Interesting times these are, for sure. Great beers are available in abundance, and more to come. Beer aficionados must feel as if they’re in Walhalla and should be happy. Or should they worry? I don’t know for sure. Interesting times, and sometimes we get interesting news. Read the below and make up your own mind ...
Musing the future of craft beer (2) – Cans on a roll
Interesting times these are, for sure. Great beers are available in abundance, and more to come. Beer aficionados must feel as if they’re in Walhalla and should be happy. Or should they worry? I don’t know for sure. Interesting times, and sometimes we get interesting news. Read the below and make up your own mind ...
Musing the future of craft beer – Trees growing into heaven
Interesting times these are, for sure. Great beers are available in abundance, and more to come. Beer aficionados must feel as if they’re in Walhalla and should be happy. Or should they worry? I don’t know for sure. Interesting times, and sometimes we get interesting news. Read the below and make up your own mind ...
RUBY TUESDAY – Will ‘open source’ beer lead to flavorful or flavorless beer?
The news came to me via a tweet by Gerard Molenaar, editor of Entree Magazine (amongst others) and a fanatic blogger on good beer on Hopstersblog. In his tweet Gerard asked ‘would you want this, as a brewer?’ – he had me sitting straight up at once. He referred to an article in Retail Trends ...
OHIM – Big Brewer becomes ‘Big Brother’
It was a huge ripple in the internet pond last week: AB InBev, the world's largest brewer who controls more than 30% of global beer production and sales, has acquired a minority stake in Ratebeer already in 2016, as reported by Good Beer Hunting. The deal was deliberately kept secret from the (larger) public. The ...
TGIF – Beer in numbers, and what exactly is ‘quality’?
Every year, the American Craft Brewers Conference offers instructive insights into the market where the beer revolution originated - the revolution that also inspired hundreds of new brewers and breweries and thousands of consumers in Europe, who all suddenly did understand that there is more than pils, blond, triple and witbier alone. More than 13,000 ...