A look into how marketeers used the term aftertaste for their branding and how the term couples with the so-called Evans Ale in the 1930s.

"Those who know the beer palate well generally like a good aftertaste including one where the hop resins are telling. Yet, humans are conditioned not to like bitter tastes, probably because many poisons are bitter, so bitterness in beer has long been a challenge for brewers and marketers who, after all, need a larger market to survive. "
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Your weekly translations for the week! This time about another group of millet and barley beer drinkers, the Pannonians.

The good folks over at Boak & Bailey have begun a Patreon page! They do some good research into the pubs of England, so please support if you can!
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A translation of Grenell's publication on the Gose-style from 1907.
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A brief look into the history of the Dark 'n Stormy cocktail.

"When the seamen and women retire from the Royal Naval Dockyard for an evening drink, the beverage they'll most likely have in hand is the Dark 'n' Stormy, the unofficial drink of Bermuda and of the global boating and sailing community."
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Efforts to promote the study of Sake in Japan.
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First time I heard about so-called 'city beer'. Will have to look into this more!

"Brewing in Louisiana, as it was everywhere in America, was mainly created in personal homes and city taverns. The first beers were “city beers”, beer that had such a short shelf life it couldn’t be sold outside the city. Lagers were too difficult to produce in our climate and lack of ingredient access, so city beers were created and sweetened with local molasses. "
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A collaboration event between a brewery in Asheville, N.C. and Ron Pattinson of Shut Up About Barclay Perkins fame. 

A prohibition era lager is to be brewed for its would-be 160th anniversary.

"“This beer has a real history,” Holcomb. “It was the first manufacturing company in Minneapolis. It was the first to patent malt liquor in the U.S. It was one of just three breweries to supply beer to the U.S. Army in World War II."
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A look into early attempts to market beer towards women.

"So the company shrank the can size from 12 to 8 ounces. The cans were packaged in sets of four, or “Princess Paks.” Using marketing language that would make Peggy Olson of “Mad Men” cringe, the beer was labeled “beerette” and “bitter-free” and “calorie-controlled.”"
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Recent discovery of rectangular structures covered in soot suggests a malting facility was discovered in Lincoln.

"But what were they used for? One clue is in the smoke-blackened floor and flue (gap in the stones) on one side: the likely explanation is that hot air from a fire passed into this space, gently warming a wooden floor above, and that the buildings were malt kilns, where barley was turned slowly into malt, to be brewed into beer."
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Missed this one by accident, sorry about that!

The folks over at Lost Lagers brewed up a historical cream ale local to Florida for a recent fundraising event.

"Hubner and Falco got together at last April's Craft Beer Conference in D.C. Falco wanted to brew a historical beer. They decided to revive the old recipe for a fundraising event on May 7 at Lincoln's Beard for the Honor Flight Network, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing World War II veterans to see the national monuments in D.C."

An awesome homebrew experiment that tested whether spent grains could be used to ferment future batches of beer.
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A look into the history behind Brooklyn lager.

"To read this morning the beer was in fact inspired by a c. 1900 brewing log makes perfect sense, everything ties together. I had been aware that Sam Adams lager was inspired by a 19th century recipe, and broadly it shows the traits the research disclosed, but I hadn’t known that Brooklyn brewery’s lager had similar roots."

Be sure to catch some new publications from Beer et seq. in the new Brewery History!
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A nice overview of the recent works at Gobekli Tepe and their implications to brewings' role in the development of agriculture.
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A brewery in Athens is set to revive a recipe developed in the early 1900s, thanks to the efforts of the original brewer's grandson.

Efforts to bulldoze an old malting facility by MillerCoors was put on hold by the local city council.

A new book outlining beer and brewing in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Excerpts from a book about the state of the English beer industry in 1966.

"All the successful beers launched on a national scale in the ten years following the last war, whether pale in colour or dark, were sweeter rather than drier. Now, some twenty years later, the situation is changing again, and full-drinking bitter beers, both in bottle and in cask, are returning to prominence. "
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A brief look into Bert Grant, the man who opened the first brewpub in the US since prohibition.

"I have not read as widely about Bert Grant as I hope to soon but it is so nice to read that he was a bit weird, maybe uppiddy and a touch disagreeable. We are all so quick to praise and beatify to the point of blandification that coming across the mere human in craft is becoming sadly rare."
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Your translation for the week! This time, an excerpt from Aulus Cornelius Celsus.
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Another log in Lars Garshol's many travels throughout Scandinavia searching for farmhouse ales. 

"They call themselves Dånnåbakken Såinnhuslag, the group of 4-5 brewers and malters who share one brewery and malt kiln. From the outside the house looks like someone's home, except it's too small and doesn't have enough windows. Inside, the malting part of the house is bare and functional, but the brewery is more homely, with a kitchen and a table for gatherings"
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A great piece on the Pulque revival in Mexico!

"For centuries (or perhaps longer), pulque was not just prized, it was sacred, its consumption restricted to the holy and the wise. The Aztecs knew it as the Drink of the Gods or centzontotochin—literally “400 rabbits,” so called for the 400 different people you could become under its influence—and associated it closely with Mayahuel, the goddess of fertility and embodiment of the agave plant, or maguey."

A book released this last Tuesday on the oldest operating pub in New York.

A podcast from the Beervana blog about the history of the American IPA.

"​In the latest Beervana podcast, Jeff Alworth and Patrick Emerson recount a history of the American IPA. They begin with the birth of the style in England and disprove a few myths before tracing the style’s evolution in America. With the stage set, the two time travel through 35 years of IPAs by tasting classics from three distinct eras."

I unfortunately had to miss the roundup last week, but one post that is definitely worth a read is - 
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A look at how anti-immigration policies lead to the eventual riot of German neighborhoods in Chicago.

"German neighborhoods reacted quickly, accusing Boone of stripping their rights and marginalizing them based on their ethnicity. The backlash started peacefully—Germans held public meetings and submitted numerous petitions. The city rejected them all."