The paragraph:

Part of this shift was driven by consumers discovering products they didn’t enjoy. In other cases, drinkers simply developed a clearer understanding of their preferences. The result was a return to familiar styles, including lagers, pale ales, and traditional IPAs.

h/t Alan McLeod.

The paragraph:

There is no easy way to read it.* I’m not reading it in the bath, it’s hard work in bed, and did I take it to read on my long journey to Utrecht? Did I bollocks! No way am I lugging it around either. So reading it something that can only be done by setting aside time in the evening and reading with it in resting on one of my legs. I’m currently about a third of the way through the book and reaching the end is not expected any time soon.

For more about The Session #150 see Boak & Bailey’s announcement.

* It = Martyn Cornell’s Porter and Stout: A Complete History.

The paragraph.

With a background in fine arts, I focus on design and refinement, coupled with an essential intellectual humility. I encourage peer review and believe all “institutional knowledge” is merely a hypothesis awaiting scientific editing. That said, I enjoy the occasional off-script random brew day, following what is in inventory and creating something wacky and undefinable.

The point of emphasis.

“institutional knowledge” is merely a hypothesis awaiting scientific editing.

The link.

“People need to get out from behind their phones, go to a bar and talk to each other,” (David Keene) said. “The Toronado has been a place where anybody from a punk rocker, a Deadhead, a strip mall developer, a motorcycle enthusiast and a conventioneer who’s a doctor could sit and start having conversations.”

Link No. 1.

The paragraph:

The first Latina-owned brewery in Colorado stormed onto the Colorado Springs scene in 2018 after home-brewer Jess Fierro took home the top prize in the six-episode docuseries “Beerland.” Following her win, Fierro took over ownership of Great Storm Brewing Co., and it evolved into Atrevida. The word is the feminine form of the Spanish word “bold.” After nearly eight years of “shared laughter, late nights and clinking glasses,” however, Atrevida will close its doors at 204 Mount View Lane, off North Nevada Avenue.

Link No. 2. This is behind a paywall, but I was able to read the story on my first visit.

The paragraph:

The brewery has also been a staunch advocate for representation in the craft beer industry, where women and Latinos account for 23.7% and 2.2% of brewery owners, respectively, according to a 2021 survey by trade group the Brewers Association. Atrevida’s motto is “Diversity, it’s on tap.”

If Atrevida was two steps forward for beer, this is three steps back.