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The Wages of Sin

February 17, 2019February 18, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

London’s Beavertown Brewery celebrated its seventh birthday with seven collaboration beers. Here’s what I thought about them.

A FSTA Buck

January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

Asahi’s acquisition of London’s iconic Fuller’s brewing business had a shocked beer world searching for explanations last Friday. But the explanation is simple: this is a once-in-a-generation offer that Fuller’s board would have been negligent to turn down.

Economy of Means

January 19, 2019January 20, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

Craft has an economics, and therefore it has an ethics, and those ethics are grounded in the economy of means. So what to make of a craft beer that feels like a triumph of rigmarole over substance?

Gratitude, Alienation and Taprooms

January 2, 2019January 5, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

The brewery taproom is one of the temples in which we gather to say a secular grace, in a ritual designed to alienate ourselves from our true sense of alienation.

Sais Who? (Part Two)

November 19, 2018November 20, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

A Saison controversy reminds us that there is a difference between oral history and oral tradition, that there is power in both induction and deduction, and that absence of evidence is not always evidence of absence.

Collaboration x Cannibalisation

November 14, 2018December 31, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

The collaboration beer is a novel solution for marketing and distribution at scale―a challenge that used to necessitate ruthless consolidation.

Brew Day!… “My Cherry Amour”

October 29, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

My first attempt at a fruit beer had me grappling with a mathematical formula and a lot of questions.

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