Let Us Now Praise . . . All About Beer Magazine
/What I’ve most appreciated, however, is AAB’s commitment to documenting and sharing the history of the “craft beer” moment.
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/And I, the sidekick who just waits for orders and then acts, am sucking all of it up and in.
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/Because in my heart, to borrow Anne Frank’s phrase, I believe that if we understand that the past is different from the present, then we also understand that the future is ours to shape.
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/In my hotel room was a bucket of what I believe is known as swag (again, swag is not me): three bottles of beer, including a big-boy, corked bottle of American Kriek. (Which, no, I didn't taste and sure couldn't take back on the plane. Imagine the tears flowing from my eyes.)
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Was going to post this on Facebook (had already posted it on Twitter), but realized that this is the kind of stuff I used to bring here. Back in the old days.
Anyway: I ran across this (via Twitter) this morning and want to make sure as many people as possible see it. The content is delightful and informative.
BUT: the Big Important Point is one that I've hammered at for a long time, and the one that drives all my work: It's a perfect, and I do mean perfect, example of how academics, experts, intellectuals of all kinds (scientists, anthropologists, historians, whatever) can use new media to communicate complex ideas to a wide audience.
Perfection.