Time to dive into the first double digit Final Gravity, # 10…
I love a theme. From This American Life to short story anthologies, I truly enjoy when disparate views center onto one idea. So when I saw that this edition of Final Gravity had a social justice bent to it, I was excited. But Issue 10 is hit and miss.
There are a couple pieces where beer is mentioned (sometimes with specific beers name checked) but the overall piece is not beer at all and even the featured artist section is 3/4 non-beer graphic art from someone who has stepped away from beer. Not to diminish the sober viewpoint but I am left to wonder why a beer-centric ‘zine isn’t focusing on beer and art especially with crap AI being used more and more on beer labels and actual beer label design needing champions.
That being said, there were a few pieces that had golden nuggets of knowledge tucked into them, like…
The South Has Something to Say: Our Culture Brewing by David Nilsen—Atlanta. Southern ag. What’s worth fighting for.
Almaza, Momento of a Life in Lebanon by J.D. Harlock—Lebanon. Economic recession. The nostalgia of a local lager.
Returning to Shawshank at the Phoenix Brewing Company by Carmone Macfarlane—Crows. Mansfield, Ohio. The only guilty man in Shawshank.
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