Things have been pretty quiet here lately, with some traveling, legal work, and more recently, work on the new book project. And I expect it’ll be quiet here, a bit of a summer hiatus perhaps. I’m leaving on Thursday for DC to attend the second annual SAVOR event and the promotion for this year’s event [...]
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In an article in today’s Washington Post, author Greg Kitsock writes a lengthy column on the long-running dispute over the Brewers Association’s restrictive and political definition of craft beer. Loyal and unloyal readers alike will recall that the definitional debate is something we have covered here on a number of occasions, and here, here, and [...]
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With massive layoffs, precipitous drops in consumer spending, and a near complete drying up of the credit markets, the American economic scene looks positively dreadful. And while things look bad in the broader economy, beer industry people have been biting their fingernails over how their businesses will fare. In recent months, beer lovers across the [...]
The local newspapers have finally gotten around to writing about the Lord Hobo’s drama and fight in Cambridge to attain its license. In what looks like a rewrite of my previous articles on the subject, the Herald offers nothing beyond what we’ve already reported, except that owner Daniel Lanigan doesn’t want to talk to the [...]
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Things have been pretty quiet around here, with only the occasional Twitter update in recent weeks. I’m still trying to square the impact of Twitter on this site, balancing the convenience and lure of short, quick Twitter posts and the longer ones required here. In any event, it’s been a long and busy few weeks, [...]
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