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David Nilsen @davidnilsenbeer.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:22 UTC

Big thanks to @beervana.bsky.social for this great write up on Final Gravity! www.beervanablog.com/beervana/202...

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 21:34 UTC

My father’s position is that you shouldn’t start drinking until the pm. This leaves one terrible hour of no indulgences.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:30 UTC

A year ago, David Nilsen and Melinda Guerra launched Final Gravity, an old-school paper-copy zine. It may seem like a perverse move in our digital age, but its very tangibility has new salience in a world where the rest of words we read are mere pulses of light.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 15:11 UTC

I share many of your worries, but they’re not all related nor equivalent.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 00:07 UTC

Well, that’s an entirely different matter. I was talking about the effect on content producers and workers—as were you.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 16:02 UTC

This is why I’m not super freaked out by a world with AI. Some will use it judiciously, some won’t use it at all, and some will flood the zone with garbage. Same as it ever was….

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:50 UTC

Evan’s your guide here, but: Pivovarský dům has awesome food in addition to great beer. Lokal is good to get a sense of how local, young drinkers hang out. Go there late. I have to make a pitch for the polotmavy at Strahov. Skip Matuska. Good lager, but very American and there are better places.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:44 UTC

Did you ever wonder if the art on a beer can might have been generated by AI? Increasingly, the answer is likely to be yes. Let’s look examples from two breweries to see where this is all headed.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 15:10 UTC

On Monday night, Cascade Brewing announced it was closing, effective immediately. It was one of the most indelible of the golden-age sour breweries, and its beers were truly unlike any others on the market. A remembrance.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 20:55 UTC

Who needs Centennials when I have Perles?

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 15:52 UTC

All saisons and brut IPAs! We’ll be rich!

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 15:27 UTC

How many tanks are sitting empty in the brewing industry? Excess capacity is one way to assess the health of a market, and looking at figures from the Brewers Association, things don’t look good.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 14:19 UTC

I hate criticizing my colleagues, but holy moly, this piece. Five years ago, cock your head and squint and maaaaaaaaybe the argument made sense. But today it’s crazy. I clicked through and learned the writer is from Boston. He needs to get out more often.

Hat tip @stanhieronymus.bsky.social

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 20:56 UTC

Wish I was there!

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 22:26 UTC

No top ten breweries list this year. But I can’t leave you entirely in the lurch, so here’s Portland’s brewery of the year. As a fun factoid, it has never appeared on one of my top-ten lists, either. Who says beer isn’t exciting anymore?

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 14:56 UTC

“I’m disappointed.”

— @stanhieronymus.bsky.social, commenting on my post.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

I tried to stay on the right side of the “rube” line there—and I really hope the flowers and sunshine promised by this acquisition come to pass, for all involved.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 14:59 UTC

In his latest VinePair piece, @dinfontay.bsky.social speaks for the Anchor workers (and strafes me along the way). And he’s right: with any owner, the rule has to be: show me, don’t tell me.

We’ll see.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 22:44 UTC

I hadn’t seen that until I replied. That is a TREMENDOUS comment, exactly in the spirit of the post. 🙏

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 21:08 UTC

Is it the other half of Citramosaic?

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 17:43 UTC

Please share! Comments were closed accidentally and now wide open.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 17:43 UTC

I noticed that and fixed it. Try now! And how dare you impugn our elite team of researchers!

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 15:24 UTC

In an ambitious new enterprise of Beervana Amalgamated Sentences, researchers have been assembled to identify the superlatives of the beer world. In today’s inaugural edition, they list the finest hops in the world.s

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 18:09 UTC

It's crazy how we have befriended these little predators!

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 14:37 UTC

Well, they’re no VinePair.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 14:12 UTC

With a pull quote like that, I’m having a very hard time clicking through. (By contrast, I hate the fascination with British royalty/upper classes. I have no idea why Americans go crazy for movies about the Victorian aristocracy sitting around a drawing room in absurd clothes.)

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

Sad Trombone.

“Suntory Holdings ‘denies talks’ over Boston Beer acquisition”

finance.yahoo.com/news/suntory...

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

Chobani owner Hamdi Ulukaya has purchased Anchor Brewing, including the building, brewhouse, and brand. Who is Ulukaya and why did he buy the brewery?

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 22:58 UTC

Eight Days hence! Go to Prost! in Portland, taste and rate 12 pilsners, possibly win a trip to Germany! I have been invited to be one of the "beer and industry professionals" judging as well. A few years ago they did this and it was pretty cool. Sun's out, pilsner's out. You know the drill.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 16:08 UTC

When a brewer tweaks the formula and gives a name to their new creation, we tend to want to use the lens of “style” to understand what’s happening. That’s not always the best way to think about things, though.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 15:51 UTC

This is covfefe day for all who celebrate.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 14:28 UTC

This strikes me less as the story of a new style than one of local beer culture. I dont think a mid-strength hoppy ale is particularly novel, but Australia’s embrace of it may be:

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 18:44 UTC

New perspectives might be helpful.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 18:15 UTC

I get it, too, but had I been at the table I would have replied: “Yes, our industry needs to be receptive to people who drink the FMBs our members make—but at the &@#%! *GABF*, we’re sticking with actual beer.”

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 18:13 UTC

😂

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 18:13 UTC

I wouldn’t put it that way, but they are still suffering from having a mission that was for years incompatible with the beer market and now they’re paying a price backtracking.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 14:58 UTC

2015 Brewers Association rolling over in its grave over 2024 Brewers Association GABF planning.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 16:06 UTC

Art Larrance, founder of Portland Brewing and the Oregon Brewers Festival in the 1980s and the Raccoon Lodge/Cascade Brewing in the 1990s and 2000s, died over the weekend. He left a large legacy and helped create the culture that defines the state.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 26, 2024 at 15:58 UTC

One excellent case study in Portland is Brujos Brewing, which turned the inside of their warehouse into a “scorched cathedral” (the theme is gothy/horror). It was a mostly cosmetic job and pretty cheap.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

That makes it more challenging, for sure. But so many breweries do basically nothing to personalize these spaces, and I can’t blame people for not choosing them as their local hang. How you decorate your space is up to you—not its location.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 03:44 UTC

You may disagree with me! (Everyone’s allowed to be wrong. 😉)

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 15:54 UTC

Is May the season of our discontent, or is there just something in the air? Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of grumbling about hazy IPAs, a sense of lost fun, and a generalized mood of dyspepsia. But I think things are pretty good.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

Lovely vignette by @highanddry.bsky.social.

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