brewing

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• SOURCE: Going Medieval
  8/18/2022
  

  On Beer, or, Why Chicks Rock

  by Eleanor Janega

  The history of brewing in medieval Europe reflects on the present in interesting ways from the inside of the pub. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/17/2021
  

  The Hard Seltzer Trend Echoes the 19th Century Craze for Lager

  "Lagers were introduced by a wave of German immigrants pouring in from Europe. To uninitiated Americans, lager was simply weird. But for Germans-turned-German-Americans, the beer was inseparable from the culture of its consumption."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/3/2021
  

  The Solution to the Craft Beer Industry’s Sexism and Diversity Problems

  by Allyson P. Brantley

  Absent robust enforcement of sex discrimination prohibitions by the EEOC (which frequently dismissed women brewery workers' complaints), consumer boycotts alongside union actions forced major brewers to change their practices. Will similar strategies help fight sexism in today's craft brewing world?

• SOURCE: NYT
  3-17-13
  

  Jeffrey P. Kahn: How Beer Gave Us Civilization

  Jeffrey P. Kahn, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, is the author of “Angst: Origins of Anxiety and Depression.”HUMAN beings are social animals. But just as important, we are socially constrained as well.We can probably thank the latter trait for keeping our fledgling species alive at the dawn of man. Five core social instincts, I have argued, gave structure and strength to our primeval herds. They kept us safely codependent with our fellow clan members, assigned us a rank in the pecking order, made sure we all did our chores, discouraged us from offending others, and removed us from this social coil when we became a drag on shared resources.Thus could our ancient forebears cooperate, prosper, multiply — and pass along their DNA to later generations.