beer column
Collaboration beers seem to be everywhere these days. There are many draws for both breweries and consumers. So let’s start with why the breweries have taken to the practice so eagerly, in non-exhaustive list format, in no particular order: 1. The craft beer community is just that, it’s a community. Breweries aren’t in competition with each other, they consider themselves all part of a brewing community that cares about and shares with each other. So it’s only natural to want to brew together too. "Beer is, first and foremost, a convivial drink," explains Garrett Oliver, brewmaster at New York's Brooklyn Brewery and editor of The Oxford Companion to Beer. "So we are colleagues, brothers and sisters first, and competitors second." One of the unfathomable parts of craft brewing to other business people is the lack of trade secrets in the industry. Brewers happily share their recipes with each other, and with home brewers. When you’re...
