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Stan Hieronymus

@stanhieronymus.bsky.social
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Standard issue optimistic skeptic. That's me with Kermit Ruffins in the tiny circle, a signal I may post about roots music even though people associate me with beer (appellationbeer.com), and specifically with hops (hopqueries.com/subscribe).

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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 10h
And all this time I thought long bars were installed to accommodate tickers.
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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My new book is finally out! A short, readable overall history of beer tracing the long lines in the development of beer. Seeing history like that inevitably brings out an overlooked side of the history of beer: beer as a source of massive power. Please repost! www.garshol.priv.no/download/pow...
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The Power of Beer
Personal site of Lars Marius Garshol.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Let's hear it for simple truths.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Judiciously picked, content-friendly.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Raising the question of the day: How will Untappd distinguish between 135 expressions of Heineken?
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The court filing “reflects the difficult capital environment the entire craft brewing industry is navigating.” www.startribune.com/summit-brewi...
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Summit Brewing could lose St. Paul brewery to foreclosure
BMO Bank alleges Summit’s finances continued to deteriorate after it missed a loan payment. Summit chief executive says its issues reflect “the difficult capital environment the entire craft brewing i...
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
No gatekeeping here.
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Andreas Krennmair @akrennmair.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here's a job ad from 1841, in which the citizens of Pilsen with the right to brew announced that they were currently building a brewery, to be finished in autumn 1842, and that they were looking for a brewer to fill the position of managing director or brewmaster by end of May 1842. #beerhistory
An ad, translated to English it says:

For brewers

The brewing-entitled citizens of Pilsen in Bohemia are constructing a brewery for lager, which is due to be completed and brought into operation in the autumn of 1842. The brewery is situated on the river, equipped with all necessary premises, accommodation and an excellent rock cellar, and will have a sufficient stock of malt; the brew is calculated at 64 Austrian buckets and the annual production at approximately 8,000 to 10,000 buckets. To manage this business, an experienced brewer, fully qualified in his field and able to provide evidence of this through references and a suitable security deposit, is sought as manager or brewmaster; he is assured of a reasonable salary, in addition to free accommodation, the use of spent grain and waste products, a licence to serve beer to be obtained, and similar benefits.

Those wishing to apply should do so in writing, or preferably in person for the sake of better communication, by the end of May 1842 at the latest, to the committee of the brewing-entitled citizens of Pilsen in Bohemia.

source: https://digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10504562?page=752,753
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Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wow, high volume bar in Boston kept getting under-delivered by AB during the World Cup so they've very publicly dropped their entire product line. I don't remember seeing anything quite like this before.
Post from Sullivan's Tap

We have been doing business with @ab_oneboston since our doors opened in 1933.

During the hight of the World Cup they left us high and dry. After countless attempts to get them to come in and deliver to us, they would either not show up or forget half our order at the warehouse.

We can not operate under these situations and want to provide you with our best service. We have decided to eliminate their products from our bar. They are not the only game in town and we can always find you something else to drink.

If this upsets you then we apologize but we have to do what's in the best interest for the bar. We needed a reliable distributor and they failed.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When you accidentally run across a ‘review’ like this on Untappd . . . “Probably as good as a pilsner can get — 3.75” File under Things To Aspire To.
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with plenty of pubs and a little bit of road-transport logistics for those who are into that sort of thing. boakandbailey.com/2026/09/news...
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News, nuggets and longreads 5 September 2026: Grand Vitesse
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got lists, pub crawls and ‘GDPI’.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The "most American brewery in Canada" has a tariff problem. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/09/03/d...
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Canadian brewery eyes move to shuttered Maine pub amid escalating tariff dispute
Given the latest developments, the owners of Mother Mushroom Brewery & Farmstay, have decided they can no longer operate out of their oceanfront lot on Campobello Island.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Neither nor rain nor snow nor a misdirected DNS . . . If you were up early this morning you might have felt a disturbance in the force. Things got back to normal when the beery news notes arrived.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Climate change, anybody? How about some Saaz* with only 1.8% alpha acids? *Full disclosure. Not Saaz in photo. hopqueries.com/very-bad-new...
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Very bad news from European hop fields - HOP QUERIES
For the second time in five years, hop production across Europe has tumbled as a result of an intense heat wave and below average rainfall. – The Association of German Hop Growers estimates they will ...
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"It's for grodziskie extremophiles only." I'd buy that bumper sticker.
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Alan McLeod / A Good Beer Blog @agoodbeerblog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
An hour at the Portsmouth Tavern in Kingston: abetterbeerblog427.com/2026/08/28/q...
The front door of the Portsmouth Tavern at Kingston, Ontario on an summer evening
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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Somewhere on this planet my book Beer Ghosts is being printed and bound as we speak, officially publishing on Oct. 20. If you are interested in beer, women, work, the 19th century, and hand-crafted research and writing, it might be of interest! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Beer Ghosts
The little-known story of the young women who played a vital role in the rise of America’s great breweries.Water, malt, yeast, and hops: these are essential ingredients of beer. Hops, specifically, pl...
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Are there tariffs ahead for these cross border beery news notes?
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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I think one of my favourite things about Pellicle is getting local perspectives on areas you don't always read about. We've got another Notts story for you next week, in fact. Funny how these things always come in twos.
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chicagobeerhistory.bsky.social @chicagobeerhistory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
First interview is a wrap. Good to work out the kinks and get this ball rolling.
An apartment with cameras and a light setup for an interview
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One more example of what scale means at large breweries. A neon sign with "4,500 feet of neon tubing and 2,000 incandescent bulbs" fox2now.com/news/missour...
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Historic Anheuser-Busch eagle sign arrives in St. Louis
The historic neon-lit eagle sign that for decades stood atop the company’s former brewery in Newark, New Jersey, has arrived in St. Louis and has been restored and relit above the Anheuser-Bu…
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Subtly complex or complexly subtle?
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Which one of these -- Alaskan Smoked Porter, Allagash White, Bourbon County Stout, Pete's Wicked Ale, Pliney the Elder -- was brewed first? www.americancraftbeerhalloffame.com/blog/2026-la...
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2026 Landmark Beers — ACBHOF
In the Summer of 2025, following the induction of the inaugural members of the American Craft Beer Hall of Fame, we began a new initiative that focused on the beers that helped make the industry great...
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Spoiler alert: There’s an element here, too, of pubs having lost the crowd. There are welcoming, inclusive pubs that feel like part of the modern world. But there are also those which have stubbornly failed to respond to changing demographics. boakandbailey.com/2026/08/outs...
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Outside the bubble: “Pubs don't deserve special treatment”
It’s a given, isn’t it, that pubs are a good thing and deserve protection? Well, it turns out that many people disagree.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
TerraSurge and TerraFlux are [________] (fill in the blank) hopqueries.com/hbc-launches...
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HBC launches Terra Alpha hops - HOP QUERIES
John I. Haas suggests the “future of alpha is Terra.” I’m focused on the ASBC and CIBC Meeting in Seattle this week to I will let this lightly edited press release do the heavy lifting. Hop Breeding C...
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular weekly round-up of good writing about beer and pubs with notes on dive bar life, shipwrecked Guinness, the nature of saison, beers that don't feel like beer, and Japan. boakandbailey.com/2026/08/news...
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News, nuggets and longreads 15 August 2026: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got shipwrecks, dive bars and Japan.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Still a sucker for the footnotes
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
BLOG POST: We've had some good service in pubs lately, from book recommendations to diplomatic handling of dodgy pints. boakandbailey.com/2026/08/some...
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Some good bar staffing we have seen
We’ve seen some great professional behaviour from the staff in pubs lately, from dealing with dodgy pints to treating customers with kindness.
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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
LOL, I'm wrong. Maybe the haze should have made it obvious, because the bottle is bottle-conditioned. But, of course, bottle conditioning does not make beer taste superior to canning it, as every sane person knows. Nice one, Sierra Nevada. Consider my neck fully wound in.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
* With extended quotes.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ugh. Almost time for hop harvest and wildfire smoke filling the air in Willamette and Yakima valleys. hopqueries.com/hop-harvest-...
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Hop harvest is coming; wildfires are already here - HOP QUERIES
Monday, the Oregon Hop Growers Association issued a press release that began: “Next week, many of Oregon’s hop growers will begin the first round of harvest, with fresh hop beer season soon to follow ...
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ouch! "I doubt it's turned out as anyone wanted it. The thing about there being lots and lots of hazy IPAs on sale is that the bad ones really stick out, and this is a bad one."
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
On pubs that feel "fresh and old at the same time." Perhaps beers benefit in the same way. boakandbailey.com/2026/08/what...
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What makes a pub feel modern?
If your pub is painted mostly grey or has an industrial look, it probably feels old-fashioned. The best modern pubs are just Victorian enough.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Moonraker kicks ass. newschoolbeer.com/home/2026/8/...
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2026 Best of The West Coast National IPA Competition Winners — New School Beer + Cider
Best of the West national IPA competition announced the 2026 award-winning beers from across the country. Oregon breweries topped the leaderboard with 19 medals, with California following closely with...
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, top and tailed with lagers (one a classic, the other 'watery'), and with a couple of notes from Ireland in the middle. boakandbailey.com/2026/08/news...
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News, nuggets and longreads 1 August 2026: African Psycho
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got warmer Guinness, Italian pils and the Good People.
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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Was suddenly reminded of my dictionary of Finnish drinking words. Still think it's one of my best blog posts. www.garshol.priv.no/blog/413.html
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A small dictionary of Finnish drinking words | Larsblog
Personal blog of Lars Marius Garshol.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Why I will spend the rest of the morning whistling, "Mabel, Black Label." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUd6...
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Classic Mabel Carling Black Label Beer jingle TV Commercial
YouTube video by VintageTVCommercials
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular round up of good writing about beer and pubs, with an emphasis on the latter this week. boakandbailey.com/2026/07/news...
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News, nuggets and longreads 25 July 2026: Grimscribe
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got West Wales, South Wales, Belfast and Edinburgh.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Mmm raspberries.
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chicagobeerhistory.bsky.social @chicagobeerhistory.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Less than 24 hours! This is your last chance to help us hit full funding. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cbh...
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Dancing Clock: Time To Party
ALT: Dancing Clock: Time To Party
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chicagobeerhistory.bsky.social @chicagobeerhistory.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ok, It's countdown time. We have about 70 hours left on the clock. We just picked up Crust Brewing in Rosemont as a sponsor level backer. Welcome aboard friends! $2500 left to go. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cbh...
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Time Wasting
ALT: Time Wasting
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New School Beer + Cider @newschoolbeer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In Memoriam of Alan Sprints. The legendary Hair of the Dog Brewing founder has passed away at 66. #RIP newschoolbeer.com/home/2026/7/...
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In Memoriam: Alan Sprints, Hair of the Dog Brewing founder (1959-2026) — New School Beer + Cider
A great light in the craft beer world has gone out, but like a distant star, Alan Sprints legacy will shine on for generations long after he is gone. On Sunday I awoke from a post beer fest slumber...
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular weekly roundup of good writing about beer and pubs. This time we've got a lost beer style from Breslau, extreme pub crawling, and an unusual Wetherspoon, among other items. boakandbailey.com/2026/07/news...
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News, nuggets and longreads 18 July 2026: Nights of Cabiria
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got pubs by bike, Nigerian Guinness and the wonder of pubs.
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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Marquette, MI today…
A very smoky view of the lighthouse in Marquette, MI
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Why I will spend the rest of my day wondering about the “taste of socks”
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Yes to more, probably short(ish), blog posts. Unpolished is fine. boakandbailey.com/2026/07/news...
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News, nuggets and longreads 11 July 2026: Bee Speaker
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Dortmunder, Helles and Obatzda.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
If you, like I, moved to a new time zone this week then this is a good way to catch up.
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Dave Zalatoris @beerinfront.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This week on Beer In Front, brewer Andrew Mason joins me to talk about his Kickstarter project, @chicagobeerhistory.bsky.social preserving the people, breweries, and stories that built Chicago's beer scene. #BeerInFront #ChicagoBeer #CraftBeer #BeerHistory www.spreaker.com/episode/310-...
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310 Chicago Beer History With Andrew Mason
Chicago Brewing History of the 1990s with Andrew Mason Chicago's craft beer scene didn't happen overnight.This week, Dave sits down with longtime brewer Andrew
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular round up of good writing about beer and pubs, with notes on Humphrey Smith, pubs for young 'uns, and a Sussex village where the beer scene is booming gently. boakandbailey.com/2026/07/news...
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News, nuggets and longreads 4 July 2026: Reflections in a Golden Eye
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got deaths, rebirths and football.
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Stan Hieronymus @stanhieronymus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Kenny Loggins thanks you for this morning's ear worm: "Danger Zone."
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