No, I wasn't there, but I did enjoy watching the awards stream, and it was quite pleasing to see some favorite breweries and beers (both local and those from further afield) hailed. Stoudt's has been turning out incredibly well-crafted German-style beers since long before it was trendy to do so (and I would argue that high-quality German-style beers still suffer by association with their watery macro cousins - it's hard for some to believe that a great lager exists, while it's easy to accept an amazing Russian Imperial Stout, simply because there hasn't been a craptacular macro version - yet). Their
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Beer Culture: Post-GABF Thoughts
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No, I wasn't there, but I did enjoy watching the awards stream, and it was quite pleasing to see some favorite breweries and beers (both local and those from further afield) hailed. Stoudt's has been turning out incredibly well-crafted German-style beers since long before it was trendy to do so (and I would argue that high-quality German-style beers still suffer by association with their watery macro cousins - it's hard for some to believe that a great lager exists, while it's easy to accept an amazing Russian Imperial Stout, simply because there hasn't been a craptacular macro version - yet). Their