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“INDIE BEER”: Change is the Best Weapon
I’ll probably take some static about this…and I deserve to… From this day forth, what we now call “craft brewing” and “craft beer” will no longer be referred to by that label, here. For a couple of...
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Rant # Two on Hard Seltzer: On the Occasion of Idiocy
I made the grave strategic error of reading an article from GoodBeerHunting, on my Facebook feed, this morning, entitled, “White Claw Might Be The Only Thing That Can Save Craft Beer From Itself“....
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Deschutes “Jubelale”: An American Icon, Reimagined
People ask me at least two, three dozen times a month, “What’s your favorite beer?“I’ve been tasting – as in sip half an ounce, swirl in mouth, linger, and spit. NOBODY can do this job and drink a...
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Deschutes Whiskey Butte: The Dangerous Sublime
A new American-style Porter, aged in American Whiskey barrels? Yes, please! This was the essence of High Concept: take one of the nation’s most honored, emulated, and consumed Porters, lay down a fair...
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Deschutes Black Butte NA: No Alcohol, No Suckage
There has been a…uh…problem with Non-alcoholic beers…Ever since the first fumbling attempts, back in the Buckler and Beck’s Blue and O-Doul’s and Kaliber days, the same problem afflicted every single...
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“It’s Happening Again”: Stone Brewing is the New Pearl Harbor
“It Is Happening Again…”Yeah, I feel okay about culturally misappropriating a Twin Peaks line and meme. I earned it, bucko. I put in TIME with that series and have stayed hands off for decades.But,...
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Deschutes “Tropical Fresh” IPA: Voluptuous Clarity
The conventional wisdom has it that Big Fruit = Hazy... Deschutes provides some Clarity The word on the street was “Fruit”… Fruit…in beer? Well…okay. I guess. After literal generations of beer being...
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Killing Bud, Getting the Guns: Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Guns are about Fear. That is the bottom line and the absolutely inarguable fact. (This is a post that originally appeared here in September of 2014, about four months after this website was...
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US Craft Beer: The Sky is Falling/No, It’s Not
Here’s my very real question: WHY is bemoaning the decline and doom of craft brewing such an all-consuming obsession to so many people? Beer pundits used to be content with debating attenuation and...
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Budweiser vs. American Craft Beer: An Update
(NOTE: In the aftermath of the delightful specter of our grave national shame, the Lunatic Right, literally stickin’ a fork into Anheuser Busch or AB/InBev or whatever that pack of corporate jackals...
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