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Very interesting beer article in The New Yorker!

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Wow. A bullet proof wooden barrel. Would be very interested to find out what kind of flavours this wood introduces to the beer.

Wood ageing seems to be the next big thing in the US, if I'm reading trends correctly.

[quote:1wienstb]“I find the term ‘extreme beer’ irredeemably pejorative,” Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, told me recently. “When a brewer says, ‘This has more hops in it than anything you’ve had in your life—are you man enough to drink it?,’ it’s sort of like a chef saying, ‘This stew has more salt in it than anything you’ve ever had—are you man enough to eat it?’ ”[/quote:1wienstb]

yay