A beer walks into a bar… Beer styles are human inventions—categories, labels, our best attempts to pin behavior onto a liquid that never sits still long enough to stay pinned. Yet we’ve always borrowed the…
Browsing Category Craft Beer
Essays on craft beer, beer styles, brewing culture, tasting, and the philosophy of the pint. Equal parts appreciation, irreverence, and beer geekery, these posts explore the culture, history, and sensory joy behind well-made beer without taking any of it too seriously.
An Open Letter to Big Beer |
We'll Always Have Bryan Adams
I wrote this letter to Big Beer over 10 years ago as a joke. Some inside craft beer geek humor. Today, it reads like something else entirely: a reflective, a memoir-esque piece on identity, and the strange way we drift away from the comfort of assumed permanence without knowing how or when it happened.
Seventeen Syllables per Beer |
A Haiku Journey Through Every Major Craft Beer Style
Back when I was obsessed with craft beer, I homebrewed hundreds of gallons, earned a Certified Cicerone title, and immersed myself in the BJCP style guidelines. I turned every major beer style family into a haiku. This post is a poetic guide for beer geeks, homebrewers, and lovers of well-crafted ale.