Like every year we asked our friends about their last year and prodded them for some foresight into the next year. Considering how varied this „beer thing“ is, it’s no surprise the answers were equally varied. However, looking through the answers, it becomes crystal clear that one topic moved our friends, it itself being rather murky though. So, before we head any deeper into 2018, let’s quickly have a look back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What a year! And what a time to be a beer lover. But when you take online meme aggregators as a barometer for the people’s mood (and who doesn’t), people are happy 2017 is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As grisly as 2017 might have been, there were also reasons to be happy. Switzerland still being in a nascent state, many were pleased about the growth of breweries, the growth in numbers of breweries as well as bars and stores \u2013 or as Kouros of La N\u00e9buleuse, a brewery that will do a huge expansion in 2018, writes „To see that so many breweries are expanding in Switzerland is a great sign that the craft beer industry is still growing its momentum!“ Van of Gigantic from Portland, where the „scene“ is in a completely different stage, puts all this growth into perspective, however: „Having lived through the first brewery gold rush of the 90’s, I wonder how long this will all last?“ In a chicken or egg scenario, growth either begat „the normalization of modern beer“, as Stu of Yeastie Boys contently calls it, or the normalization leads to growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cans also made people happy, like James of Braukollektiv, Alexander of Nine Brothers and our fellow Wortspieler and brewer at aabachbier Chris. Tom of Brew By Numbers tells how they put their Double Dry Hopped (DDH) pale ale into 500ml cans and it sold out in two days. Thus he concludes: „Have to buy a canning line now!!“<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, our panel agrees that Good Beer Hunting is a website worthy to read, Extravaganza and Wortspiele are cool festivals to attend, maybe due to a bit of a UK-tint in our panel (but none the less deserving), Burning Sky is one of the panel’s favorite breweries and Swiss people are excited about the sour beer brewery \u00c0 Tue-T\u00eate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s no other topic that split our panel as much as hazy beer or NEIPA, it getting as much praise as complaints. This whole discussion is taking over a good chunk of the dialogue, so much so that Sam of Beavertown finds the whole „haze\/no haze blah“ rather annoying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Darron of Siren was irritated by „the sudden swing from this isn’t clear enough to this isn’t hazy enough to taste good“, which is mirrored in Van of Gigantic criticizing the equating of haziness with quality: „There is more than one way to make a beer delicious.“ Actually, Stuart of Magic Rock even specifically bemoans all the off-flavors in NEIPA, while Roger, first Swiss beer sommelier champion, thinks that the Mikkeller Beer Club has reached peak haze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the other side are many that love NEIPA \u2013 including Mike of Lervig (and we ourselves love his „Tasty Juice“). He, however, mentions a development that takes the whole „drink fresh“ hype to an extreme, thus he’s annoyed by „bars who won’t sell an IPA if its 3 weeks old and they know there is a fresher one and want to return the 3 week old IPA for it“. Praise for haze you find both in general, like by Bierversuche’s own Jan or Tobias of Hopfenshop, but also specifically in combination with a beer, like when Chris of WhiteFrontier praises Monkish Foggy Window, Fabio of Broken City mentioning Sixpoint Smoothie IPA or Andy of Partizan elevating BBNo’s DIPA above all others, while showing love for Cloudwater and Trillium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, people apart from Roger were really pissed off about the Swiss Beer Awards, Switzerland bid farwell to craft beer pioneer Erzbiershof, we think there was not enough hate expressed for boss-pours, we here at Bierversuche both love and hate Session beers and everybody seems to love sour beers. Maybe a bit cheekily, Katie of WhiteFrontier declares koelships to be an annoying hype, saying: „Everyone and their dog has one.“<\/p>\n\n\n\n
„It’s beer. We’re not turning lead into gold“ says Van. True, unless your trade is beer? At the same time, when you’re working in beer, your thinking is focused on more than just the liquid result, but also all the intricate means it takes to get there. You can find a lot of woes of brewers in the postings, may it be paperwork (Fabio of Broken City), hop contracts (James of Braukollektiv) or how hard it is to place beer in bars and restaurants (Fabricio of Totally Beer). On top of that people dread the current political and thus economic uncertainty of Brexit (Tom of BBNo) and Trump (Raphael of Trois Dames). Maybe a bit more concrete, our panel also dreads scooping fruit out of our foeders (Troy and Danny of Crooked Stave), as well as sandwiches with rogue pickles (David of BFM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But let’s not end this post with such dark thoughts. Instead, and here Raf of Bokkereyder is probably speaking for all of us when he answers the question what he’s looking forward to in 2018 with the simple while seemingly thorough: Beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– all Cycle imperial stouts
– J Wakefield Brewing 6ix Days In Dade and Voodoo Woman
– Buxton\/Omnipollo Original Lemon Meringue Ice Cream Pie
– Finback Whale Farm
– Northern Monk NIPAs<\/p>\n
– Cycle Brewing
– J Wakefield Brewing
– Northern Monk
– WhiteFrontier<\/p>\n
– Beavertown Extravaganza
– Northern Monk Brewery
– White Frontier Brewery<\/p>\n
Good Beer Hunting<\/p>\n
– increased availability of good New England IPAs in Switzerland
– nine brothers taptake over at au Trappiste
– Wortspiele V4 with the Berner Supercollabo
– Zapf Craftbeerfestival<\/p>\n
– quality of some beers which are sold
– line ups at some „Craft“ beer festivals
– end of Erzbierschof R.I.P.<\/p>\n
Swiss bureaucracy<\/p>\n
J Wakefield Brewing 6ix Days in Dade<\/p>\n
– Finally starting to barrel ageing and lactic acid bacteria isolation
– Zapf v2
– collabo brews<\/p>\n
– flooding of the swiss beer market with under average products
– poor availability of good lambics (thanks US friends)<\/p>\n
– more milkshake beers
– more craft beers in good restaurants<\/p>\n
au Trappiste and Beavertown Extravaganza<\/p>\n
general hate against lager beer<\/p>\n
– New England IPAs and kettle sours
– Craft cans<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Galaxy Cutting Tiles by Trillium Brewing Company<\/p>\n
– Northern Mon
– Finback
– Fuerst Wiacek
– Wylam
– Verdant
– Grimm
– Trillium
– The Veil
– Mahr’s Br\u00e4u
– J Wakefield<\/p>\n
– Bierkeller au Trappiste
– Mother Kellys
– Arrogant Sour Festival<\/p>\n
nichts Neues<\/p>\n
Wortspiele #4 war ein voller Erfolg und die Akzeptanz auch von „Nicht-Beer-Nerds“ steigert sich zusehends.<\/p>\n
Dass die Biervielfalt in vielen Schweizer Restaurants und Bars noch immer so schlecht ist, wie vor einigen Jahren, bzw. die grossen Monopolisten weiterhin marktbeherrschend in den Gasth\u00e4usern sind.<\/p>\n
Dass aufgrund der vielen Taps einige Bierbars und deren Mitarbeiter nicht mehr in der Lage sind, die Biere nach Namen zu erkennen, sondern sich nur noch mit Zahlen orientieren k\u00f6nnen.<\/p>\n
an alle Schweizer Kleinbrauereien, die sich nicht an den Swiss Beer Award 2017 verkauft haben!<\/p>\n
Wieder viele Biere probieren und spannende Leute kennen lernen<\/p>\n
Trump und Kim sind noch immer da…<\/p>\n
Gesundheit und Zufriedenheit<\/p>\n
– MBCC
– Arrogant Sour Festival<\/p>\n
– Barrel Aged Triple Distilled irgendwas \u00dcbertreibungen in allen Arten von Bierstilen
– Dill!<\/p>\n
Hoppy beers in fancy cans<\/p>\n
Monkish Foggy Window, great haze<\/p>\n
\u00c0 tue-t\u00eate, incredible little Swiss sour program, one to watch.<\/p>\n
Had great time hunting Natural Wine in Italy this Autumn<\/p>\n
Beer Advocate and the New Brewer gets continual reading from my part<\/p>\n
Getting out on the skis on proper powder snow in December<\/p>\n
How many more runs could I get in on the slopes before work starts noticing?<\/p>\n
Paperwork<\/p>\n
The drinkers of the finest beers<\/p>\n
Getting other brewers into our place to brew beers, share stories and talk shop<\/p>\n
I dunno, possibly breaking a leg or something, I don’t have time for that.<\/p>\n
More cold-chain transport for beers in Switzerland. The summer here is killing a lot of the beers.<\/p>\n
Thinking I’ll probably hit up Copenhagen for the beer celebration again in May<\/p>\n
Anchovies, they’re not as disgusting as the movies make it out to be.<\/p>\n
Centrifuge due for commissioning this month at the brewery<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– Session IPA: A style I used to hate with passion. But after having had several good ones in Canada, I’m now a fan. Then again, maybe I just really like flavorful and bitter Pale Ales, which they basically were.
– I’ve been lucky enough to have had many great beers this year, but two that stand out were Riot’s Breakfast of Champions and White Frontier’s Citra Pale Ale served at Solothurner Biertage. And I still prefer Focal Banger to Heady Topper.<\/p>\n
Along with my old favorites (Crooked Stave, BBNo, Almanac etc.), I was very happy to drink any beer by Four Winds or Magic Rock or Burning Sky or Belching Beaver or \u2026<\/p>\n
– Vancouver and Vancouver Island, Canada
– Beermoth in Manchester, UK
– Uiltje Bar in Haarlem, NL
– Foeders in Amsterdam, NL<\/p>\n
Good Beer Hunting, particularly the „Critical Drinking“ posts<\/p>\n
– Seeing how normal craft beer can be in a community, e.g. in Vancouver. This to me seems to be the goal and that is why I am doing what I’m doing.
– Realizing how much I learnt from the content in our interviews and realizing how much I learnt on the trip to the UK with Kouros of La N\u00e9buleuse \u2013 hearing pro-brewers talking about their reality always increases my respect for the people in this industry.
– Wortspiele 3 and 4
– Drinking a full pour of a great beer, like drinking Lervig’s Tasty Juice from the tap in 5dl glasses
– Drinking Arthur on tap in Haarlem
– Dill!<\/p>\n
– How easy it was to go cold-turkey on Untappd but then how hard it was to stop thinking about going back \u2013 and noticing that I drink beer more consciously if I rate them later
– Where do I find a good beer in my hometown, now that Erzbierschof is no more? Erzbierschof was such a huge influence on the craft beer scene in Switzerland, it was sad to see it go. R.I.P.<\/p>\n
– The online posting of articles previously published in print magazines \u2013 with so little information being time sensitive, why shouldn’t I just wait for the articles to be posted online?
– How many fruit beers are basically Radlers
– How difficult it is to find good DJ sets online
– How many followers you get when you take a photo of a beer in combination with a cleavage
– Not finding a Rogue Yellow Snow IPA and a Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale
– Online hissy fits by brewers, drinkers, presidents<\/p>\n
– La N\u00e9buleuse and Volta Br\u00e4u for doing Wortspiele with us \u2013 a big thank you especially to Kouros and Gabriele
– Everybody that helps to „normalize“ craft beer and thus helping it penetrating the public’s consciousness<\/p>\n
– Organizing an international Wortspiele and finding out how this idea is received in other locals
– Drinking more amazing Swiss beer. The quality is making progress, but rather much is not yet up to snuff \u2013 however, I don’t know any place in the world where all beers are up to snuff
– Drinking more full pours
– Drinking more Pale Ales
– After a collabo-less 2017, looking forward to get that ball rolling again
– La N\u00e9buleuse expansion and special plans for the old kit<\/p>\n
– Beers so murky they will absorb light
– My twitter feed<\/p>\n
– More beer education
– A re-brew of the „Herr Schneider,…“ beer. Not to toot our own horn, but kinda tooting our own horn, our collabo with Jan (El Caballero) was one tasty dryhopped lager
– A beer bar in my hometown (or a bar with a decent beer list)<\/p>\n
– London
– The sun
– Work<\/p>\n
– Boss pours. And breweries posting images of boss pours. You hate your own beer that much?
– Haze for haze-sake<\/p>\n
– Craft beer becoming more „normal“ and reaching people beyond beer nerds
– Cans<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Cycle Brewery Anniversary beers: fantastic depth of balanced flavours<\/p>\n
Du De Ciel: first time of trying their stuff in Norway – sublime<\/p>\n
Alvarado Street Brewery in Monterey: stumbled across it on holiday, great beer, great people and a buzzing atmosphere<\/p>\n
Still trying to get through the book on Brewing Water<\/p>\n
We brewed a sour beer with coffee and people loved it<\/p>\n
Social Media: where has the idea of manners and respect gone?<\/p>\n
The sudden swing from this isnt clear enough to this isnt hazy enough to taste good<\/p>\n
Enjoying our beer in our tap room, and our upcoming 5th Anniversary<\/p>\n
Nothing, I have a positive outlook for 2018<\/p>\n
A brewhouse that works as it says on the tin<\/p>\n
– The Siren Tap Yard
– Beavertown Expo<\/p>\n
Hype is not necessarily in our control: Breweries like to talk about what they are doing, it’s what happens after that when it becomes hype; this isn’t something we can control. We want people to be as excited as we are about what we are doing, we cant get upset when they become so, or become more excited about another persons development<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
In no particular order:
– Liefste (Tommie Sjef)
– Yellow Rose (Lone Pint Brewery)
– Epicurious (Creature Comforts)
– The Lily (De Garde)
– Preach (Blackwell)<\/p>\n
Went on a 4 week road trip this summer from Atlanta, GA to Austin, TX. So many breweries but the highlights for me were:
– Creature Comforts
– The Courtyard Brewery
– Jester King (finally!)<\/p>\n
The Avenue Pub in New Orleans (24-7-365)<\/p>\n
– Oh Beautiful Beer!
– The Sour Hour
– MTF<\/p>\n
Arrogant Sour Festival (Reggio Emilia, IT)
– Cantillon, Lost Abbey, Bokkereyder, De Garde, Jester King, The Ale Apotecary
– Eating Parma in Parma
– Culatello!
Craft Beer Festival Zurich
– These guys know how to throw (and organize) one hell of a party!
– Also shotgunning ASBC from a dinosaur
– Creature Comforts 3rd Anniversary Party
-Tea-Lo-Green…<\/p>\n
– Why Switzerland doesn’t have more festivals like the ones above?<\/p>\n
Wicked Weed…<\/p>\n
It puts the cucumber on its skin or it gets the gose again! (7venth Sun, FL)<\/p>\n
– The opening of BFM 2.0
– More space = more barrels<\/p>\n
Sandwiches with rogue pickles<\/p>\n
A koelschip<\/p>\n
– CBFZH
– Arrogant Sour Festival
– Brassin Public<\/p>\n
Breweries (usually) are not responsible for hype. Don’t like it, don’t support it.<\/p>\n
– Increasing importance on QA\/QC
– Breweries showing transparency when these standards are not met<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Sixpoint Smoothie<\/p>\n
Pariah Brewing Co.<\/p>\n
Scottish Highlands<\/p>\n
BYO<\/p>\n
Pouring the first Broken City Brewing Co. beers at festivals and at our taproom<\/p>\n
why there’s so much reggaeton on the radio?<\/p>\n
Fake craft beers, fake news<\/p>\n
Orval<\/p>\n
More Broken City Brewing beers out there, work on developing new exciting recipes<\/p>\n
Delays, paperwork…<\/p>\n
– a canning line
– drumming like crazy with my electro surf band Fenomenomenom<\/p>\n
– Mikkeller Copenhagen
– PUNKAGM2018
– Arrogant Sour Festival
– punk rock shows<\/p>\n
I can’t think about anything annoying right now. Everything is so exciting, yeeeaaahhh<\/p>\n
Vegan cheese tasted good in 2017!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Evil Cat (L’apaise)<\/p>\n
Pilgrim<\/p>\n
– La mise en biere (bar)
– Au coin mousse<\/p>\n
Microbiere.ch<\/p>\n
More beer events in Suisse Romande.<\/p>\n
Some breweries have some product with quality problems.<\/p>\n
Other breweries are not willing to share and help each other.<\/p>\n
Pilgrim<\/p>\n
World Cup – great opportunity. We have a new brewery, so we are very exciting!<\/p>\n
It is still very hard to place craft beer in local bars and restaurants<\/p>\n
More people find out about our products!<\/p>\n
– Solothurn Biertage
– Geneva Beer Festival
– Festibiere
– Drinks of the world (Geneva)<\/p>\n
The IPA time is already gone….<\/p>\n
Barrel aged beers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Exhibit \u2019A\u2019 – Goody Two Shoes<\/p>\n
Ca\u00b4 del Brado, Bologna, Italy.<\/p>\n
– Artisan Pub, Rome, Italy
– Sk\u00fali Craftbar, Reykjavik, Iceland
– Biercaf\u00e9 Au Trappiste, Bern, Switzerland
– Beer Geek Madness festival, Wroclaw, Poland.<\/p>\n
\u00d6lp\u00f6len – a swedish beer podcast.<\/p>\n
I spent almost my entire summer vacation with my family.<\/p>\n
Take Craft Back vs. AB Inbev<\/p>\n
I turned 40 instead of 39.<\/p>\n
Chris Betts, Transient Artisan Ales<\/p>\n
The release of the first beers in our new barrel program VILD.<\/p>\n
That we have to expand even more.<\/p>\n
Easier rules to buy alcohol in Sweden and a possibility to sell beers that are above 3.5%ABV at the breweries<\/p>\n
Wakefest, Miami<\/p>\n
NEIPA<\/p>\n
– Female brewers
– Sour beers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– Bomb\u00f3n Naranja by Tyris in Valencia, Spain: In-effing-credible. Vanilla strongly on the nose bourbon and chocolate following through.
– Of the Sea by The Wild Beer Co: Like drinking a seafood platter with the perfect blend of fresh seafood and bright beer, salt tang and seaweed.
– Frank and Lucy \u2013 Part 2 by 523: A bright tropical punchbowl.
– Julie Triple Mango Cr\u00e9me Br\u00fbl\u00e9e Lassi by Ominpollo (of course): I have no idea where to start describing this beer, but then I don’t need to, everything is in the name!
– HORAL’s Oude Geuze Mega Blend 2015 by Brouwerij Boon: Deliciously complex!<\/p>\n
Any craft brewery from Spain. I’ve had so many great beers from there and can’t wait to go back.<\/p>\n
Wortspiele 4 at Volta Brau \u2013 great beer, great people and such a memorable event, for more reasons than one!<\/p>\n
Really getting into dry hopping and getting some great results.<\/p>\n
It’s time to get a grain mill.<\/p>\n
My own brewhouse inefficiency (see above).<\/p>\n
523 for their „Deconstruct Hefeweizen“ experience at Worspiele 4.<\/p>\n
Traveling to Australia, Eastern Europe and Philadelphia and of course trying the local brews.<\/p>\n
Why worry, just grab a beer.<\/p>\n
An impeachment party.<\/p>\n
Br\u00fcw: best craft beer bar in St Gallen.<\/p>\n
„Once a bad brewery always a bad brewery.“ A lot of Swiss breweries, big and small, are embracing the craft and producing some excellent beer, so keep an open mind and judge a beer on its own merits.<\/p>\n
Small „traditional“ breweries branching out and trying new things.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– The Kernel-Table Beer!
– Rare Barrel-Tiger Lilly
– Trillium Fort Point Pale Ale
– L\u00f6wenbrauerei Elzach Kr\u00e4useln Pils
– White Frontier Idaho 7 IPA<\/p>\n
– Trillium
– Lord Hobo
– WhiteFrontier
– Bokkereyder<\/p>\n
Copenhagen<\/p>\n
Cans in Europe!<\/p>\n
Cans in Europe?<\/p>\n
Cans in Europe!?<\/p>\n
Drinking the next beer that unknowingly will blow my mind.<\/p>\n
Hop contracts<\/p>\n
Better German IPAs<\/p>\n
– Mikkeller Beer Celebration
– Cantillon Quintessence
– the brewery<\/p>\n
Craft Beer<\/p>\n
– Even more utilization of the different hop oils, hop hash
– the selection of more and singular wild yeast strains<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Alle New-England-Style Ales mit geilen Fruchtnoten tropischer und anderer Fr\u00fcchte<\/p>\n
– Trillium
– White Frontier
– Cloudwater<\/p>\n
The Ale House, Z\u00fcrich<\/p>\n
Schweizer Craft-Brauereien, die wirklich ein geiles Niveau erreicht haben, dazu z\u00e4hle ich insbesondere White Frontier und La Nebuleuse<\/p>\n
Boss-pour – WTF?<\/p>\n
All diese Session IPAs sind m.E. eine Verschwendung von gutem Hopfen – nothing good comes from under 5% ABV<\/p>\n
die n\u00e4chsten Wortspiele-Beerfestivals<\/p>\n
– Immer mehr Craft-Brauereien, die von ABInBev und Co. \u00fcbernommen werden.
– Der Versuch der grossen, Hopfen- und Bierdistribution zu kontrollieren und Zug\u00e4nge f\u00fcr kleine einzuschr\u00e4nken.<\/p>\n
40 Taps in Basel testen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– bi\u00e8re de table
– Grotzinski<\/p>\n
Dunham, Qu\u00e9bec<\/p>\n
Bruxelles, tout de m\u00eame in\u00e9vitable<\/p>\n
Playboy<\/p>\n
le nombre de nouvelles brasseries cr\u00e9es en Suisse<\/p>\n
le nombre de nouvelles brasseries cr\u00e9es en Suisse<\/p>\n
les prix trop bas pratiqu\u00e9s par certaines brasseries. Attention, il faut \u00eatre capable de s’autofinancer \u00e0 long terme…<\/p>\n
bi\u00e8re valaisanne „craft bier“, summum de l’arnaque<\/p>\n
d\u00e9velopper de nouvelles lignes de bi\u00e8res sur deux sites de production<\/p>\n
Une saturation provisoire du march\u00e9 des bi\u00e8res craft en Suisse et dans le monde<\/p>\n
la fermeture de la brasserie Heineken et un printemps pr\u00e9coce et chaud<\/p>\n
in troubles sometimes \/ at work also<\/p>\n
Non l’IPA n’est pas une hype, c’est une Religion<\/p>\n
beaucoup de nouveaux amateurs de bi\u00e8res<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– Water Ballon Fighters by Monkish
– Betterave by A Tue-T\u00eate
– Vacation Coconut IPA by Resident Brewing
– WIESO IMMER MIR by 523<\/p>\n
– Monkish Brewing, USA
– Cellarmaker, USA
– A Tue-T\u00eate, CH<\/p>\n
The Local Eatery & Drinking Hole San Diego: Un super brewpub et tap room
Russian River Brewing Company<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.themadfermentationist.com\/ Une source incroyable de conseils et d’id\u00e9es<\/p>\n
Ouvrir un restaurant qui m’a donn\u00e9 la possibilit\u00e9 de faire d\u00e9couvrir l’univers de la bi\u00e8res \u00e0 mes clients. Nous avons install\u00e9 8 becs pressions et servons de plus en plus de bonnes bi\u00e8res craft Swiss made<\/p>\n
Ces personnes qui viennent au bar te demander une bi\u00e8re „normale“<\/p>\n
tellement de chose \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Yellow Belly Sundae by Buxton Brewery<\/p>\n
Encore plus d’exp\u00e9rimentation dans ma brasserie, brass\u00e9 des double IPA juicy de malade. Apr\u00e8s mes vacances au US j’ai d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 une addiction s\u00e9v\u00e8re aux houblons, si si c’est possible \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Avoir encore moins de temps pour brasser…<\/p>\n
Qu’on arr\u00eate de me demander des bi\u00e8res NORMALS ou “ Mais pourquoi vous avez mis \u00e7a dans une bi\u00e8re…“<\/p>\n
Le Restaurant Du Foyer \u00e0 Sierre, c’est maintenant ma 1\u00e8re maison, j’y passe plus de temps que dans mon lit<\/p>\n
Les collaborations entre brasseries, Plus on est de fous, plus on rit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– Raspberry Melba (White Frontier)
– Black Ale (chen van loon)
– Endo Rhubarb<\/p>\n
…gibt viele hervorragende CH Brauereien<\/p>\n
B\u00fclach Bier Festival<\/p>\n
– Plaato
– Beer Pairing von Caviezel<\/p>\n
Die Zunahme der Bierauswahl in der Gastronomie<\/p>\n
Swiss Bier Awards<\/p>\n
Swiss Bier Awards -> der Marketing-Fake f\u00fcr gewisse Grosskonzerne<\/p>\n
Nord Haus – Barfuss<\/p>\n
Das es den Bierkonsumenten mehr und mehr klar wird, dass die Grosskonzerne nur Bullshit produzieren und es als „Craftbier“ verkaufen. \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n
Der Klimawandel<\/p>\n
Wer weiss es schon… genug zeit f\u00fcr Flexibilit\u00e4t<\/p>\n
Das Verst\u00e4ndnis f\u00fcr handwerklich gebrautes Bier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– USA: Blueberry Cream Ale, Cheboygan Brewery
– Schweiz: Gold Miner von Sudwerk, ja ich weiss, nicht meine \u00fcbliche Bierrichtung aber ich trinke ab und an auch gerne mal ein weniger „extremes“ Bier<\/p>\n
– USA: Starving Artist Brewery, Ludington
– Schweiz: Brauer Bischoff<\/p>\n
Michigan ist mein Bier-Himmel<\/p>\n
Foobee<\/p>\n
– Unsere Teilnahme an den Wortspielen 4
– die Collab mit Starving Artist Brewery, der Schoggil\u00f6lli wurde einfach Hammer<\/p>\n
Das immer noch so viele Leute in Restaurants\/Bars einfach eine Stange bestellen, ohne sich darum zu k\u00fcmmern, was in der Stange drin ist<\/p>\n
Nichts<\/p>\n
New Holland Brewery, Triple Mash Drangons Milk<\/p>\n
Solothurner Biertage<\/p>\n
Nichts<\/p>\n
Das es verboten wird, exklusive Biervert\u00e4ge abzuschliessen<\/p>\n
Michigan..:-)<\/p>\n
Immer mehr weibliche Biertrinkerinnen und Frauen in der Brauszene<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– Burning Sky porter on cask
– Burning Sky Petite Saison
– Chubbles (fresh Veil version blew my mind, Cloudwater version aged much better)
– everything I had from DeGarde
– Kernel table beer (always a no-brainer!)
– Creature Comforts Tropicalia (from the source!)
– Harvey’s Imperial Extra Double Stout (the OG Imperial Stout, sampled right from the tank! did you know they condition it in steel for like 18 months?!)
– Mahrs Braeu Pils and Helles<\/p>\n
– Burning Sky
– Forest and Main
– Trve
– the Veil
– Cellarmaker
– Holy Mountain
– Beachwood Blending and Brewery<\/p>\n
– Where the Light Gets In (Stockport, UK)
– Edmund’s Oast (Charleston, SC)
– chef’s table at The Mercantile (Denver, CO)
– Taqueria Pistola y Corazon (Lisbon, Portugal)
– Pollen Bakery (Manchester, UK)
– Le Neptune (Geneva, CH)<\/p>\n
– Raisin (natural wine app)
– Cork Dork
– KEXP Music That Matters podcast (you guys should add podcasts to this category)
– pubtails (instagram) (you guys should add Instagram to this category too :))<\/p>\n
– lots of new beerfriends
– #drkatiesgreatamericanbeeradventure
– celebrating my birthday at Beercraft (TTO with the amazing beers AND people of Cellarmaker, Sante Adarius, The Rare Barrel, Trillium, Other Half, Tired Hands, Cloudwater)
– pouring beer at MBCC 2017
– geeking out at Carnivale Brettanomyces
– dancing with Yvan & Pierre at Beavertown Extravaganza
– IMBC 2017 (man, I love that fest)
– that Monday in December when we spent the whole day riding rides at Tivoli Gardens.<\/p>\n
– how to do a Cloudwater-style collab at Fuller’s
– Crooked Stave in cans
– is my hearing that bad or why can’t I understand English in England?<\/p>\n
diacetyl and shitty Amarillo<\/p>\n
I’m taking the liberty to change this category to „gold medal in the category of beer and human,“ which I will then award to
– Jonathan of Arizona Wilderness
– Averie of Jester King
– S\u00f8ren of Dry & Bitter.<\/p>\n
– brewing again
– seeing all my beer peeps at festivals and events
– being back in der Schweiz<\/p>\n
learning French (only because I know it’s going to be tricky)<\/p>\n
– Old-school American pale ales with bitterness to make a comeback
– And a chance to continue #drkatiesgreatamericanbeeradventure.<\/p>\n
– WhiteFrontier
– Beavertown Ex 2018 (they did an amazing job with their first run of it, can’t wait to see what they do with the next one!)<\/p>\n
Coolships. Everyone and their dog has one.<\/p>\n
Coolships. Excited and anxious to taste what starts emerging from wood all over the world in the next few years, including the batch I got to witness at Burning Sky this past autumn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Smoking Speck from Piggy Brewing (France)<\/p>\n
A Tue-T\u00eate from Switzerland<\/p>\n
Beermoth in Manchester<\/p>\n
Always Bierversuche!<\/p>\n
– To see that so many breweries are expanding in Switzerland is a great sign that the craft beer industry is still growing its momentum!
– On a personal note, I am extremely happy about the great adventures and wonderful collabs done this year, it really shows how friendly the community is and always ready to work together on exciting projects.<\/p>\n
The fact that the big groups are still not slowing down their pace of purchasing craft breweries, I am really wondering when it will hit switzerland’s community, if it hasn’t already!<\/p>\n
– Craft beer is still gaining momentum, hence it is also gaining so much hype that many people and business try to jump on the bandwagon while pretending to promote craft.
– The myriad of festivals organised in Switzerland this year, many of which almost exploited brewers for very interesting profits is an example of abuses of the craft hype.<\/p>\n
Ardnnon from Struise. Just because a 7-year barrel ageing is just ridiculously crazy haha. The beer is also very complex and interesting!<\/p>\n
We have so many projects pending so 2018 will be a great and exciting year. From our expansion to the creation of a brewing hub, 2018 will be a year of better control and quality of production, as well as a deep community-driven outlook.<\/p>\n
All these projects and challenges are always stressful, I hope that we can keep working hard and be proud of our achievements.<\/p>\n
Continued fun, always fun. This is what motivates me to get up in the morning.<\/p>\n
We will try to increase our presence in international festivals across Europe!<\/p>\n
The Swiss Beer Awards. The big guys trying to highjack the hype.<\/p>\n
Craft breweries coming together to organise themselves and the strengthen community<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Seit ich nicht mehr untappe, fehlt mir da etwas die \u00dcbersicht. Beste Erinnerungen habe ich aber an einen Abend mit Lervig Tasty Juice vom Zapf und Gl\u00e4ser in Pintgr\u00f6sse.<\/p>\n
– Modern Times
– J. Wakefield<\/p>\n
– Biercaf\u00e9 und Bierkeller Au Trappiste
– Mise en Biere
– Uiltje Bar. Sowieso: Haarlem ist grossartig!<\/p>\n
Beer-pairing; Aroma und Geschmack von Rolf Caviezel<\/p>\n
– Die beiden Wortspiele Events. Unterschiedlich aber beide grossartig
– BeaverEx!
– die Boston „Tea“ Party in Bern.<\/p>\n
– Schlangensteher f\u00fcr superhippe Brauereien an der BeaverEx, w\u00e4hrend daneben bei Brauern wie J. Wakefield, Modern Times, Side Project, Cellarmaker, Sante Adairius etc kaum Leute waren.
– Nicht verwundert, aber traurig gemacht hat mich die Schliessung von Erzbierschof.<\/p>\n
– \u00dcbernahmen. Insbesondere Wicked Weed und auch ratebeer.
– Bemerkenswert fand ich auch die Swiss Beer Awards: Dieser Anlass scheint seine Berechtigung darin zu haben, dass sich alle gegenseitig auf die Schulter klopfen d\u00fcrfen. Denn wie sonst soll ich mir erkl\u00e4ren, dass zB in der Kategorie „Hefeweizen“ 7 Gold- und 6 Silbermedaillen vergeben werden. Ich stell mir nun den verzweifelten Konsumenten vor dem Coop-Regal vor, geblendet von Gold- und Silber-verzierten Etiketten.<\/p>\n
Kouros und Gabriele plus deren Crew! Vielen Dank f\u00fcr euren Einsatz f\u00fcr Wortspiele!<\/p>\n
Mehr Session-Biere! Oder besser: mehr sessionable Biere! Es geht doch wenig \u00fcber ein Bier, das man getrost einen Abend lang aus Pintgl\u00e4ser trinken kann. Mehr Gem\u00fctlichkeit, weniger Einchecken!<\/p>\n
Mehr Dill!<\/p>\n
Weniger Dill und tolle Wortspiele.<\/p>\n
Ich hoffe auf BeaverEx, Arrogant Sour und Wortspiele.<\/p>\n
Es nervt mich nicht wirklich, aber f\u00fcr mich pers\u00f6nlich stimmt das nicht mehr: Irgendwelchen Bieren nachzurennen, nur des Namens und der Rarit\u00e4t wegen. Ich sags nochmals: Zur\u00fcck zur Gem\u00fctlichkeit muss das Motto sein! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Cans und das Artwork.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Aprikosen IPA von Barfuss<\/p>\n
Barfuss<\/p>\n
Volta Br\u00e4u<\/p>\n
Bei Wortspiele dabei zu sein! Merci nomau<\/p>\n
Ratebeer hat sich kaufen lassen<\/p>\n
AB InBev, big time!<\/p>\n
Wild Beer Co<\/p>\n
Wir werden richtig aufdrehen, sauer fruchtig und durchgeknallt<\/p>\n
nix<\/p>\n
Mehr Saures<\/p>\n
Belgien, again<\/p>\n
New England whatever<\/p>\n
Sours und Brett f\u00fcr die Weltherrschafft<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– Sour Rangers (Weird Beard)
– 05\/27 (BBNo)
– Moon Man (New Glarus)<\/p>\n
– \u00c0 Tue-T\u00eate (CH)
– Red Church (UK)
– Howling Hops (UK)
– Amundsen Bragger (NO)
– Cellarmaker (US)<\/p>\n
– The Mermaid (London) for is large choice of craft beers. I go there to work on my computer in the afternoon.
– The Windsor Castle for the cask Ale, and having a good time with my friends.<\/p>\n
The Good Beer Hunting<\/p>\n
My internship at BBNo, I met so many incredible people with this opportunity.<\/p>\n
The malt factories in Switzerland. I\u2019m happy to see farmers taking part of the craft beer revolution.<\/p>\n
Beers with meat, I\u2019m not vegetarian but…come on guys, there is so many better way to put meat taste in a beer without killing an animal.<\/p>\n
Every cask beer I tried this year at the Windsor Castle. It\u2019s maybe the \u201cpub vibe\u201d that influence me, but it\u2019s so great to have a beer like that after work.<\/p>\n
A good use of the swiss malt, something adapted to it. So a would say a good beer with swiss malt<\/p>\n
Bad swiss laws about the craft beer commerce and production.<\/p>\n
More meeting between swiss brewers and brewers from other countries<\/p>\n
Wortspiele (is it the right answer?)<\/p>\n
Beer Instagrammers posting more pictures of themself than pictures of the breweries they explore<\/p>\n
The Blenderies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– Cloudwater
– Stigbergets
– Nightshift<\/p>\n
Boston!<\/p>\n
Big fresh DDH IPAs<\/p>\n
Why people don’t like a good Pilsner anymore<\/p>\n
Brewers who sell everything via direct sales out the brewery (envy)<\/p>\n
DDH IPAs<\/p>\n
more of the big juicy IPAs & more session Juicy IPAs, I don’t get tired of them.<\/p>\n
– Caramel malt
– Christmas beers<\/p>\n
– Mixed fermentation
– more hops
– nice pilsners<\/p>\n
– Mikkeller’s Copenhagen Beer fest
– Tallinn Craft beer fest
– Beavertown’s beer festival<\/p>\n
bars who wont sell an IPA if it’s 3 weeks old and they know there is a fresher one and want to return the 3 week old IPA for it.<\/p>\n
Bars who want to sell fresh IPAs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– Commons Farmhouse Ale
– Orderville Modern Times<\/p>\n
– Modern Times
– The Dudes<\/p>\n
– The Dudes Taproom, Huntington Beach CA
– Chatty Monks, Reading PA
– Craft Gallery, Bern<\/p>\n
– bierversuche.ch
– Zmurgys<\/p>\n
– Einladung zu Wortspiele#4
– Gewinn B&R Contest<\/p>\n
Was man alles aus einer W\u00fcrze herstellen kann<\/p>\n
Love Among the Ruins, Thornbridge<\/p>\n
Plannen der Brauerei 2.0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Plannen der Brauerei 2.0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Weiter interessante Entdeckungen in der Craft-Beer Welt<\/p>\n
Huntington Beach, CA<\/p>\n
Crazy Banana Slushy – ok, nicht ganz ernst gemeint \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Kreativitaet der ganzen Craft-Szene<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Linnea<\/p>\n
Penyllan<\/p>\n
Arrogant Sour Festival<\/p>\n
Dass unser Biercafe Au Trappiste Teil von Zwanze war!<\/p>\n
Schliessung aller Erzbierschof-Lokale<\/p>\n
Swiss Beer Award<\/p>\n
An vielen:)<\/p>\n
Das m\u00f6chte ich an dieser Stelle noch nicht verraten – gibt aber ein paar Sachen:)<\/p>\n
Deutschland Weltmeister in der Fussball-WM wird<\/p>\n
Viele sch\u00f6ne Momente in unserer Bar<\/p>\n
– Rathausgasse 68
– Rathausgasse 53<\/p>\n
Noch mehr Festivals in der Schweiz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Boyne Brewhouse, Imperial Stout<\/p>\n
– White Hag, Irland
– Boyne Brewhouse, Irland
– YellowBelly, Irland
– Brehon Brewhouse, Irland<\/p>\n
Belfast, Nordirland<\/p>\n
Irische Craft Biere<\/p>\n
All die schlechten „Craft Biere“ grosser Brauereien wie Feldschl\u00f6sschen Blanche oder Rugenbr\u00e4u Fr\u00fchlingsbier und Amber.<\/p>\n
White Hag Brewery, Irland<\/p>\n
Craft Bier wird weiter wachsen<\/p>\n
All die Hypes die noch kommen<\/p>\n
Viele leckere Biere<\/p>\n
Es wird mehr Craft Bier getrunken<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– Avery Uncle Jacob’s Stout
– Cinq 400 Morning Glorya
– Blackwell Kafitante
– Nine Brothers Lemon Milkshake
– Cigar City Hunahpu’s
– La Pirata Black Block Tequila Barrel Aged
– BFM Importer
– Stigbergets GBG Beer Week 2016<\/p>\n
– Stigbergets
– le Triangle
– Uiltje<\/p>\n
– Bierkeller Au Trappiste (Bern)
– Express de Lyon (Paris)<\/p>\n
Tasting Beer by Randy Mosher<\/p>\n
– the start of a new good CH beer festival: Craft Beer Festival Thun
– 11 new country ticks (Grenada, Turks and Caicos, Gibraltar, Bonaire, Vanuatu, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Bhutan, Niger, Cura\u00e7ao, Malawi, Paraguay)
– having met some great people<\/p>\n
That there are still some beer festivals in Switzerland (well, not many …) where neither WhiteFrontier nor Thomas the Tank are present. Sure both will try to fix this \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
– RateBeer sponsoring strategy and technical issues
– death of Erzbierschof
– Swiss Beer Awards: I know: one should never be upset with jokes<\/p>\n
– Avery Uncle Jacob’s Stout<\/p>\n
having good time with great people and outstanding beers<\/p>\n
– not being able to survive the bad quality of the Basler Biermarkt
– not having enough time and capacity to drink all the new beers I would like to<\/p>\n
– some new country ticks and having a lot of good time with beers
– finding time to redesign the amazing 90s look of my homepage<\/p>\n
– Wortspiele #5
– Craft Beer Festival Z\u00fcrich<\/p>\n
being annoyed by beer hypes<\/p>\n
the emergence of solid sour beers masters like Chien Bleu, \u00c0 Tue-T\u00eate! or Nine Brothers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Aventinus Eisbock<\/p>\n
Alefarm<\/p>\n
Beer<\/p>\n
Beer<\/p>\n
Beer<\/p>\n
Alefarm kriek with Elderflowers<\/p>\n
beer<\/p>\n
beer<\/p>\n
more lambic<\/p>\n
Copenhagen?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Tropicale IPA<\/p>\n
Brasserie Trois Dames<\/p>\n
Sainte-Croix<\/p>\n
Miles Davis Biography by Miles Davis<\/p>\n
Das Neue Art Studio in der Brauerei Trois Dames<\/p>\n
Alle Neuen Brauerei in der Schweiz<\/p>\n
Die Politik von Donald Trump<\/p>\n
der am meisten Spass hat am Brauen<\/p>\n
Fussball Weltcup<\/p>\n
Art & Beer Fest – 1.st und 2. of June – Brasserie Trois Dames – Sainte-Croix<\/p>\n
Gesundheit<\/p>\n
Art & Beer Fest – 1.st und 2. of June – Brasserie Trois Dames – Sainte-Croix<\/p>\n
Ja, manchmal<\/p>\n
Nicht immer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Parabola (Firestone Walker)<\/p>\n
Firestone Walker<\/p>\n
Kunze \ud83d\ude1c<\/p>\n
Die ersten Festivals mit der eigenen Brauerei<\/p>\n
Ungebrochener Ansturm neuer Brauereien<\/p>\n
Teilweise mehr aufkommende Missgunst unter kleinen Brauereien.<\/p>\n
Ein neues spannendes Braujahr<\/p>\n
Zu wenig Freizeit…<\/p>\n
Spannende Biere<\/p>\n
SoBiTa<\/p>\n
Hazyspicycraftynerdy<\/p>\n
Alles was mit Bier, Freundschaft und Mut zu Neuem zu tun hat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– Weltenburger Asam Bock. F\u00fcr mich bis jetzt der beste Bock den ich kenne
– Blackwell Saison de Table. So viel Geschmack trotz tiefem ABV ist genial.
– Love Among the Ruins von Thornbridge, ein fantastisches Sour Ale.<\/p>\n
So richtige Neuentdeckungen kann ich grad keine nennen. Die soliden und liebgewonnenen bleiben unver\u00e4ndert und k\u00f6nnen teilweise in den vergangen Jahresr\u00fcckblicken nachgelesen werden.<\/p>\n
– Restaurant Bierhaus „Braui“ Langenthal, sonst kam ich nicht sehr viel rum im 2017 in Sachen Bier.
– Tempor\u00e4r und noch bis zum 04.02.18 die Ausstellung „Bier her! Biertradition im Oberaargau“ im Ortsmuseum Langenthal<\/p>\n
– Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine
– Beer Pairing (R. Caviezel, T. A. Vilgis)
– Schweizer Biere 2017\/2018
– Bierversuche.ch
– Untappd.com<\/p>\n
– Dass ich das Pilotsystem von Blackwell kaufen konnte und jetzt schon fast ein Jahr damit braue.
– Dass ich vom SBV mit dem Bierorden „Ad Gloriam Cerevisiae“ f\u00fcr meine Verdienste rund ums Bier ausgezeichnet wurde.
– Meinen Vortrag zum Thema „Reichtum des regionalen Bieres“ am Hochgenuss’17 in Stans, resp. das sehr positive Feedback von den Teilnehmern.
– Eine neue Rekordg\u00e4stezahl am Anlass „Bier & Z\u00e4sse“ in Rest. Bierhaus in Langenthal.
– Dass mich Bierversuche wieder f\u00fcr den Jahresr\u00fcckblick angefragt hat!
– Dass Bi\u00e8re du Boxer SA von der Doppleleu Brauwerkstatt AG \u00fcbernommen wird. Das Bier meiner Jugend schaut damit in eine gesicherte Zukunft.
– Wortspiele wurde Exportiert. Super Sache, Gratulation!<\/p>\n
– Es gibt mit Patrick Thomi einen neuen Biersommelier-CH-Meister aber ich erhalte nach wie vor Anfragen. Das schmeichelt mir.
– Wie viele neue Craft Beer Festivals es auch dieses Jahr in der Schweiz gab.
– Das Ende vom Erzbierschof.<\/p>\n
– Nicht wirklich ge\u00e4rgert aber entt\u00e4uscht war ich vom Abschneiden des Nationalteams an den Biersommelier Weltmeisterschaften. Bitte aber nicht als Vorwurf an die vier Teilnehmer und den SBV verstehen, die haben alles richtig gemacht in meinen Augen. Ich frage mich nur, wie viel Trainingszeit man in Zukunft investieren muss, um in die Finalrunde zu kommen?
– Genervt hat mich das Gemotze kurz nach der Ank\u00fcndigung, dass es einem Swiss Beer Award gibt. Es gibt beinahe Verschw\u00f6rungstheorien, die denken man (die Grossen Brauereien, der SBV) verhindere durch das Regelwerk aktiv die Teilnahme von Brauereien, die die Grossen in so einem Wettbewerb dann schlagen w\u00fcrden… Man doch k\u00f6nnte zumindest Mal abwarten wie sich die Sache entwickelt und dann urteilen.<\/p>\n
An alle die mir beim trinken ihres Bieres Freude und Genuss bereiteten. D.h. f\u00fcr mich bei Untappd ab 3 Caps und mehr.<\/p>\n
– Dass ich\/Brygger \u00d8l weiterhin Bier braut.
– Das erste Mal Referent am Gastroservice Seminar „Train the Trainer“ zu sein.
– Zu erfahren, wie meine ersten Mead-Experiments nach nun mittlerweile 12 und mehr Monaten Reifung schmecken.
– Zwei Mal Bier & Z\u00e4sse im Restaurant Bierhaus Braui Langenthal sind bereits geplant f\u00fcrs 2018.<\/p>\n
– Immer noch kein Sauerbier gebraut zu haben.
– Es wieder nicht an einen Wortspiele-Anlass zu schaffen im 2018.
– Erreicht oder \u00fcberschreitet die Schweiz den Peak bei den Brauereigr\u00fcndungen? \u00dcberleben alle Kleinbrauer, die die letzten 2-3 Jahre vom Bier Boom profitiert haben? Ist die Schweiz ges\u00e4ttigt in Sachen Bierfestivals, Bierwanderungen etc. und was heisst das f\u00fcr 2018 und die kommenden Jahre?<\/p>\n
– Dass ein Fee kommt und mir ein paar W\u00fcnsche erf\u00fcllt.
– Genug Honigertrag von meinen Bienen um ein bisschen Met daraus zu machen.
– Dass die Brau AG Langenthal nach dem Kapitalschnitt im 2017 jetzt im 2018 die Kurve kriegt. Das Pumpkin Ale und die verbesserte Rezeptur des Red Ale waren f\u00fcr mich auf der Produktseite sehr positive Zeichen in letzter Zeit.<\/p>\n
– Solothurner Biertage, Bierordensfest, hoffentlich an den Beer Contest (wenn keine Terminkollision mit meinen Imkerkursdaten!).
– Ich hoffe auch mal in Basel zu stranden um die Lokale von Andreas Klein abzuklappern (Bierjohann, Bierrevier).<\/p>\n
So langsam reicht es mit den NEIPAs im Mikkeller Beer Club Abo.<\/p>\n
Die neueren unabh\u00e4ngigen Westschweizer Kleinbrauereien (WhiteFrontier, Hoppy People, La N\u00e9buleuse, usw.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
The Sin – Doppelbock Whisky<\/p>\n
– Riegele in Augsburg
– Rieder in Ried
– La Trappe<\/p>\n
– Bierfestival in Den Haag
– Biersilvester in St. Gallen<\/p>\n
Beer-pairing von Rolf Caviezel<\/p>\n
Es gibt immer mehr Bierbaren in den gr\u00f6sseren St\u00e4dten. Die Vielfalt der Biere w\u00e4chst und w\u00e4chst.<\/p>\n
\u00dcber die Vielfalt der Biere. Da gibt es ganz viele Biere, welche doch eher an der unteren Grenze des geniessbaren sind.<\/p>\n
Es gibt mittlerweile sehr viele Bierfachleute…leider mit bescheidenem Wissen.<\/p>\n
Riegele Sonnenk\u00f6nig<\/p>\n
Hoffentlich noch viele spannende Bierideen, Bierfestivals und Bierdinners.<\/p>\n
Marketingveranstaltungen gr\u00f6sserer Brauereien, welche \u00fcber das eigene Sortiment hinaus keine anderen Biere kennen (wollen).<\/p>\n
Biere mit viel Geschmack, welche nicht als IPA gelten.<\/p>\n
Da bin ich noch offen \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Bierkenner mit einer sehr bescheidenen Ahnung!<\/p>\n
Dass es immer mehr Leute gibt, welche nach einem speziellen Bier fragen. Das Bewusstsein w\u00e4chst, dass es noch andere Biere als eine Stange gibt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– Swamis IPA (Pizza Port)
– Milkshark (Bellwoods)<\/p>\n
– Green Cheek
– Pen Druid
– Oxbow
– Stigbergets
– Tommie Sjef<\/p>\n
Canada Water<\/p>\n
– IndyMan – app
– Prime (Richard Turner) – book
– Good Beer Hunting – website<\/p>\n
The Beavertown Extravaganza<\/p>\n
The Wicked Weed sell out<\/p>\n
The fake Cloudwater sell out article.<\/p>\n
Table Beer – The Kernal<\/p>\n
– BeaverEx18 (obvs)
– our 6th Birthday (obvs).<\/p>\n
Brexit<\/p>\n
a pony<\/p>\n
a fancy hat<\/p>\n
Haze\/no haze blah<\/p>\n
Yes it is!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Saison – Der Belgier<\/p>\n
– Der Belgier (Wien)
– Frau Gruber (Bayern)<\/p>\n
\u00dcberquell, Hamburg<\/p>\n
Bier, Bars & Brauer<\/p>\n
Dass ich unter den Top 25 Bier-Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten Deutschlands gelandet bin (auch wenn das gel\u00f6scht werden musste, weil ich f\u00fcr das Magazin schreibe)<\/p>\n
Dass ein Thema wie Wortspiele zwar alle begeistert, aber niemand geht hin.<\/p>\n
Die hygienischen Zust\u00e4nde und Zapf-Verbrechen am Wiener Craft Bier Fest<\/p>\n
Wortspiele Schweiz (Silber geht an die „beerkeeper Awards“).<\/p>\n
Weil ich mit 61+ noch immer aufrecht gehe und weil beerkeeper Awards gr\u00f6\u00dfer werden.<\/p>\n
mir bangt nicht.<\/p>\n
Musik, Musik, Musik – eine Festigung meiner Jazzualdo-Aktivit\u00e4ten<\/p>\n
zur „Loop“ (Musik-Fach-Veranstaltung) in Berlin<\/p>\n
Craftbier (zumal der Begriff l\u00e4ngst von den Gro\u00dfen Konzernen vereinnahmt wurde)<\/p>\n
Kreativbier<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Jopen Barrel Aged<\/p>\n
Brauerei Gusswerk<\/p>\n
bei Karl Zuser am Stammtisch<\/p>\n
– #daraufeinbier
– #ichh\u00f6remichnichtneinsagen<\/p>\n
– Swiss Beer Award
– Stefan Hecht von Schneider Weisse<\/p>\n
Die stete Bewunderung gegen\u00fcber den Trittbrett-fahrenden Brauereien der Schweiz<\/p>\n
Soooo viele unsauber gebraute Biere aus Kleinstbrauereien<\/p>\n
– Christoph Lienert vom SBV
– euch Jungs von bierversuche.ch<\/p>\n
Mal endlich an’s Aventinusfest gehen zu k\u00f6nnen<\/p>\n
Wieder nicht an’s Aventinusfest gehen zu k\u00f6nnen<\/p>\n
Trotzdem an’s Aventinusfest gehen zu k\u00f6nnen<\/p>\n
Aktion\u00e4r-Fass-Anstich Brauhaus Frauenfeld<\/p>\n
Double-Hyper-Super-Booster-Limited-Extra-Special-Hoop …<\/p>\n
sauber gebraute Biere mit eher malzigem Hintergrund deren Namen ich aussprechen kann<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Bevog<\/p>\n
mehr Berliner Weisse!<\/p>\n
noch mehr IPA?<\/p>\n
noch mehr IPA.<\/p>\n
Bevog Deetz golden ale<\/p>\n
EIN bierfestival<\/p>\n
all die anderen<\/p>\n
ein Bierfestival, dass Bier mit essen verkn\u00fcpft?<\/p>\n
hoffentlich Wortspiele, wo ist’s?<\/p>\n
Bitter<\/p>\n
Sauer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– Burning Sky Arise
– Liberty Brewing Divine Wind
– Lost & Grounded Keller Pils
– Pr\u00f6sslbr\u00e4u Adlersberg Palmator
– Craftwork La Framboise
– Fullers Black Cab Stout<\/p>\n
– Burning Sky, Lost & Grounded, Marble and The Kernel still set the standard for me in UK…
– while my old mates at Liberty, Emerson’s, Garage Project and the unbelievably tiny Craftwork are my shining lights in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Oslo and Antwerp. Two thriving beer scenes with a fantastic mix of old and new, in cities I’d never been to before.<\/p>\n
– Brewers Journal and Original Gravity are setting the standard for print publications in UK, while I’ve read a lot of Good Beer Hunting (and listened to a few of their excellent podcasts).
– You can’t visit London without the Craft Beer London app… two years since I purchased it I still find myself using it weekly.<\/p>\n
Returning to my home-away-from-home Melbourne, for the first time in three years, to attend world’s best beer festival: the Great Autralasian Beer SpecTAPular. And catch up with old friends and family.<\/p>\n
after fruit in 2016, then haze in 2017, what on earth is coming next for IPA?<\/p>\n
– Social media in-fighting, bullying, and a lack of empathy.
– And pastry stouts…. Begone pastry stouts!!<\/p>\n
a contemplative pint of Burning Sky Arise on a quiet weekday afternoon, this autumn, in the lovely Earl of Essex (Islington) while waiting for a colleague who never showed up. I achieved more in my mind, in that half hour, than I ever could have in all the meetings this year. Sometimes a quiet pint is all you need<\/p>\n
kicking off our UK-brewed seasonal program that got pushed back in 2017 due to the fact that we had to move brewery at very short notice.<\/p>\n
The travel and all the time away from family. As much as I love meeting new people, seeing new beer markets, telling our story, and trying great beers all around the world, it’s hard to be away from family so much.<\/p>\n
a fantastic tenth year for Yeastie Boys, following along the same lines that we’ve pursued in the last nine years: a focus on innovation, quality, and good friends.<\/p>\n
– great London bars…
– and in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
– Maybe around Europe too!
– Most importantly, for the first time in almost four years, I’ll get back to my favourite pub in the world: The Wheatsheaf, Adelaide, South Australia.<\/p>\n
hype is fun… let people have fun with beer.<\/p>\n
the normalisation of modern beer in UK. Seeing it become a far more important addition to restaurant menus, on tap in the fridges of traditional ale venues, and on supermarket shelves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
The Huntsman in Thurlstone<\/p>\n
Fyne Fest<\/p>\n
so many off flavours in NEIPAs<\/p>\n
Timothy Taylors: Land Lord<\/p>\n
Fyne Fest<\/p>\n
a Land Rover<\/p>\n
Fyne Fest<\/p>\n
NEIPA<\/p>\n
Cryo Hops<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– J. Wakefield 3 Chiefs Boutit Bouti
– J. Wakefield 6ix Days in Dade
– The Lost Abbey PX 7
– Almanac Grand Cru Ed 2
– Avery Brewing Uncle Jacob’s Stout (2016)
– Tree House Alter Ego
– Boatrocker Time Lord<\/p>\n
– J. Wakefield
– The Lost Abbey (the sours)
– Boatrocker<\/p>\n
– Biercafe\/Bierkeller Au Trappiste
– The International Beerbar
– The Alehouse
– Mise en Bi\u00e8re<\/p>\n
Untappd<\/p>\n
Festivals (Wortspiele Lausanne \/ Arrogant Sour \/ Extravaganza \/ Borefts)<\/p>\n
– Die Brauereidichte in der Schweiz wird dichter und dichter – man verliert langsam den \u00dcberblick.
– Die Qualit\u00e4t der Biere der neuen Brauereien hat noch viel Potential nach oben!<\/p>\n
Das Ende vom Erzbierschof – einem der Bierpioniere in der Schweiz.<\/p>\n
J. Wakefield<\/p>\n
mit guten Freunden Festivals besuchen<\/p>\n
mehr Innovation\/Qualit\u00e4t der vielen neuen Schweizer (Kleinst)Brauereien<\/p>\n
– MBC
– Arrogant Sour
– USA<\/p>\n
Session IPAs<\/p>\n
Egal wer Pr\u00e4sident ist in den USA – auf die Innovation und Qualit\u00e4t der Biere aus den Staaten hat es keinen Einfluss – zum Gl\u00fcck!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
zu viele um eines zu nennen<\/p>\n
Fat Head’s<\/p>\n
Voltabr\u00e4u<\/p>\n
Bierversuche<\/p>\n
Wortspiele<\/p>\n
einiges<\/p>\n
weniges<\/p>\n
hoffentlich wieder mehr Zeit zum Brauen<\/p>\n
Donald Trump auf Skis<\/p>\n
Weltfrieden<\/p>\n
Dorfmetzgerei<\/p>\n
nichts. Suum cuique.<\/p>\n
NEIPA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Always hard to pick just one!!
– Zenne y Frontera from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen
– A crazy Maple Gueuze from Tilquin
– hop monsters from Other Half and Trillium in the US.<\/p>\n
As above<\/p>\n
Our new tasting room \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
http:\/\/goodbeerhunting.com always a go to for brewery news.<\/p>\n
Our first DDH pale ale put into 500ml cans. Sold out 500 case in 2 days. Damn. Have to buy a canning line now!!<\/p>\n
Lots of breweries expanding into wild\/farmhouse ales in the UK. I m a fan of these beers, but wonder how much demand there is outside the beer geek community?<\/p>\n
The on going Brexit saga. No one know whats going on, or what the outcome will be… At least the cheap pound has been good for exports in the short term!<\/p>\n
Zenne y Frontera from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen – as close to perfect as you can get!!<\/p>\n
More expansion, more cans, more juice!<\/p>\n
More expansion!!<\/p>\n
Now we have cold storage, its got to be cold chain distribution.<\/p>\n
Switzerland from 7th Feb!! Looking forward to TTOs, collabs and catching some sweet hang-time on the slopes, haha!<\/p>\n
I really liked (among several others) De Cam’s Trosbessen and Kersen\/cassis-lambiek from Vandenbroek. They are both very pure and balanced beers!<\/p>\n
I knew them before, but I started to enjoy the beers of Brasserie de la Senne and De Ranke more and more. Great balance, bitterness and drinkability.<\/p>\n
Not really a place but I had a great time at the first edition of BXLbeerfest in Brussels! Good atmosphere and a the quality of the beers was really good.<\/p>\n
Bier! written by Rick Kempen (Dutch)<\/p>\n
The enthusiasm of all the people that enjoying our beers as well as our barrel expansion in our new facility.<\/p>\n
That I passed my technical exam on the guitar, haha<\/p>\n
Nothing in particular \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
My family for helping and making our wild ales possible!<\/p>\n
– Finishing my studies (guitar at the Conservatory) and spending much more time on the beer (and the guitar as well)!
– Filling more barrels, looking for a new location, improving the quality and efficienty of our beer making and… doing more spontaneous wines<\/p>\n
Working too much \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Spending a good amount of my time with my family, friends, myself (meditation\/yoga\/sports) and nature.<\/p>\n
– Carnivale Brettanomyces
– Beavertown Extravaganza!<\/p>\n
Too sweet beers<\/p>\n
More spontaneosly fermented\/mixed fermentation beer producers are popping up!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
– Medianoche (Weldwerks)
– Bianca Raspberry Wild Wild Brett (Crooked Stave\/Omnipollo Collab)<\/p>\n
– Weldwerks
– Call to Arms<\/p>\n
When we get to leave the brewhouse:
– Arapahoe Basin Ski Resort (carrying Crooked Stave)
– Kenosha Steakhouse in Breckenridge, CO<\/p>\n
My co-workers weekly update emails are about all we get to read<\/p>\n
– Making double concoction brews and growing the spontaneous fermentation program
– giving away some free Von Pilsner to Football fans<\/p>\n
What is the next hype?<\/p>\n
The lack of snow in our Colorado Mountains<\/p>\n
Our soon to be packaged Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout<\/p>\n
Regaining our sanity<\/p>\n
More than likely not regaining our sanity<\/p>\n
A hop back and a bigger yeast propagation for the brewhouse<\/p>\n
Scooping fruit out of our foeders<\/p>\n
Sour Ros\u00e9 (oak aged beer) in a CAN!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n