Santa Cruz Live interviews Charlie Bamforth, who since 1999 he has held the Anheuser-Busch endowed professorship of malting and brewing at University of California-Davis. Here’s a sample:
Q: Do you ever do any home-brewing?
A: No. If I was a brain surgeon, I wouldn’t go home and operate on my wife. I leave my day job there.
We used to write a column for Brew Your Own Magazine called “Microbreweries You Never Heard Of.” Some of them you’ll never hear of again - they are long gone. But others such as Saint Arnold Brewing or Weyerbacher Brewing continue to grow.
What’s refreshing is that small breweries continue to open and some that don’t […]
Nicholas Lezard reviews 300 Beers to Try Before You Die! Yes, still another “before you die” list and still another “best beers” list. Lezard is properly skeptical:
There is much advice these days, many lists shoved in our faces, of experiences we ought to have before we pass away; such is the contemporary secular eschatology. But […]
Yes, another beer story from the Wall Street Journal, this one asking the question, “Can the lowly beer can and high-style craft beer coexist?”
Writer Ken Wells quickly addresses the bias against packaging craft beers in cans:
By the early 1980s, the beer can became a symbol of everything that was wrong with brewing among a small, […]
Let’s hear it for the New Hampshire Craftbrewers Association. What started as a project to map beer-related sites in New Hampshire using Google Maps turned into a giant beer map of the United States. Using the map as you shift from one part of the country to another can be a little tricky, but it’s […]
The British seem to be much better at making good use of beer mats than we (in the U.S) are with beer coasters. The BBC reports that a warning about the perils of walking on cliffs around Cornwall has been printed on beer mats after three people fell from the cliffs in a short period. […]
Roger Baylor, the always opinionated publican at Rich O’s in New Albany, Ind., has rolled out the The Potable Curmudgeon blog.
All you need to know is right there in the masthead:
“America’s megabrewers have done for beer what Pol Pot did for Cambodia.”
Welcome to the world of beer as viewed by the founder of […]
