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Brew Day!… “Icon”

December 29, 2019December 29, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

On Imperial Russian Stouts, art, truth and mystery.

Last Orders

April 8, 2019April 8, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

Bottle shops liquidating? A microbrewery in a football stadium? The cycle has peaked and the bell is ringing.

The Facticity of the Barrel

March 19, 2019March 26, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

If the en soi of a Bourbon barrel constrains the pour soi of the beer that is geworfen into it, the culture of a wild beer is the nothingness—the incipient, the contingent—that creates a space for the transcendence of foeder-facticity.

A Multitude of Sins

February 17, 2019March 16, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

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

World Famous in Denmark

July 4, 2018May 13, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / 3 Comments

Despite its name, most businesses in the craft beer industry are differentiated less by their products or manufacturing processes and more by their brand identities.

On Bond Yields and Brewery Deals

February 27, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 4 Comments

Fuller's acquisition of Dark Star last week led to another round of speculation about beer-industry acquisitions to come. But do current trends in bond yields suggest that consolidation may already have peaked?

Culture, Craft and Touring for Tradition

September 23, 2017May 13, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

Wondering why Munich isn’t awash with Mango-Juice Double IPA, Espresso Coffee and Vanilla Stout, or Arugula Brett-Spiked Saison, is like complaining that the Italian Alps don’t look like the Cotswolds, or that the Vietnamese don’t eat roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.

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