Beer “What is dubbed craft brewed beer attracts consumers with far greater clarity of language, structure, and understanding of beer culture” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 November 2015 While Bourdieu spoke of taste in much broader cultural terms, we can use his...
Beer, Semantics “Like all consumer groupings and their accompanying system of social exchange, the brewing world possesses its own form of language” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 October 2015 Like all consumer groupings and their accompanying system of social exchange, the brewing world...
Beer “If beer is to be considered a text, for much of our recent history, we forgot the language” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 October 2015 Brewers in Ancient Civilization knew not only how to make beer, but they knew...
Beer, Journalism “As a culture that purportedly appreciates truth and honesty, the old world of quality journalism seems more important than ever” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 October 2015 We often hear that we’re living in a new age of journalism, that Millennials...
Beer, Food “The food revolution in California and the advent of a unique cuisine within the state would take multiple forms and lead to many new features of American gastronomy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 October 2015 The social movements of the 1960s that espoused multicultural values and new norms of...
Beer, Writing “The lack of a fair wage also leads many beer writers to take outside work as brand consultants or public relations agents and consultants” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 October 2015 Information is great, quality stories even better. But readers require context. In an age...
Beer “Home brewing was the open secret in the midst of the ban on all alcohol” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 October 2015 In the thirteen years that Prohibition was in effect, a well-known but rarely talked...
Beer, Writing “Sunshine has long worked as the best disinfectant and it remains the same for beer writing” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 October 2015 Sunshine has long worked as the best disinfectant and it remains the same for...
Beer “Craft beer is both a tool of self-identity and community-making” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 September 2015 Craft beer is both a tool of self-identity and community-making. As breweries continue to...
Beer “It is strange to consider beer as a text. Yet if we are to seek a deeper understanding of the world around us, all human endeavor is encoded with symbolism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 September 2015 It is strange to consider beer as a text. Yet if we are to...