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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 1d

A gem well within:

"Is/was 'passion' an 'important asset' or a form of those 'blinders'? Whether in business or in writing. Maybe both. What ever happened to well-earned hard-bitten steely-eyed objectivity?"

A lot of words to get there, but worth your time

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The Beery News Notes For The Threat Of Frost And The Yanks And Jays In What Might Just Be A Post-Passion World – A Good Beer Blog

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Alan McLeod / A Good Beer Blog @agoodbeerblog.bsky.social · 8d

Another great Sox v Yanks baseball game last evening - but with another outcome compared to game #1. It’s all getting settled tonight. Does anything else matter? Beer gossip? Pfft. Stats and graphs? Not so much. Legal news about the brewing trade? How can it compare? Well, check it out and see…

Your Totally Excited And Entirely Distracted Beery News Notes For Wildcard Week – A Good Beer Blog

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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 9d

Take a deep breath.

Didn't work, still true.

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End of an era as Upright Brewing announces closure — New School Beer + Cider

Upright Brewing will close at the end of 2025 and shut down their brewery and homebase in NE Portland if no new buyer is found. The Upright Beer Station in N. Portland will remain open as a taphouse ...

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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 13d

GOOD MORNING! Pubs are struggling. The 2026 Good Beer Guide is "a triumph". Craft beer is still growing in India. Gen Z really isn't drinking. BrewDog beers have lost their edge. Nobody really knows which is the oldest pub in London. New Boddies is "drinkable". 🍺🍻

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News, nuggets and longreads 27 September 2025: A New New Me

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got struggling pubs, Gen Z abstinence and Indian craft beer.

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Alan McLeod / A Good Beer Blog @agoodbeerblog.bsky.social · 15d

Plenty of hot news in the weekly update. Scorching might actually be the word. Not steaming, however. Too close to steamy. Nope. Look elsewhere for that. Definitely.

The Very First And Initial And Even Inaugural Beery News Notes For Autumn 2025 – A Good Beer Blog

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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 17d

Do not wait. Aspen are hitting peak Aspen along the Peak to Peak Biway.

Aspen showing off along the Peak to Peak Biway north of Nederland

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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 18d

Hop Queries 9.05 has been dispatched. If you are a subscriber and you don't see it, check you spam folder. It ran a little long. If you aren't a subscriber, find it archived here:

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9.05: Transitions, new products, and plenty of fresh hops - HOP QUERIES

* John I. Haas & Hop Head Farms * Advanced forms and functions * Fresh hops: The science * Fresh hops: The controversy (?) * Hop profile: Over/underrated Welcome to Vol. 9, No. 5. In the introduction ...

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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 19d

At my local beer store, they break apart 4-packs and 6-packs to create mixed packs, which is terrific because there are scores of Colorado (and other US) festbiers and marzens to choose from. Little German beyond the usual suspects.

Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 19d

BLOG POST: How Oktoberfest is becoming a thing in Britain – and is no longer just about silly plastic hats and bunting. 🍻🍺

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Oktoberfest fills a gap the UK didn’t know it had

Yesterday afternoon, the trumpet player from a surf-punk band grabbed the mic to thank the crowd for coming to an Oktoberfest event “which is happening in September, for some reason”.

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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 20d

GOOD MORNING! This week's round up has zombie brands, dead pubs, cask beer in Italy, and more. 🍺🍻

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News, nuggets and longreads 20 September 2025: La Belle et la Bête

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got honey beer, gale beer, and estate pubs.

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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 22d

Chimps, ethanol & figs.

You buried the lead, Alan, but I do appreciate the research.

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The Thursday Beery News Notes For The End Of Summer 2025 – A Good Beer Blog

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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 27d

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular weekly round up of good writing about beer and pubs, with lots of beer history, as well as commentary on clickbait trends, and the week's big news story. 🍺🍻

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News, nuggets and longreads 13 September 2025: Dead Reckoning

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got GBBF, Mexico, malt, and more.

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Alan McLeod / A Good Beer Blog @agoodbeerblog.bsky.social · 29d

You show up for the weekly beer news but did you know about True Black Brandywine? Hmm… just as I expected. Time for a little “TNT!” - and the rest of “The Delightful Yet Pensively Penultimate Beery News Notes On A Summer’s Thursday For 2025”:

The Delightful Yet Pensively Penultimate Beery News Notes On A Summer’s Thursday For 2025 – A Good Beer Blog

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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · Sep 9

Currently drinking: Future Primitive Nazi Punks Fuck Off!

Would drink again

And again.

And again.

Future Primitive Nazi Punks Fuck Off! at Alki Beach in West Seattle.

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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · Sep 7

That's the boil.

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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · Sep 7

Shredding Citra.

Chris Baum (Varietal Beer) and Kevin Watson (Future Primitive) shredding fresh Citra before it heads to the kettle. A little lupulin gets left behind.

Chris Baum fills buckets with fresh Citra. Kevin Watson loads them into a (makeshift) shredder.

Kevin Watson (Future Primitive) and freshly shredded Citra at Varietal Beer Co. in Sunnyside, Wash.

It’s work done, a shredder is covered in hop dust.

Fresh Citra in the kettle at Varietal Beer.

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Alan McLeod / A Good Beer Blog @agoodbeerblog.bsky.social · Sep 4

Plenty of news this week, plenty of challenges facing the brewing trade but also plenty… well some… fine, a few rays of sunshine… maybe… well, whatever they are here they are!

Now That I Have My Back To School Corduroys Here’s The Thursday Beery News Notes – A Good Beer Blog

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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · Sep 3

When @stanhieronymus.bsky.social tells you to go to a brewery and try the Kölsch, you must obey. So here I am at Fritz Family Brewing in Niwot, Colorado.

A pint of Kolsch on the bar at Fritz family brewers

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social · Sep 2

Some exciting new research is happening as I write this, and will examine why fresh hops taste different than dried ones. Four breweries are participating, and Oregon State University will be analyzing them. Here are the details.

Drinking Beer For Science — Beervana

Some exciting new research is happening as I write this, and will examine why fresh hops taste different than dried ones. Four breweries are participating, and Oregon State University will be analyzin...

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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · Sep 2

Spoiler alert:

"Pubs are about humans, organic connections, and personality.

"AI is… not that."

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When pub signs go big and go viral

As social media erodes around us, perhaps physical advertising could help pubs get found – and convey what makes them unique.

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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · Sep 1

The often-mentioned first "modern Helles" by Spaten was a weird beer. Original gravity 11.7°P, just 2.69% ABW (about 3.4% ABV), and a real attenuation of just 45.7%. And it was not super popular, either: from 1895 until WW1, it accounted for only about 10% of Spaten's beer sales.

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A list of beer analyses of Munich beers, with Bock and Salvator at original gravities between 18.1 and 19.9°P, Märzenbier at 16.1°P, Spatenbräutafelbier at 27.4°P, Sommerbier of various breweries at 14.4-14.8°P, Winterbier at 13.7-14.1°P, and finally Helles Spatenbräu with an ABW of 2.69%, residual extract of 6.5%, and OG of 11.7°P, and a real attenuation of 45.7%.

Source: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb11839141?page=1122,1123&q=%28%22helles+spatenbr%C3%A4u%22%7E3%29

A graph from the book "Münchner Brauindustrie 1871-1945" by Christian Schäder showing the percentages of Sommerbier, Winterbier and Helles Bier of Spaten's total beer sales between 1881 and 1914.

Sommerbier climbs from over 60 to over 80% in 1890 and then slowly drops to roughly 50% until a steeper drop from 1907 until 1909 to roughly 30%, and remains at that level.

Winterbier is the inverse: starting from 40% and dropping to about 20% in 1890, it slowly goes up to 40% in 1907, then up to more than 50% by 1909, then going to about 60% by 1914.

The graph for Helles Bier only starts in 1904 and never seems to go over 10%.

The numbers are just rough estimations because the graph does not give precise indicators about the Y axis values further right in the graph.

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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · Aug 30

GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with quite a bit of in-the-weeds geeky stuff about science, scoring and brewery financing. 🍺🍻

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News, nuggets and longreads 30 August 2025: Married to the Mob

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Suffolk pubs, Scottish lager and American steel.

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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · Aug 30

We've lost another carrier of the brewing tradition: Svein Rivenes from Voss died yesterday, at the age of 85. He's best known for being the owner of kveik #2. Martin Thibault and I had his vossaøl back in 2014 and were absolutely blown away. It was really fantastic.

An old man, looking worried, in his brewhouse, next to a large steel cauldron hanging from steel chains.

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Ed Wray @thebeerfather.bsky.social · Aug 29

Some thoughts on research into beer by non-brewing scientists: edsbeer.blogspot.com/2025/08/im-f...

I'm forever blowing bubbles

A recent study on beer foam introduced a lot of people to a strange type of science: brewing research by non-brewers. I first came across ...

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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · Aug 28

Way too many words to qualify as a vacation post.

Alan McLeod / A Good Beer Blog @agoodbeerblog.bsky.social · Aug 28

Happy last Thursday of August, the last before Labour Day, before school starts, before a whole bunch of new things happen. Sweater weather coming. It's now suppose to rain from early afternoon to tomorrow morning, the first long rain in almost two months. Better have a nap. Bet I will.

The “But… He’s Just Mailing It In From Vacation!!!” Edition Of The Thursday Beery News Notes – A Good Beer Blog

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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Leaving me feel baited and switched in my continuing quest for sour IPA." We've all been there, right?

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · Aug 25

They've fairly been rattling through the beer styles at Open Gate Brewery of late, and inventing a few of their own. Here's what I've found: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/08/indu...

Guinness Open Gate Brewery Pink Gin Ale.

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