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Jeff Alworth
Personal blog · beervanablog.com/beervanaculturebusiness
Jeff Alworth writes Beervana, a personal blog at beervanablog.com about culture and business. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Jeff Alworth's Beervana blog on beer and hops. HN readers link it for pieces on hop breeding and on opening a brewery, which are cited as background for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Founded by Jeff Alworth in 2006, the award-winning Beervana Blog has been the leading source for beer news, insights about brewing, beer culture, and opinion in thw woeld of beer. Alworth is the author of books and columns, co-host of the Beervana Podcast, and an instructor at Portland State Univers
What Hacker News says?
Hop breeding works that way, plants are actively bred. The ones that are agronomically useful will see bigger and bigger plantings until they are tried at market. When they either fail or establish themselves (to the point of completely overtaking the market like citra did). With wine it's similar so I suspect its just how most of this works. https://www.beervanablog.com/beervana/2021/3/3/how-a-hop-ear...
Comment linking /beervana/2021/3/3/how-a-hop-earns-its-name
on “Atomic Gardening”Submitted When pubs briefly replaced banks as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>After the boil is over. This is called "dry-hopping". This contributes no bitterness whatsoever In my experience, heavy dry-hopping contributes noticeable bitterness. If you have access to hops this is easy enough to confirm: get some lightly hopped beer, add a lot of hops (heavily hopped New England style IPAs can use 1oz/gal or more for dry hopping), and let it sit for a few days. After you've strained the hops o…
Comment linking /beervana/2017/4/17/yes-dry-hopping-does-add-bitterness-to-beer
on “So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (2014)”Submitted After 39 Years, All About Beer Magazine Is Dead as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf i understand correctly, one of the distinctive things about New York's elevated railways is that they ran on top of roads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevated_railway#/media/File:R... Whereas that line in Berlin looks like it's on a viaduct. Lines on viaducts are all over the place, including in London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_%E2%80%93_Greenw... As in Berlin, and i'm sure everywhere, the a…
Comment linking /beervana/2019/9/12/Londons-railway-arch-breweries
on “The Dream of New York's Forgotten Elevated Subway”