Category: News from Other Beer Writers

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NAGBW – Sales Numbers

Back to hearing from other beer writers, this time economist and data expert Michael Ulrich of Seventh Point Analytic talks sales.

Here are my bullet points:

  • Don’t place bets on 2022 sales but if you had to bet on down
  • seeing more tweets on breweries for sale
  • cider generally filed with wine and seltzer under beer
  • the bigger – small brewers losing more share
  • 15-30k barrels the current sweet spot
  • prices are increasing compared to costs
  • wine and spirits have stockpiles compared to beer but the pandemic drew down the reserve which may cause prices to rise
  • 9 months from ingredient price rise to beer price rise
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San Diego Beer News Awards

Time to look to the south of L.A. to see who won at the San Diego Beer News Awards last night…

Let’s do the numbers….(rather, summarize the winners)

Eppig won the most combined medals for first, second and third place finishes amongst the 26 beer style categories.

Burgeon won most votes for best brewery with regional winners including…

North – Pure Project

Central – Societe

East – Stone

South – North Park Beer

Finally, Tomme Arthur won the first ever Vanguard Brewer Award.

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On the Vista

Don’t go out looking for a single hop pale or IPA just yet but there is a new hop varietal in the pipeline to look forward to, Vista

The link above is for a dedicated website just for it. You can even buy Vista merch. As for the hop itself, melon and stone fruit are the hallmarks of what it brings to the mash kettle.

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Ukranian Golden Ale

Get your reading glasses out because it is time to hyperlink and learn about Ukranian Golden Ale.

First start with Lana Svitankova who is behind the push for recognition of this style. Then, second, Jeff Alworth author of the Beer Bible gives his thoughts. Third is Kate Bernot’s take on the Good Beer Hunting site.

Happy reading!

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Hoptrippin’

Mitch Steele wrote the book on IPA and brewed it at both Stone and now New Realm and now he is back to blogging…

Hoptripper contains (under the New Realm website) his new writing and his archive too. I will be checking back on it to see what Steele is thinking about these days.

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Pop Culture Brews

Each month I post about books and beer and podcasts and beers. The Pop Culture Brews podcast does something similar to fun results. They have a guest and they combine a type of culture and talk about beers and hone brewing.

It is thus fun on two levels. Check it out.

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Hops in California

The Chicago Brewseum concluded their annual … a few days ago and one of the presentations was on hop growing in California, the Zoom via Facebook link is HERE.

Their Beer History Week is on my beer travel bucket list, maybe as soon as next year. Especially the Ales Through the Ages event.

In the meantime, please donate to their historical cause HERE.

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074 Not 007

There are many new hops at varying stages of development. Preeminent hop writer Stan Hieronymus fills us in on the as yet named, 074…

074 is USDA 2006009-074, the daughter of an open-pollinated tetraploid Perle plant. Adjectives attached to beers brewed with 074 include orange, lime peel, tropical, floral and stone fruit. As important, I’ve talked to farmers in New York, Michigan and Colorado who are growing 074, basically on an experimental basis, and she thrived in 2021.

Appellation Beer

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NAGBW – A Women’s Place is in the Brewhouse

Thankfully, I just finished the beer history book by Tara Nurin (A Woman’s Place is in the Brewhouse) that this talk revolved around. Lets see what this latest session hosted by the North American Guild of Beer Writers brought to my attention.

  • the term archival silence will probably start being used more
  • research during Covid was both harder and easier in different respects
  • who “hasn’t” been talked to for a story? usually a minority
  • you just have to turn your head slightly to see someone who was just as instrumental in a brewery’s success
  • the same silencing of women happens over and over as men take over, over and over
  • Tiah Edmunson-Morton is writing a book on the women married to Oregon brewers