Oregon is one of the most interesting and important beer regions in the United States, but you wouldn’t know it if you did a web search. No one does a very good job of telling the Oregon story. Until now. I’m excited to announce a new project to promote Oregon beer.
Read MoreA small paper suggests that long Covid makes hangovers more severe. Other research hints at similar associations following other viral infections. Could it be that Covid is at least partly responsible for the dent we’re seeing in alcohol sales?
Read MoreBefore it closed late last year, the Anchor Brewery had been making steam beer in San Francisco since 1896. Wait, are we really sure about that?
Read MoreDating breweries, like counting them, is an act of interpretation. Once a brewery’s age passes into the centuries, interruptions are certain. Sometimes breweries take advantage of those gaps to push their founding date backward. So let’s take the most famous date of all, Weihenstephan and 1040 CE.
Read MoreI’ve written about beer over the course of something like three million words and 27 years. Almost never in that time have I considered the role beer has played in my own life. Yet there it was, from adolescence forward, through periods when it never seemed to be center frame.
Read MoreTwo years ago, I was so impressed with an obscure technology called GPT-3 that I thought it merited mention on a beer blog. Last year, AI had become such a big deal I wrote a three-post series. We may have come to the final chapter: mundanity. In my possibly final post, I review the situation.
Read MoreOur friends at AB InBev have offered us a new beer promising a “fathomless palate squeeze.” Wait, what? And Juice Dust? That does not sound appetizing. What is going on here?
Read MoreIn which I look at the national beer market and make some interesting discoveries.
Read MoreDetroit native George Johnson founded Assembly Brewing in 2019, bringing the authentic pizza from his hometown to Portland. Over the weekend, he opened a second location. It is a great opportunity to revisit the tale of George’s incredible perseverance.
Read MoreAbout a year ago, Rogue launched its Dead Guy brand family of new beers. That wasn’t a superficial lunge at a popular strategy, however, but rather the first step on a multi-year plan for reinvention.
Read MoreMy final post about Central Europe involves the physical spaces in Budapest, one of the most historically interesting cities in Europe.
Read MoreWhile I was in Europe, Carlsberg announced it would finally stop using the antiquate Burton Union system used to make Marston’s Pedigree in Burton, England. The news was sad, but it came far later than I ever expected. A eulogy for a technology that was once state of the art.
Read MoreI have spent the last ten days in Central Europe catching up on the local beer scenes and talking to brewers from the region. Here’s an overview of what I found.
Read MoreMy third visit to Prague is really the first I’ve gotten to know the city, even superficially.
Read MoreI managed to get inside the old brewhouse at U Fleků yesterday, and offer this illustrated peek inside.
Read MoreSome travel notes, a weather report, and an open invitation
Read MoreI was recently served a bottle of Corona at a Mexican restaurant. Instead of the familiar blue-and-white label, this giant bottle had a brown one. It was a great beer, and I’ve been trying to figure out what it was ever since.
Read MoreAs Portland mayor/bar owner Bud Clark once told me, “A lot of stuff happens in taverns, you know!” I do, Bud, and here’s an example.
Read MoreA little more than a year ago, Rodney Williams became the North American President of Diageo Beer Company. I was curious how he thinks about the Guinness brand, the beer industry more generally, and what the future holds.
Read MoreIs it possible that the most unusual brewery in America is the one that just makes two beers? Brienne Allan and Michael Fava are certainly making a compelling case with Sacred Profane, their year-old project in Biddeford, Maine.
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