best kind of beer stories. MONDAY BEER LINKS: ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN’T HOPS First, we’re not talking hopsless beer. The full report (second link) has the details. Second, the researchers have focused on two key compounds (linalool and geraniol), but hops contain more 500 compounds and scientists have not identified what (if anything) they all add to aroma and flavor. It is one thing to create a “hoppy” flavor. CATTLE, SPENT GRAIN, AND HOPS Cattle, spent grain, and hops. April 2, 2014. No surprise that the Brewers Association and Beer Institute have come out so firmly against a proposal that would make it harder and more expensive for breweries to sell or give away their spent grains. (The BA’s statement is here.) If the Food and Drug Adminstration does not afford some sort of HOP UNION HOP AROMA WHEEL I’d love to see somebody tackle it. It requires being a little bold – being willing to differentiate between flavors/aromas not obviously different: citrus, fruit, stone fruit, and tropic fruit. Not everybody will agree, but they don’t need to. This is a tool for brewers. Not a pass/fail quiz for drinkers. OLYMPIA BREWERY TRADITION SURVIVES Olympia brewery tradition survives. November 1, 2012. June 11, 2007. This is the sort of “blast from the past” we all should appreciate. The Olympian reports that Fish Brewing has revived the tradition of blowing a steam whistle at 5 p.m. to mark the end of a workday, just as the Olympia Brewing Co. did for years in nearbyTumwater.
SAM ADAMS SHARING HOPS WITH SMALLER BREWERS Sam Adams sharing hops with smaller brewers. November 2, 2012. February 15, 2008. Jim Koch sent a big old hops valentine to smaller breweries on Thursday. Ten tons worth. He told them that Boston Beer, brewer of the Samuel Adams beers, will sell 20,000 pounds of hops that otherwise would not be available to smaller breweries.APPELLATION BEER
This a take is from a wine guy, but perfectly relevant to beer: “The best notes go back and forth, some sentences, some fragments, and this is right and proper. “We are following the squirmings of an animated mind attempting to grope with the limitations of languages and with kinetic information that moves faster than it can be apprehended. ALREADY 3 CONTENDERS FOR 2021 HOP ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Already 3 contenders for 2021 hop rookie of the year. March 22, 2021. August 26, 2020. New hop varieties from Australia and New Zealand* will be headed to the United States after the harvest down under next March and April, so competition for 2021 hop rookie of the year is going to be interesting. Don’t bet against Talus from the HopBreeding
NEW LAGER FRIENDLY HOPS New lager friendly hops. September 3, 2020. August 19, 2020. When a new hop variety is given a name these days many brewers have a good idea what she will smell and taste like in beers because 10 years or more may pass before a seed turns into a plant that farmers and brewers can trust. Many breweries will have participated in trials to WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE BEER YOU ARE TASTING More adjectives: 107 words to describe hop aroma and flavor. Until robots take over our tasting world we’re left to consider how to communicate the aromas and flavors we experience with beer.. A review of “Perfumes: The Guide” in the current New Yorker magazine makes that point.. The words and the references are really useful only to people who have had the same experiences and use MONDAY BEER LINKS: ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN’T HOPS First, we’re not talking hopsless beer. The full report (second link) has the details. Second, the researchers have focused on two key compounds (linalool and geraniol), but hops contain more 500 compounds and scientists have not identified what (if anything) they all add to aroma and flavor. It is one thing to create a “hoppy” flavor. BEFORE OBERON WAS OBERON; A LARRY BELL STORY You might have overlooked this bit of news yesterday from Molson Coors: “Molson Coors and Heineken announced today that MillerCoors later this year will start distributing, marketing and selling the Mexican import Sol in the United States.”. Shrug, be excited, whatever. For me this provdes an excuse to tell a Larry Bell story. And Larry Bell stories are the best kind of beer stories. CATTLE, SPENT GRAIN, AND HOPS Cattle, spent grain, and hops. April 2, 2014. No surprise that the Brewers Association and Beer Institute have come out so firmly against a proposal that would make it harder and more expensive for breweries to sell or give away their spent grains. (The BA’s statement is here.) If the Food and Drug Adminstration does not afford some sort of HOP UNION HOP AROMA WHEEL I’d love to see somebody tackle it. It requires being a little bold – being willing to differentiate between flavors/aromas not obviously different: citrus, fruit, stone fruit, and tropic fruit. Not everybody will agree, but they don’t need to. This is a tool for brewers. Not a pass/fail quiz for drinkers. OLYMPIA BREWERY TRADITION SURVIVES Olympia brewery tradition survives. November 1, 2012. June 11, 2007. This is the sort of “blast from the past” we all should appreciate. The Olympian reports that Fish Brewing has revived the tradition of blowing a steam whistle at 5 p.m. to mark the end of a workday, just as the Olympia Brewing Co. did for years in nearbyTumwater.
SAM ADAMS SHARING HOPS WITH SMALLER BREWERS Sam Adams sharing hops with smaller brewers. November 2, 2012. February 15, 2008. Jim Koch sent a big old hops valentine to smaller breweries on Thursday. Ten tons worth. He told them that Boston Beer, brewer of the Samuel Adams beers, will sell 20,000 pounds of hops that otherwise would not be available to smaller breweries. TRADITION AND THE FLAVOR TRIANGLE Greetings, and welcome to Appellation Beer. Look here for why this blog has been around for 15 years and why it is called what it is. Otherwise, a guide to what to expect on a semi-regular basis: Some Mondays, a link to a post you might want to read, andHOP QUERIES
Hop Queries. Sign up here for a monthly newsletter with information about hops that recently caught my eye (and I look a lot of places). Expect a bit of agriculture, a dash of science, an occasional new variety, and always some hop geekery. As often as not you will be reading the questions I am asking hop scientists, hop farmers, hopbreeders
BECAUSE WE DON’T ALL LIKE THE SAME FLAVORS Because we don’t all like the same flavors. Here’s another new hop to look for: Relax. It’s unusual because it contains 0.25% alpha acids, as in almost none. For sake of comparison, Czech Saaz hops have 3-6%, Cascade 4.5-7%, and German Herkules 12-17%. It was bred in Germany and those who have rubbed and sniffed the cones describearomas
HOP UNION HOP AROMA WHEEL I’d love to see somebody tackle it. It requires being a little bold – being willing to differentiate between flavors/aromas not obviously different: citrus, fruit, stone fruit, and tropic fruit. Not everybody will agree, but they don’t need to. This is a tool for brewers. Not a pass/fail quiz for drinkers. MONDAY BEER LINKS: ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN’T HOPS First, we’re not talking hopsless beer. The full report (second link) has the details. Second, the researchers have focused on two key compounds (linalool and geraniol), but hops contain more 500 compounds and scientists have not identified what (if anything) they all add to aroma and flavor. It is one thing to create a “hoppy” flavor. WHY DRY HOPPING MAY LOWER ISO-ALPHA ACIDS BUT BOOST Recent research related to hops and brewing is not making life easier for the people who write brewing software. Exhibit A: A peer-reviewed paper in the Master Brewers Association of the Americas Technical Quarterly titled, “Humulinone Formation in Hops and Hop Pellets and its implications for Dry Hopped Beers.” (A condensed version of the results of the S.S. Steiner experiments described TOO! – APPELLATION BEER Sift flour into stiff egg whites. Add flour in three steps and fold in carefully. Do not break the egg whites. Fold in raspberries, if desired. Spoon mixture into ungreased nonstick tube pan. Bake for 40 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean. Invert pan onto a cake rack and let cool in pan. WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN WRONG ABOUT FIRST WORT HOPPING From the introduction: “First-wort hopping (FWH) is a technique where hops are added to the first runnings of wort from the lauter tun before ‘kettle full’ and before wort boiling. This method exposes the hop material to wort at lower temperatures and an elevate pH for an extended period of time. Research related to FWH is limited and SMELL TRAINING, FOR THOSE WHO MISS LITTER BOX IPAS He suggested smell training to speed the recovery. “Throughout the day, I spontaneously embark on smell-a-thons,” Camuto writes. “Last week, I was excited to pick up on the scents of the dried-out Christmas tree, lemon leaves (though not the lemon), WD-40, soap, wild thyme, burned match, buttery pastry and the anachronistic scent of a BLUE MOON: PETER, PAUL & MARY OR TRINI Had Coors Blue Moon White been a folk artist in the 1960s would it have been Peter, Paul & Mary? Wait, before you flip the dial, consider these alternative questions: – Was the group P,PAPPELLATION BEER
This a take is from a wine guy, but perfectly relevant to beer: “The best notes go back and forth, some sentences, some fragments, and this is right and proper. “We are following the squirmings of an animated mind attempting to grope with the limitations of languages and with kinetic information that moves faster than it can be apprehended. ALREADY 3 CONTENDERS FOR 2021 HOP ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Already 3 contenders for 2021 hop rookie of the year. March 22, 2021. August 26, 2020. New hop varieties from Australia and New Zealand* will be headed to the United States after the harvest down under next March and April, so competition for 2021 hop rookie of the year is going to be interesting. Don’t bet against Talus from the HopBreeding
NEW LAGER FRIENDLY HOPS New lager friendly hops. September 3, 2020. August 19, 2020. When a new hop variety is given a name these days many brewers have a good idea what she will smell and taste like in beers because 10 years or more may pass before a seed turns into a plant that farmers and brewers can trust. Many breweries will have participated in trials to WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE BEER YOU ARE TASTING More adjectives: 107 words to describe hop aroma and flavor. Until robots take over our tasting world we’re left to consider how to communicate the aromas and flavors we experience with beer.. A review of “Perfumes: The Guide” in the current New Yorker magazine makes that point.. The words and the references are really useful only to people who have had the same experiences and use BEFORE OBERON WAS OBERON; A LARRY BELL STORY You might have overlooked this bit of news yesterday from Molson Coors: “Molson Coors and Heineken announced today that MillerCoors later this year will start distributing, marketing and selling the Mexican import Sol in the United States.”. Shrug, be excited, whatever. For me this provdes an excuse to tell a Larry Bell story. And Larry Bell stories are the best kind of beer stories. CATTLE, SPENT GRAIN, AND HOPS Cattle, spent grain, and hops. April 2, 2014. No surprise that the Brewers Association and Beer Institute have come out so firmly against a proposal that would make it harder and more expensive for breweries to sell or give away their spent grains. (The BA’s statement is here.) If the Food and Drug Adminstration does not afford some sort of MONDAY BEER LINKS: ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN’T HOPS First, we’re not talking hopsless beer. The full report (second link) has the details. Second, the researchers have focused on two key compounds (linalool and geraniol), but hops contain more 500 compounds and scientists have not identified what (if anything) they all add to aroma and flavor. It is one thing to create a “hoppy” flavor. HOP UNION HOP AROMA WHEEL I’d love to see somebody tackle it. It requires being a little bold – being willing to differentiate between flavors/aromas not obviously different: citrus, fruit, stone fruit, and tropic fruit. Not everybody will agree, but they don’t need to. This is a tool for brewers. Not a pass/fail quiz for drinkers. OLYMPIA BREWERY TRADITION SURVIVES Olympia brewery tradition survives. November 1, 2012. June 11, 2007. This is the sort of “blast from the past” we all should appreciate. The Olympian reports that Fish Brewing has revived the tradition of blowing a steam whistle at 5 p.m. to mark the end of a workday, just as the Olympia Brewing Co. did for years in nearbyTumwater.
SAM ADAMS SHARING HOPS WITH SMALLER BREWERS Sam Adams sharing hops with smaller brewers. November 2, 2012. February 15, 2008. Jim Koch sent a big old hops valentine to smaller breweries on Thursday. Ten tons worth. He told them that Boston Beer, brewer of the Samuel Adams beers, will sell 20,000 pounds of hops that otherwise would not be available to smaller breweries.APPELLATION BEER
This a take is from a wine guy, but perfectly relevant to beer: “The best notes go back and forth, some sentences, some fragments, and this is right and proper. “We are following the squirmings of an animated mind attempting to grope with the limitations of languages and with kinetic information that moves faster than it can be apprehended. ALREADY 3 CONTENDERS FOR 2021 HOP ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Already 3 contenders for 2021 hop rookie of the year. March 22, 2021. August 26, 2020. New hop varieties from Australia and New Zealand* will be headed to the United States after the harvest down under next March and April, so competition for 2021 hop rookie of the year is going to be interesting. Don’t bet against Talus from the HopBreeding
NEW LAGER FRIENDLY HOPS New lager friendly hops. September 3, 2020. August 19, 2020. When a new hop variety is given a name these days many brewers have a good idea what she will smell and taste like in beers because 10 years or more may pass before a seed turns into a plant that farmers and brewers can trust. Many breweries will have participated in trials to WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE BEER YOU ARE TASTING More adjectives: 107 words to describe hop aroma and flavor. Until robots take over our tasting world we’re left to consider how to communicate the aromas and flavors we experience with beer.. A review of “Perfumes: The Guide” in the current New Yorker magazine makes that point.. The words and the references are really useful only to people who have had the same experiences and use BEFORE OBERON WAS OBERON; A LARRY BELL STORY You might have overlooked this bit of news yesterday from Molson Coors: “Molson Coors and Heineken announced today that MillerCoors later this year will start distributing, marketing and selling the Mexican import Sol in the United States.”. Shrug, be excited, whatever. For me this provdes an excuse to tell a Larry Bell story. And Larry Bell stories are the best kind of beer stories. CATTLE, SPENT GRAIN, AND HOPS Cattle, spent grain, and hops. April 2, 2014. No surprise that the Brewers Association and Beer Institute have come out so firmly against a proposal that would make it harder and more expensive for breweries to sell or give away their spent grains. (The BA’s statement is here.) If the Food and Drug Adminstration does not afford some sort of MONDAY BEER LINKS: ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN’T HOPS First, we’re not talking hopsless beer. The full report (second link) has the details. Second, the researchers have focused on two key compounds (linalool and geraniol), but hops contain more 500 compounds and scientists have not identified what (if anything) they all add to aroma and flavor. It is one thing to create a “hoppy” flavor. HOP UNION HOP AROMA WHEEL I’d love to see somebody tackle it. It requires being a little bold – being willing to differentiate between flavors/aromas not obviously different: citrus, fruit, stone fruit, and tropic fruit. Not everybody will agree, but they don’t need to. This is a tool for brewers. Not a pass/fail quiz for drinkers. OLYMPIA BREWERY TRADITION SURVIVES Olympia brewery tradition survives. November 1, 2012. June 11, 2007. This is the sort of “blast from the past” we all should appreciate. The Olympian reports that Fish Brewing has revived the tradition of blowing a steam whistle at 5 p.m. to mark the end of a workday, just as the Olympia Brewing Co. did for years in nearbyTumwater.
SAM ADAMS SHARING HOPS WITH SMALLER BREWERS Sam Adams sharing hops with smaller brewers. November 2, 2012. February 15, 2008. Jim Koch sent a big old hops valentine to smaller breweries on Thursday. Ten tons worth. He told them that Boston Beer, brewer of the Samuel Adams beers, will sell 20,000 pounds of hops that otherwise would not be available to smaller breweries. TRADITION AND THE FLAVOR TRIANGLE Greetings, and welcome to Appellation Beer. Look here for why this blog has been around for 15 years and why it is called what it is. Otherwise, a guide to what to expect on a semi-regular basis: Some Mondays, a link to a post you might want to read, andHOP QUERIES
Hop Queries. Sign up here for a monthly newsletter with information about hops that recently caught my eye (and I look a lot of places). Expect a bit of agriculture, a dash of science, an occasional new variety, and always some hop geekery. As often as not you will be reading the questions I am asking hop scientists, hop farmers, hopbreeders
BECAUSE WE DON’T ALL LIKE THE SAME FLAVORS Because we don’t all like the same flavors. Here’s another new hop to look for: Relax. It’s unusual because it contains 0.25% alpha acids, as in almost none. For sake of comparison, Czech Saaz hops have 3-6%, Cascade 4.5-7%, and German Herkules 12-17%. It was bred in Germany and those who have rubbed and sniffed the cones describearomas
HOP UNION HOP AROMA WHEEL I’d love to see somebody tackle it. It requires being a little bold – being willing to differentiate between flavors/aromas not obviously different: citrus, fruit, stone fruit, and tropic fruit. Not everybody will agree, but they don’t need to. This is a tool for brewers. Not a pass/fail quiz for drinkers. MONDAY BEER LINKS: ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN’T HOPS First, we’re not talking hopsless beer. The full report (second link) has the details. Second, the researchers have focused on two key compounds (linalool and geraniol), but hops contain more 500 compounds and scientists have not identified what (if anything) they all add to aroma and flavor. It is one thing to create a “hoppy” flavor. WHY DRY HOPPING MAY LOWER ISO-ALPHA ACIDS BUT BOOST Recent research related to hops and brewing is not making life easier for the people who write brewing software. Exhibit A: A peer-reviewed paper in the Master Brewers Association of the Americas Technical Quarterly titled, “Humulinone Formation in Hops and Hop Pellets and its implications for Dry Hopped Beers.” (A condensed version of the results of the S.S. Steiner experiments described TOO! – APPELLATION BEER Sift flour into stiff egg whites. Add flour in three steps and fold in carefully. Do not break the egg whites. Fold in raspberries, if desired. Spoon mixture into ungreased nonstick tube pan. Bake for 40 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean. Invert pan onto a cake rack and let cool in pan. WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN WRONG ABOUT FIRST WORT HOPPING From the introduction: “First-wort hopping (FWH) is a technique where hops are added to the first runnings of wort from the lauter tun before ‘kettle full’ and before wort boiling. This method exposes the hop material to wort at lower temperatures and an elevate pH for an extended period of time. Research related to FWH is limited and SMELL TRAINING, FOR THOSE WHO MISS LITTER BOX IPAS He suggested smell training to speed the recovery. “Throughout the day, I spontaneously embark on smell-a-thons,” Camuto writes. “Last week, I was excited to pick up on the scents of the dried-out Christmas tree, lemon leaves (though not the lemon), WD-40, soap, wild thyme, burned match, buttery pastry and the anachronistic scent of a BLUE MOON: PETER, PAUL & MARY OR TRINI Had Coors Blue Moon White been a folk artist in the 1960s would it have been Peter, Paul & Mary? Wait, before you flip the dial, consider these alternative questions: – Was the group P,PAPPELLATION BEER
This a take is from a wine guy, but perfectly relevant to beer: “The best notes go back and forth, some sentences, some fragments, and this is right and proper. “We are following the squirmings of an animated mind attempting to grope with the limitations of languages and with kinetic information that moves faster than it can be apprehended. ALREADY 3 CONTENDERS FOR 2021 HOP ROOKIE OF THE YEAR2021 ROOKIE DRAFT2021 ROOKIE RUNNING BACKSMADDEN 2021 ROOKIE RATINGSIS THE ROOKIE RETURNING 2021NBA ROOKIES 2021 Already 3 contenders for 2021 hop rookie of the year. March 22, 2021. August 26, 2020. New hop varieties from Australia and New Zealand* will be headed to the United States after the harvest down under next March and April, so competition for 2021 hop rookie of the year is going to be interesting. Don’t bet against Talus from the HopBreeding
TRADITION AND THE FLAVOR TRIANGLE Greetings, and welcome to Appellation Beer. Look here for why this blog has been around for 15 years and why it is called what it is. Otherwise, a guide to what to expect on a semi-regular basis: Some Mondays, a link to a post you might want to read, and NEW LAGER FRIENDLY HOPS New lager friendly hops. September 3, 2020. August 19, 2020. When a new hop variety is given a name these days many brewers have a good idea what she will smell and taste like in beers because 10 years or more may pass before a seed turns into a plant that farmers and brewers can trust. Many breweries will have participated in trials toHOP QUERIES
Hop Queries. Sign up here for a monthly newsletter with information about hops that recently caught my eye (and I look a lot of places). Expect a bit of agriculture, a dash of science, an occasional new variety, and always some hop geekery. As often as not you will be reading the questions I am asking hop scientists, hop farmers, hopbreeders
WHY DRY HOPPING MAY LOWER ISO-ALPHA ACIDS BUT BOOST Recent research related to hops and brewing is not making life easier for the people who write brewing software. Exhibit A: A peer-reviewed paper in the Master Brewers Association of the Americas Technical Quarterly titled, “Humulinone Formation in Hops and Hop Pellets and its implications for Dry Hopped Beers.” (A condensed version of the results of the S.S. Steiner experiments described BEFORE OBERON WAS OBERON; A LARRY BELL STORY You might have overlooked this bit of news yesterday from Molson Coors: “Molson Coors and Heineken announced today that MillerCoors later this year will start distributing, marketing and selling the Mexican import Sol in the United States.”. Shrug, be excited, whatever. For me this provdes an excuse to tell a Larry Bell story. And Larry Bell stories are the best kind of beer stories. CATTLE, SPENT GRAIN, AND HOPS Cattle, spent grain, and hops. April 2, 2014. No surprise that the Brewers Association and Beer Institute have come out so firmly against a proposal that would make it harder and more expensive for breweries to sell or give away their spent grains. (The BA’s statement is here.) If the Food and Drug Adminstration does not afford some sort of BLUE MOON: PETER, PAUL & MARY OR TRINI Had Coors Blue Moon White been a folk artist in the 1960s would it have been Peter, Paul & Mary? Wait, before you flip the dial, consider these alternative questions: – Was the group P,P OLYMPIA BREWERY TRADITION SURVIVES Olympia brewery tradition survives. November 1, 2012. June 11, 2007. This is the sort of “blast from the past” we all should appreciate. The Olympian reports that Fish Brewing has revived the tradition of blowing a steam whistle at 5 p.m. to mark the end of a workday, just as the Olympia Brewing Co. did for years in nearbyTumwater.
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This a take is from a wine guy, but perfectly relevant to beer: “The best notes go back and forth, some sentences, some fragments, and this is right and proper. “We are following the squirmings of an animated mind attempting to grope with the limitations of languages and with kinetic information that moves faster than it can be apprehended. ALREADY 3 CONTENDERS FOR 2021 HOP ROOKIE OF THE YEAR2021 ROOKIE DRAFT2021 ROOKIE RUNNING BACKSMADDEN 2021 ROOKIE RATINGSIS THE ROOKIE RETURNING 2021NBA ROOKIES 2021 Already 3 contenders for 2021 hop rookie of the year. March 22, 2021. August 26, 2020. New hop varieties from Australia and New Zealand* will be headed to the United States after the harvest down under next March and April, so competition for 2021 hop rookie of the year is going to be interesting. Don’t bet against Talus from the HopBreeding
TRADITION AND THE FLAVOR TRIANGLE Greetings, and welcome to Appellation Beer. Look here for why this blog has been around for 15 years and why it is called what it is. Otherwise, a guide to what to expect on a semi-regular basis: Some Mondays, a link to a post you might want to read, and NEW LAGER FRIENDLY HOPS New lager friendly hops. September 3, 2020. August 19, 2020. When a new hop variety is given a name these days many brewers have a good idea what she will smell and taste like in beers because 10 years or more may pass before a seed turns into a plant that farmers and brewers can trust. Many breweries will have participated in trials toHOP QUERIES
Hop Queries. Sign up here for a monthly newsletter with information about hops that recently caught my eye (and I look a lot of places). Expect a bit of agriculture, a dash of science, an occasional new variety, and always some hop geekery. As often as not you will be reading the questions I am asking hop scientists, hop farmers, hopbreeders
WHY DRY HOPPING MAY LOWER ISO-ALPHA ACIDS BUT BOOST Recent research related to hops and brewing is not making life easier for the people who write brewing software. Exhibit A: A peer-reviewed paper in the Master Brewers Association of the Americas Technical Quarterly titled, “Humulinone Formation in Hops and Hop Pellets and its implications for Dry Hopped Beers.” (A condensed version of the results of the S.S. Steiner experiments described BEFORE OBERON WAS OBERON; A LARRY BELL STORY You might have overlooked this bit of news yesterday from Molson Coors: “Molson Coors and Heineken announced today that MillerCoors later this year will start distributing, marketing and selling the Mexican import Sol in the United States.”. Shrug, be excited, whatever. For me this provdes an excuse to tell a Larry Bell story. And Larry Bell stories are the best kind of beer stories. CATTLE, SPENT GRAIN, AND HOPS Cattle, spent grain, and hops. April 2, 2014. No surprise that the Brewers Association and Beer Institute have come out so firmly against a proposal that would make it harder and more expensive for breweries to sell or give away their spent grains. (The BA’s statement is here.) If the Food and Drug Adminstration does not afford some sort of BLUE MOON: PETER, PAUL & MARY OR TRINI Had Coors Blue Moon White been a folk artist in the 1960s would it have been Peter, Paul & Mary? Wait, before you flip the dial, consider these alternative questions: – Was the group P,P OLYMPIA BREWERY TRADITION SURVIVES Olympia brewery tradition survives. November 1, 2012. June 11, 2007. This is the sort of “blast from the past” we all should appreciate. The Olympian reports that Fish Brewing has revived the tradition of blowing a steam whistle at 5 p.m. to mark the end of a workday, just as the Olympia Brewing Co. did for years in nearbyTumwater.
ABOUT APPELLATION BEER Greetings, and welcome to Appellation Beer. Look here for why this blog has been around for 15 years and why it is called what it is. Otherwise, a guide to what to expect on a semi-regular basis: Some Mondays, a link to a post you might want to read, and because it leaves me asking a question or two. TRADITION AND THE FLAVOR TRIANGLE Greetings, and welcome to Appellation Beer. Look here for why this blog has been around for 15 years and why it is called what it is. Otherwise, a guide to what to expect on a semi-regular basis: Some Mondays, a link to a post you might want to read, and MAKE WORT, CIP, REPEAT. #BREWERYLIFE Make wort, CIP, repeat. #brewerylife. August 10, 2020. Last week, Evan Rail tweeted a link to a New York Times story about “The Twilight of the Imperial Chef.”. Rail wrote: Great piece arguing against elevating celebrity chefs, recognizing that many people make restaurants great. We’ve been saying the same thing about craft beerfor years.
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Hop Queries. Sign up here for a monthly newsletter with information about hops that recently caught my eye (and I look a lot of places). Expect a bit of agriculture, a dash of science, an occasional new variety, and always some hop geekery. As often as not you will be reading the questions I am asking hop scientists, hop farmers, hopbreeders
TOO! – APPELLATION BEER Sift flour into stiff egg whites. Add flour in three steps and fold in carefully. Do not break the egg whites. Fold in raspberries, if desired. Spoon mixture into ungreased nonstick tube pan. Bake for 40 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean. Invert pan onto a cake rack and let cool in pan. UNDEFINABLE, HOPELESSLY MISUNDERSTOOD AND ABSOLUTELY About halfway into “Craft: An Argument,” author Pete Brown cites two uncomfortable truths about craft as represented by the Arts & Crafts movement. The first is that craft is inherently selfish. The second is that it is elitist. “This is why the Arts & Crafts movement ultimately collapsed over its various irreconcilable ambitions: by placing the dignity and job-satisfaction of the worker HOP UNION HOP AROMA WHEEL For now, expect: Some Mondays, a link to a post you might want to read and because it leaves me asking a question or two. Questions included. Most Wednesdays, a post focused on ingredients, perception and/or the importance of place. Some Fridays, thoughts heading into the weekend, might be a suggestion about something to drink, to read or A TRUTH ABOUT BUD THAT ‘PANDORA FOR BEER’ ONCE REVEALED A truth about Bud that ‘Pandora for beer’ once revealed. A couple of weeks ago at Good Beer Hunting, a story about the Tyranny of the Tickers and the pressure Untappd ratings exert on how beer is made and sold included was a reminder of the mini-empire that a company called Next Glass is building. Head to its website to see it is parent to CORN VS. RICE IN BEER: BEEN THERE, DONE THAT Corn vs. rice in beer: Been there, done that. This particular advertisement appeared in Puck magazine Feb. 22, 1893 as part of a national campaign mounted by Anheuser-Busch. It does not mention that A-B used rice rather than corn, so it would seem that the rather constant referral to the use of rice in Super Bowl commercials thatjust aired is
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SIGNIFICANT BEER DIGITS V (AND SOME MONDAY LINKS)By Stan Hieronymus
on March
16, 2020 in musing
The longest-ever bull market ended last week. When it began — March 9, 2009 — there were _about_ 1,550 breweries in the country. (_About_ because the Brewers Association count at the end of 2008 has been revised a few times, and the official total is now 1,523 at the end of 2008 and 1,600 at the end of 2009). Since then _about_ 7,500 have opened, and about 1,300 have closed. (_About_ because the BA has not released final 2019 totals.) That’s 7,500, _or so_, breweries that have only sold their beer while the economy was expanding . . . and, of course, before socialdistancing.
Almost 3,000 of the country’s 8,000-plus breweries are brewery-restaurants. A good portion of the others are breweries with taprooms, in some cases earning most of their income from what they sell across the bar. Social distancing was not in their business plan.FURTHER READING:
– What COVID-19 Means for the Beer Industry’s Frontline Staff – Beer industry watches and waits as coronavirus epidemic unfolds – Coronavirus Impact on Beer Industry: Taproom Closures, EventCancellations
– ProBrewer Wants To Help In This Crisis — Let’s Talk – Brewers Association’s Bob Pease Discusses The Road Ahead forSmall Brewers
– The Coronavirus Cost to Business and Workers: ‘It Has All Goneto Hell’
– The Dos and Don’ts of Social Distancing – “A single person’s behavior can cause ripple effects that touch faraway people” – Game Theory of Social Distancing in Response to an EpidemicAND FROM TWITTER
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HOW MUCH DO ‘WE’ NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEER HISTORY?By Stan Hieronymus
on March 2,
2020 in beers of conviction Last week, Jeff Alworth struck a chord when he posted a list of “five breweries every serious beer fan should visit.” Lots of interest on Twitter and Facebook. No surprise, I agree that, “Even if you’re just into the standard American craft lineup, your appreciation for those beers will deepen if you visit the breweries that inspired them.” This got a little more complicated for me: “An insularity is settling in among American craft beer fans, and it is cutting them off from the roots of their own tradition.” I agree that appreciating tradition enriches us. But I don’t know that today’s drinkers are any more insular than drinkers have always been. That’s just an aside. Because the post turned out to be a prelude to a family of questions. By chance, the next day on the Music Exists podcast Chris Ryan and Chuck Klosterman discussed, “How much do you really need to know about music history?” Not really all that timely because they were talking about the December dustup that began when Jimmy Kimmell asked Billie Eilish to name any member Van Halen. Continue Reading →SHARE THIS:
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FIRST COMES THE E-NOSE, THEN THE BEER ALGORITHMBy Stan Hieronymus
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24, 2020 in place/local/ingredients Researchers in Australia have developed an “electronic nose” they say will help craft breweries monitor beer quality. Seems like it would work for other breweries as well. This e-nose is a small circuit board that measures gases emitted from beer. It uses machine learning (magic words which we’ll get back to soon) to determine if a beer has unwanted aromas. The gases include carbon dioxide, ethanol, methane, hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide, ammonia and benzene. The electronic nose has also been used by the researchers in conjunction with biometric indicators such as heart rate, body temperature, brainwaves and facial expressions to gather more information from consumers while tasting a product. Basically, it is good at warning brewers there’s something about a beer that consumers won’t like. That’s a positive. However, directing consumers to a beer they will like or providing an idea of what it will smell and taste like is a different challenge. Aroma, and therefore flavor, remains something of a black box. Kevin Verstrepen and Miguel Roncoroni at the laboratory at the University of Leuven’s Institute for Beer Research and VIB Center for Microbiology head up a project intended to match compounds that can be measured with sensory preferences. One result is a book, _Belgian Beer: Tested and Tasted_.
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HAS HARD SELTZER GIVEN BEER THE ‘CROSS ROAD BLUES?’By Stan Hieronymus
on February
17, 2020 in beers of conviction _Standin’ at the crossroad, baby, risin’ sun goin’ down Standin’ at the crossroad, baby, eee-eee, risin’ sun goin’ down I believe to my soul, now, poor Bob is sinkin’ down_ – From “Cross Road Blues” by Robert Johnson Lew Bryson, bless his booming laugh, has written about the soul ofbeer
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In the first years I posted at Appellation Beer the tagline here read, “In search of the soul of beer.” I had to lean on the WaybackMachine
to find a copy of the old logo. I changed the tag to “celebrating beer from a place” because I thought it would result in fewer questions like “why appellation?” Also, a lengthy discussion here sometime later documents the sort of trouble a blogger can get into suggesting some beers might have soul and others could be soulless. Anyway, Bryson writes,
“Those pioneering beers were great because of the heart and soul of the people who made them. I don’t want to see the soul go away. I don’t think that the beer world as we know it today could survivethat.”
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WHY LOOK FOR REASONS NOT TO LIKE A BEER?By Stan Hieronymus
on January
8, 2020 in musing
In _Drink Better Beer,_
author Josh Bernstein writes about spending a day with the sensory panel at Allagash Brewing in Maine, acting briefly as a panelisthimself.
> I ponder my sample of White, the brewery’s flagship witbier, which > should taste slightly sweet and sour, mildly bitter, and faintly of > minerals. “Tastes overly harsh,” I write in the iPad set up with > sensory software from DaughtLab, which collects data on panelists’ > impressions. “Too astringent.” I move on to the Belgian-style > Tripel, a beer evocative of honey, bubble game, grapes, and green > apples. “This is a sourness I don’t love,” I write. The > coffee-infused James Bean, a triple aged in bourbon barrels, has a > “drying sourness that turns me off,” while the smoothly malty > House Beer hits its pear and grapefruit notes.>
> _Whow, that was a lot of flawed beer,_ I think. Except, it turns out only the Tripel was adulterated, dosed withacetic acid.
Later Bernstein tastes three different samples of White, and documents the flaws in each. Except, it turns out two are flawless, and in fact, the same beer. “It’s a combination that I use often with guests and new tasters to show when they are overly critical,” says Karl Arnberg, who manages the sensory program as Allagash. Think about it for a moment. Why look for reasons not to like a beer? No doubt, quality is important. That’s why Bernstein invested a day in Portland, Maine. There’s good reason for those in the beer business to learn to identify what are classified as _off flavors_, and it useful to some to understand what causes them. Continue Reading →SHARE THIS:
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