Budweiser vs. American Craft Beer: An Update
Let’s stop seeing the consequences of our continued support of beers like Budweiser and Coors and Miller and Pabst as abstractions. They are NOT.
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American Craft Beer: Confusing Evolution with The Apocalypse
Yes, the paradigm has changed. NO, that is NOT a harbinger of impeding doom, the oft-whined about “death of craft beer”.
Jones Creek Brewing: A Disturbance in The Force
I would have been impressed with these beers if I had found them in Ballard or Portland but finding them in a completely rural, somewhat isolated (albeit WILDLY beautiful) valley in far southwest Washington was a SHOCK.
Obec (O-Betz) Brewing: As In Seattle, so in YOUR Hometown
There is a tangible difference in quality, balance, depth, and unblemished flavor between the best breweries and all those which exist in that continuum of Merely Good. Obec has that.
Deschutes “Symphonic Chronic”: Megaphonic
This is a fine can o’ suds, here. As convenience store offerings go, this is the Maserati in a garage full of Kias.
Double Mountain “Go Ask Talus”: Great Beer, Bad Pun
Talus goes from dank to stunningly complex without breaking a sweat. Flavors innate to this flower cavort around your mouth like some barely-controlled naked bacchanalia.
US Craft Beer: The Sky is Falling/No, It’s Not
A staunchly adolescent business category, one that existed in a sort of arrested-development haze for two+ decades, has begun to grow up.
Killing Bud, Getting the Guns: Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Within 20 – 25 years, yes, there will still be guns. But there can also be fewer guns and a significant glimmer of hope for a safer, more rational, more mature culture. And we can do this…one by one.
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