Jeff Alworth

Only a third of Americans thought bombing Iran was justified. (YouGov poll, today)

The beer cultures of the East and West coast are often surprisingly different!

I’ve personally never known any brewery where it wasn’t the brewer’s project. Though I think if you could figure out how to keep the glitter from settling you’d have a potential commercial hit.

To my dying day I will defend glitter beer. Sparkly!

Mississippi location.

Holy crap, Von Ebert has a food truck making some of the best Mexican food I’ve ever tasted. Two plates, $30, and it could be 10x that in Manhattan. Obvs, Von Evert’s beer was up to the challenge. I will try not to pitch a tent outside the brewery.

“This is the best economy we’ve ever had, everyone agrees. And dog food is cheap and quite nutritious!”

America’s a funny place. It’s never shaken its puritan roots, so you simultaneously get unexplainable sexual and vice-based rectitude along with guns and gore and unrestrained capitalism and its horrors.

Yet another way in which Canada is superior to the U.S.

A Blogging Tale (Mostly True) — Beervana This blog turns 20 years old today—almost old enough to drink legally! I reflect on what an immense presence it has had in my life.

This blog turns 20 years old today—almost old enough to drink legally! I reflect on what an immense presence it has had in my life.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Auspicious!

A Blogging Tale (Mostly True) — Beervana This blog turns 20 years old today—almost old enough to drink legally! I reflect on what an immense presence it has had in my life.

This blog turns 20 years old today—almost old enough to drink legally! I reflect on what an immense presence it has had in my life.

We’re back to “I heard if you swallow gum it stays in your system for seven years” times. Could be, who can say!?

You’re Invited: My Free Talk on America’s Beer Culture — Beervana On Thursday, I’ll be telling the very interesting story about American beer culture in a webinar for WSET. It’s a multigenerational epic and describes the birth of a new national brewing tradition—the...

On Thursday, I’ll be telling the very interesting story about American beer culture in a webinar for WSET. It’s a multigenerational epic and describes the birth of a new national brewing tradition—the first we’ve seen in nearly 200 years. Details herein.

I haven’t thought too much about least bad. The U.S. constitution was drafted, blindly, in the 18th century and a big part of the logic that guided it was appeasing rural slaveholders. So we have a long way to improve on our beta version worst bad democratic structures.

* I’m fundamentally underdog-oriented, and watching a country of 350m beat up on one with 10m doesn’t fill me with pride the way it does many. I also love to travel and feel positively about most places.

I find myself being *more* patriotic during these games than usual.* (see post below) But I don’t think many of these athletes are MAGA, and I empathize with the conflict they must feel wearing the red, white, and blue. Most must want to be pro-USA without the taint of Trump.

But those American breweries weren’t growth machines. Even in their heyday, they had tiny volumes. My sense is that Vault City does smoothie sour-type beers, which are more popular, but which don’t generate the sales to grow a brewery the way VC has. Beer is culture!

And by “wouldn’t work” I mean as a perpetual-motion growth machine.

In their weekly roundup B&B provide an update on Vault City and its industry-defying growth. VC makes flavored beers, mostly (I think) sours. They’ve been growing for years, and each time I encounter the news, I’m mystified. It says something about the UK, but what? VC wouldn’t work in the U.S.

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

The Oregon Beverage Collective and GoSelfDistro and Model Craft Beer’s Newest Trend: Collectivization — Beervana Collectives aren’t a new thing in the beer industry, but they usually involve larger breweries. Two newly-born collectives show how it might be even more valuable for smaller players.

Collectives aren’t a new thing in the beer industry, but they usually involve larger breweries. Two newly-born collectives show how it might be even more valuable for smaller players.

The Oregon Beverage Collective and GoSelfDistro and Model Craft Beer’s Newest Trend: Collectivization — Beervana Collectives aren’t a new thing in the beer industry, but they usually involve larger breweries. Two newly-born collectives show how it might be even more valuable for smaller players.

Collectives aren’t a new thing in the beer industry, but they usually involve larger breweries. Two newly-born collectives show how it might be even more valuable for smaller players.

Thanks! It helps to be old when you make one of these lists because you lived through the period in question—but you have to survey those years with your increasingly rickety old memory, so it’s got its own challenges.

Okay, what’s in the air? @parkermolloy.com and I are tapping into some weird fragment of the collective unconscious here.

Timeline cleanse, let's talk beer.
This is a super interesting list, thanks @beervana.bsky.social!
To me the most interesting is understanding hop products and new hop varietals. If there were a class on this I'd sign up in a hot minute

The 17 Things That Changed Beer in the Past Two Decades — Beervana In the first celebratory post of my 20 years blogging, I offer a list of the 17 most transformational developments in beer in the past two decades. Which items made the list: Glitter beer? Brut IPA? T...

In the first celebratory post of my 20 years blogging, I offer a list of the 17 most transformational developments in beer in the past two decades. Which items made the list: Glitter beer? Brut IPA? The vortex bottle? I offer the definitive answers.

It was about a day, too.