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There’s a very naughty word I like to use.
“Dark fruit”
It comes up repeatedly when I’m describing beer. Like, “I get dark fruit up front…”
In my defense, I’m not alone. A search for the term on Beer Advocate yields over 765,000 results.
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It was an ironic situation.
Our BJCP study group was holding one of its bi-weekly meetings. Studying for the exam means refining your tasting abilities. Ideally, you and the other judges are in agreement on what you smell and taste in a beer. The first thing you do after a round of scoring is compare your score to that of your cohorts and hope you’re not too far off.
Yet this particular night, we were about to prove that no matter how hard we studied, mother nature has ensured that we’ll never taste things exactly the same.
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The internet punches have been flying.
It all started last week when BeerScribe’s Andy Crouch called for the death of beer cocktails and collaboration beers.
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In the beginning of the year I gave you my 12 beer predictions for 2012.
#11 stated that session beers still won’t reach mass popularity in 2012. Well, Lew Bryson is obviously trying to prove me wrong because April 7th is now Session Beer Day.
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His book Brewed Awakening
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What do you think you would turn up in Google if you searched “iPhone App Developer” 6 years ago?
Nothing.
The same thing would happen if you looked up “Wii accessories” before 2006.
My point is that with the rise of a new product or industry, there are always beneficiaries outside of the primary ones. When it comes to who benefits from craft beer, you think of the main players – breweries, distributors, beer retailers, and consumers.
But there is another type of business that’s been riding on the coatails of popular brands for years – merchandisers. And although beer merchandise has been around almost as long as commercially produced beer, there’s a noticeable shift going on in what that merchandise looks like thanks to craft beer.
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It’s been a while since I’ve talked about my keezer build, so I thought I’d give everyone an update.
I had a feeling that the video would help people out, but I didn’t expect it to get over 11k views and inspire so many people to do similar builds. Cool!
Where I last left off, I made the collar and had two out of the four taps hooked up, with caps in the other two holes.
I invite you to check out my keezer photo album on facebook where I just added new pictures.
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I’ve never reviewed a beer on this blog.
Strange, huh?
Sure I’ve talked about different beers and what I thought about them, but I’ve never done what you would call a “review post”.
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Starting a brewery is unique experience. If you’ve never been involved in it yourself, it’s hard to appreciate what goes into it.
Nick Nunns of TRVE Brewing gives us a look behind the scenes in this video. TRVE is opening Denver in the Spring of 2012 in the up and coming Baker neighborhood.
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It’s hard to believe, but today is the two year anniversary of this blog.
Man a lot has happened. I’ve met a ton of cool people, drank copious amounts of delicious beer, and even launched a business over at The Homebrew Academy.
To celebrate, I’m going to highlight the top posts from the blog. I didn’t celebrate the 1 year anniversary, which in a way is nice because it gives me 2 whole years of posts to choose from.
These are based on site stats, buzz in social media, and some of my favorites.
I hope you enjoy. Thanks to all my readers for making this thing fun and here’s to many more years of writing about the good stuff.
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Billy Broas is a craft beer lover, homebrewer, and the founder of
The Homebrew Academy. He lives in Denver, Colorado where he splits his time between imbibing and snowboarding, but often combines the two. Billy's beer philosophy is that we should all be beer geeks but not beer snobs. He'll try any beer once and is currently studying for his BJCP beer judge exam.
You can follow him on Twitter right here.
