Brian Alberts
@brewedculture.org
Historian, writer, dad studying the cultural history of beer. Footnotes and pizza both Chicago style. He/him
Are we sure he hasn't been hearing "piece of the prize" instead "peace prize" this whole time?
January 3, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Are we sure he hasn't been hearing "piece of the prize" instead "peace prize" this whole time?
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Cerveza Polar, Venezuela, c1950.
January 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Cerveza Polar, Venezuela, c1950.
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In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."
December 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."
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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
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It’s not just the US and the UK: the EU’s beer consumption is now below 2019 levels — and falling. Meanwhile, new regulations on labeling and packaging are likely to hit small breweries the hardest. What’s at risk? Part of European culture.
vinepair.com/articles/eu-...
vinepair.com/articles/eu-...
In the EU, Breweries Face Stricter Regulations, Cultural Shifts
Things haven’t been easy for beer culture in North America, with the Brewers Association recently reporting another year of declines in both sales volumes and the number of U.S. craft breweries. Simil...
vinepair.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
It’s not just the US and the UK: the EU’s beer consumption is now below 2019 levels — and falling. Meanwhile, new regulations on labeling and packaging are likely to hit small breweries the hardest. What’s at risk? Part of European culture.
vinepair.com/articles/eu-...
vinepair.com/articles/eu-...
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ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
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So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I'm almost done publishing some casual links between German and American beer riots in the mid-1800s.
I helped a journalist contextualize oral histories from small-scale mezcaleros in Oaxaca
And now I'm working to pick apart the knotty cultural histories behind American Oktoberfest beers.
I helped a journalist contextualize oral histories from small-scale mezcaleros in Oaxaca
And now I'm working to pick apart the knotty cultural histories behind American Oktoberfest beers.
Academics: what's the best bit of knowledge you created this year?
I co-authored a new model of the Irish Neolithic, effectively rewriting social structure and the role of large funerary monuments for the creation of community identities
I co-authored a new model of the Irish Neolithic, effectively rewriting social structure and the role of large funerary monuments for the creation of community identities
What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.
December 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I'm almost done publishing some casual links between German and American beer riots in the mid-1800s.
I helped a journalist contextualize oral histories from small-scale mezcaleros in Oaxaca
And now I'm working to pick apart the knotty cultural histories behind American Oktoberfest beers.
I helped a journalist contextualize oral histories from small-scale mezcaleros in Oaxaca
And now I'm working to pick apart the knotty cultural histories behind American Oktoberfest beers.
PDX friends!
Cinemagic Theater in Portland will be screening "Rainier: A Beer Odyssey" on Jan 16-18.
It recounts Rainier's iconic advertising from the 1970s on, and gives a fun glimpse of classic Seattle/PNW culture.
I loved it, personally.
www.thecinemagictheater.com/coming-attra...
Cinemagic Theater in Portland will be screening "Rainier: A Beer Odyssey" on Jan 16-18.
It recounts Rainier's iconic advertising from the 1970s on, and gives a fun glimpse of classic Seattle/PNW culture.
I loved it, personally.
www.thecinemagictheater.com/coming-attra...
Coming Attractions — The Cinemagic Theater
Coming soon to the Cinemagic Theater in Portland, Oregon.
www.thecinemagictheater.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
PDX friends!
Cinemagic Theater in Portland will be screening "Rainier: A Beer Odyssey" on Jan 16-18.
It recounts Rainier's iconic advertising from the 1970s on, and gives a fun glimpse of classic Seattle/PNW culture.
I loved it, personally.
www.thecinemagictheater.com/coming-attra...
Cinemagic Theater in Portland will be screening "Rainier: A Beer Odyssey" on Jan 16-18.
It recounts Rainier's iconic advertising from the 1970s on, and gives a fun glimpse of classic Seattle/PNW culture.
I loved it, personally.
www.thecinemagictheater.com/coming-attra...
Grandma has the kids making spriographs.
I understand it's supposed to discourage gang activity later in life.
I understand it's supposed to discourage gang activity later in life.
December 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Grandma has the kids making spriographs.
I understand it's supposed to discourage gang activity later in life.
I understand it's supposed to discourage gang activity later in life.
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May it be a light for you in dark places...
when all other lights go out...
(Tavern wall, taken tonight in a small Wisconsin town)
when all other lights go out...
(Tavern wall, taken tonight in a small Wisconsin town)
December 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
May it be a light for you in dark places...
when all other lights go out...
(Tavern wall, taken tonight in a small Wisconsin town)
when all other lights go out...
(Tavern wall, taken tonight in a small Wisconsin town)
A historian in the year 2225 wasting hours trying to track down fake sources and scholarship that were hallucinated in the short-lived AI fads of 2025.
December 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A historian in the year 2225 wasting hours trying to track down fake sources and scholarship that were hallucinated in the short-lived AI fads of 2025.
Iron Works Alt from Metropolitan in Chicago.
(Really anything from Metropolitan)
(Really anything from Metropolitan)
What's a beer you all miss? I'll start: Mad Fox Orange Whip
December 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Iron Works Alt from Metropolitan in Chicago.
(Really anything from Metropolitan)
(Really anything from Metropolitan)
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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idk guys, if you are like into weirdish history about Egypt (and the Middle East) and sometimes, but not always, food and drink, but I got you
History of Caramel in the Arab World
open.substack.com/pub/omardfod...
History of Caramel in the Arab World
open.substack.com/pub/omardfod...
History of Caramel in the Arab World
Why you can't be first in food
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
idk guys, if you are like into weirdish history about Egypt (and the Middle East) and sometimes, but not always, food and drink, but I got you
History of Caramel in the Arab World
open.substack.com/pub/omardfod...
History of Caramel in the Arab World
open.substack.com/pub/omardfod...
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I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
![Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kok4aqdr3qnsj6ktfkq76kqz/bafkreibv56orcjfhjc2czd5kkydlzapnuem3xkzbhna4fia27pyajprzvq@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
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When my grandmother was 9 years old, she and her family lived in Texas and they were extremely poor. She lived with her mother and stepfather and three sisters. My great-grandmother made all their clothes, and they scrimped on everything so that they had enough to eat.
December 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
When my grandmother was 9 years old, she and her family lived in Texas and they were extremely poor. She lived with her mother and stepfather and three sisters. My great-grandmother made all their clothes, and they scrimped on everything so that they had enough to eat.
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I need to get a PDF of this 1909 hearing & don't have access to ProQuest Congressional database. Can someone with access help me out? searchworks.stanford.edu/view/11001298
Interstate Race Gambling by Telegraph [electronic resource] : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Sixtieth Congress, second session, on Jan. 21, 1909 in SearchWorks catalog
Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more.
searchworks.stanford.edu
December 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I need to get a PDF of this 1909 hearing & don't have access to ProQuest Congressional database. Can someone with access help me out? searchworks.stanford.edu/view/11001298
Having taught at Purdue (as an grad student, not to overstate it), I'd see no choice but to respond to this mandate by teaching extensively on the massive negative effects and externalities of AI use in my field.
And I'd have a lot less time to teach, ya know, the actual content.
And I'd have a lot less time to teach, ya know, the actual content.
It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Having taught at Purdue (as an grad student, not to overstate it), I'd see no choice but to respond to this mandate by teaching extensively on the massive negative effects and externalities of AI use in my field.
And I'd have a lot less time to teach, ya know, the actual content.
And I'd have a lot less time to teach, ya know, the actual content.
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You can do this right now:
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
You can do this right now:
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
"Gastronationalism"? 🙄
Whitewashing history? Politicizing food and drink?
Pfft. What a joke.
*sips my Hulk Hogan Real American™️ beer*
Whitewashing history? Politicizing food and drink?
Pfft. What a joke.
*sips my Hulk Hogan Real American™️ beer*
We love @anahlcq.bsky.social because she brings the reality of modern France to our clichéd notions of Frenchness.
In her latest piece for Pellicle, Anaïs looks at the politicisation of French culture, French wine, and the French far right.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/12...
In her latest piece for Pellicle, Anaïs looks at the politicisation of French culture, French wine, and the French far right.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/12...
Tradition is a Lie — French Wine’s Place in France’s Far-Right Gastronationalism — Pellicle
The wine that French presidents choose to serve during official visits is far more than a drink. It’s a way of expressing their political beliefs, and their taste has long been scrutinised and documen...
www.pelliclemag.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"Gastronationalism"? 🙄
Whitewashing history? Politicizing food and drink?
Pfft. What a joke.
*sips my Hulk Hogan Real American™️ beer*
Whitewashing history? Politicizing food and drink?
Pfft. What a joke.
*sips my Hulk Hogan Real American™️ beer*
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
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In Evanston tonight, outside Chicago—
In the bitter cold, neighbors are gathered outside Lake Street Church for a vigil for ICE victims.
This is where @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social preaches—the pastor arrested on camera by ISP at Broadview.
Baby Jesus in zip ties. Mother Mary in a respirator.
In the bitter cold, neighbors are gathered outside Lake Street Church for a vigil for ICE victims.
This is where @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social preaches—the pastor arrested on camera by ISP at Broadview.
Baby Jesus in zip ties. Mother Mary in a respirator.
December 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
In Evanston tonight, outside Chicago—
In the bitter cold, neighbors are gathered outside Lake Street Church for a vigil for ICE victims.
This is where @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social preaches—the pastor arrested on camera by ISP at Broadview.
Baby Jesus in zip ties. Mother Mary in a respirator.
In the bitter cold, neighbors are gathered outside Lake Street Church for a vigil for ICE victims.
This is where @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social preaches—the pastor arrested on camera by ISP at Broadview.
Baby Jesus in zip ties. Mother Mary in a respirator.
No one ever showed them Reefer Madness?
Dolphins play with pufferfish primarily to experience a mild, trance-like high from the fish's potent neurotoxin (tetrodotoxin), which they release when threatened; they gently pass the pufferfish around, chewing it carefully to induce small, intoxicating doses ...😎💙😎
December 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
No one ever showed them Reefer Madness?