Stan Hieronymus

Another great Sox v Yanks baseball game last evening - but with another outcome compared to game #1. It’s all getting settled tonight. Does anything else matter? Beer gossip? Pfft. Stats and graphs? Not so much. Legal news about the brewing trade? How can it compare? Well, check it out and see…

End of an era as Upright Brewing announces closure — New School Beer + Cider Upright Brewing will close at the end of 2025 and shut down their brewery and homebase in NE Portland if no new buyer is found. The Upright Beer Station in N. Portland will remain open as a taphouse ...

Take a deep breath.

Didn't work, still true.

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News, nuggets and longreads 27 September 2025: A New New Me Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got struggling pubs, Gen Z abstinence and Indian craft beer.

GOOD MORNING! Pubs are struggling. The 2026 Good Beer Guide is "a triumph". Craft beer is still growing in India. Gen Z really isn't drinking. BrewDog beers have lost their edge. Nobody really knows which is the oldest pub in London. New Boddies is "drinkable". 🍺🍻

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Plenty of hot news in the weekly update. Scorching might actually be the word. Not steaming, however. Too close to steamy. Nope. Look elsewhere for that. Definitely.

Aspen showing off along the Peak to Peak Biway north of Nederland

Aspen showing off along the Peak to Peak Biway north of Nederland

Aspen showing off along the Peak to Peak Biway north of Nederland

Do not wait. Aspen are hitting peak Aspen along the Peak to Peak Biway.

9.05: Transitions, new products, and plenty of fresh hops - HOP QUERIES * John I. Haas & Hop Head Farms * Advanced forms and functions * Fresh hops: The science * Fresh hops: The controversy (?) * Hop profile: Over/underrated Welcome to Vol. 9, No. 5. In the introduction ...

Hop Queries 9.05 has been dispatched. If you are a subscriber and you don't see it, check you spam folder. It ran a little long. If you aren't a subscriber, find it archived here:

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At my local beer store, they break apart 4-packs and 6-packs to create mixed packs, which is terrific because there are scores of Colorado (and other US) festbiers and marzens to choose from. Little German beyond the usual suspects.

News, nuggets and longreads 20 September 2025: La Belle et la Bête Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got honey beer, gale beer, and estate pubs.

GOOD MORNING! This week's round up has zombie brands, dead pubs, cask beer in Italy, and more. 🍺🍻

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Chimps, ethanol & figs.

You buried the lead, Alan, but I do appreciate the research.

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News, nuggets and longreads 13 September 2025: Dead Reckoning Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got GBBF, Mexico, malt, and more.

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular weekly round up of good writing about beer and pubs, with lots of beer history, as well as commentary on clickbait trends, and the week's big news story. 🍺🍻

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You show up for the weekly beer news but did you know about True Black Brandywine? Hmm… just as I expected. Time for a little “TNT!” - and the rest of “The Delightful Yet Pensively Penultimate Beery News Notes On A Summer’s Thursday For 2025”:

Future Primitive Nazi Punks Fuck Off! at Alki Beach in West Seattle.

Currently drinking: Future Primitive Nazi Punks Fuck Off!

Would drink again

And again.

And again.

That's the boil.

Chris Baum fills buckets with fresh Citra. Kevin Watson loads them into a (makeshift) shredder.

Kevin Watson (Future Primitive) and freshly shredded Citra at Varietal Beer Co. in Sunnyside, Wash.

It’s work done, a shredder is covered in hop dust.

Fresh Citra in the kettle at Varietal Beer.

Shredding Citra.

Chris Baum (Varietal Beer) and Kevin Watson (Future Primitive) shredding fresh Citra before it heads to the kettle. A little lupulin gets left behind.

Plenty of news this week, plenty of challenges facing the brewing trade but also plenty… well some… fine, a few rays of sunshine… maybe… well, whatever they are here they are!

A pint of Kolsch on the bar at Fritz family brewers

When @stanhieronymus.bsky.social tells you to go to a brewery and try the Kölsch, you must obey. So here I am at Fritz Family Brewing in Niwot, Colorado.

Drinking Beer For Science — Beervana Some exciting new research is happening as I write this, and will examine why fresh hops taste different than dried ones. Four breweries are participating, and Oregon State University will be analyzin...

Some exciting new research is happening as I write this, and will examine why fresh hops taste different than dried ones. Four breweries are participating, and Oregon State University will be analyzing them. Here are the details.

When pub signs go big and go viral As social media erodes around us, perhaps physical advertising could help pubs get found – and convey what makes them unique.

Spoiler alert:

"Pubs are about humans, organic connections, and personality.

"AI is… not that."

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A list of beer analyses of Munich beers, with Bock and Salvator at original gravities between 18.1 and 19.9°P, Märzenbier at 16.1°P, Spatenbräutafelbier at 27.4°P, Sommerbier of various breweries at 14.4-14.8°P, Winterbier at 13.7-14.1°P, and finally Helles Spatenbräu with an ABW of 2.69%, residual extract of 6.5%, and OG of 11.7°P, and a real attenuation of 45.7%. Source: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb11839141?page=1122,1123&q=%28%22helles+spatenbr%C3%A4u%22%7E3%29

A graph from the book "Münchner Brauindustrie 1871-1945" by Christian Schäder showing the percentages of Sommerbier, Winterbier and Helles Bier of Spaten's total beer sales between 1881 and 1914. Sommerbier climbs from over 60 to over 80% in 1890 and then slowly drops to roughly 50% until a steeper drop from 1907 until 1909 to roughly 30%, and remains at that level. Winterbier is the inverse: starting from 40% and dropping to about 20% in 1890, it slowly goes up to 40% in 1907, then up to more than 50% by 1909, then going to about 60% by 1914. The graph for Helles Bier only starts in 1904 and never seems to go over 10%. The numbers are just rough estimations because the graph does not give precise indicators about the Y axis values further right in the graph.

The often-mentioned first "modern Helles" by Spaten was a weird beer. Original gravity 11.7°P, just 2.69% ABW (about 3.4% ABV), and a real attenuation of just 45.7%. And it was not super popular, either: from 1895 until WW1, it accounted for only about 10% of Spaten's beer sales.

#beerhistory

News, nuggets and longreads 30 August 2025: Married to the Mob Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Suffolk pubs, Scottish lager and American steel.

GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with quite a bit of in-the-weeds geeky stuff about science, scoring and brewery financing. 🍺🍻

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An old man, looking worried, in his brewhouse, next to a large steel cauldron hanging from steel chains.

We've lost another carrier of the brewing tradition: Svein Rivenes from Voss died yesterday, at the age of 85. He's best known for being the owner of kveik #2. Martin Thibault and I had his vossaøl back in 2014 and were absolutely blown away. It was really fantastic.

Some thoughts on research into beer by non-brewing scientists: edsbeer.blogspot.com/2025/08/im-f...

Way too many words to qualify as a vacation post.

"Leaving me feel baited and switched in my continuing quest for sour IPA." We've all been there, right?

I often wonder - does anyone read this stuff? Well, according to one landlord who messaged me elsewhere, 16 people cited the Telegraph Magazine for their reason to visit his pub yesterday. I’m v pleased about that.

We need competitions around UK-hopped lagers, whether from eg Farams, or part of Champion Beer of Britain or however.

It may seem a bit of a leap for CAMRA, but plight of UK hop growers is an existential threat to trad cask beer and growing hops for lager is one way to preserve trad cask.

News, nuggets and longreads 23 August 2025: Inugami Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got wet tables, water jousting and Czech hops. First, some news: Martin Dickie has left BrewDog, the brewery...

GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with notes on soggy pub tables, Franconian river jousting, and the wider world of Czech hop varieties. 🍻🍺

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What does it mean to grow ‘more’ hops? Hop harvest has begun in Oregon (where I’ll be in two weeks). This is roadkill from a previous harvest. Perhaps I will try to make “fun with numbers” a semi-regular Friday feature…

Which state will harvest more hops in 2025, Idaho or Oregon?

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Where's Pete's Wicked Ale? Should it scare me that I had the same thought?

The bar at Hagstravaganza, at The White Hag brewery, Ballymote, Co. Sligo.

The biggest beer festival in the Atlantic North-West, #Hagstravaganza, was on the Saturday before last. Here's how it went for me: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/08/wicc...