It’s been a minute or two since I wrote a blog addressing anything other than our most familiar situations. The acquisition of Boxing Cat by Brazilian brewing giant Anheuser Busch InBev has permeated just about every aspect of the Chinese craft brewing industry for the past four months. There isn’t a lot more I can […]
In 2009, I started home brewing. The first beer I brewed would turn into the Pale Ale #6. It was an amber colored beer that was brewed out of necessity due to a lack of raw materials. Local malt, local hops, whatever yeast was available at the time. It’s one of the simplest beers we […]
So, its Thursday, March 2nd. About half past six. I’ve received a countless amount of messages all asking me the same question. “Is it true that ABI just bought Boxing Cat?” I’ve known since Tuesday February 28th. Lee Tseng called me as I was walking to my favorite pork rice joint in the world. He […]
I like Numbers. Not the TV crime drama, that show sucked. I like actual physical numbers. We use them for loads of stuff. When you deal in a consumer commodity like beer, your industry lives and dies by numbers. Consumption statistics, revenue, volumes produced vs. volumes sold, you know, numbers. Fucking A. Recently my industry, […]
What is contract brewing? Contract brewing is when a brewery is either selling more beer than it can physically produce and needs to supplement capacity elsewhere to meet demand, OR a beer brand cannot or will not fund its own production facility and instead chooses to pay someone with the existing fixed assets to brew […]
Disclaimer, this isn’t a blog post about contract beer. I’ll bitch about that later. This is a blog post about noise and shade. When you are an immigrant, sometimes its hard to figure out where you belong in your host society. Its even hard to find the right word to describe who we are as […]
