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Saturday, July 13. 2024

Saturday morning links

Nothing very interesting today. (Well, that turned out to be wrong)



Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 06:43 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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I think this is interesting...from Mark Perry at AEI:

The number of US breweries last year (12/31/2021) reached a new record high of 9,247, the greatest number of American beer makers going back to 1873 when the Brewers Association’s records start and there were 4,131 domestic breweries (see top chart above). Amazingly, the record brewery count in 2021 is almost a doubling of US breweries in just the last six years since 2015 when there were only 4,847 breweries, and more than four times the brewery count nine years ago of 2,252 in 2011.
#1 maddog on 2024-07-13 11:10 (Reply)
The causes of this are:
Federal and state laws being changed specifically to make this possible and to cut red tape in intrastate sales.
A dissatisfaction with the major beer companies and their products.
Some elite-ness.
Changes in advertising and visibility thanks to the internet.
#1.1 OneGuy on 2024-07-13 11:49 (Reply)
And people are consuming more alcohol these days to numb themselves to our current reality.
#1.1.1 Maniac on 2024-07-13 12:48 (Reply)
1873! Heck, there were only 53 states.
#1.2 B. Hammer on 2024-07-13 13:23 (Reply)
Just stopped at two different breweries in Oregon on a trip to the Evergreen Air and Space Museum. (And next door to the museum is a 747 that's been turned into a water park. Yeah, not something you expect to see...)

On this trip we've hit two really tasty breweries. The 'Crux Fermentation Project' in Bend, Oregon, and Santiam Brewing in Salem, Oregon.

I'm really glad to see all the microbreweries/eateries/pubs and the like springing up. Almost always the food will be excellent and the been really worth the time. They're usually more fun than stopping at one of the usual nationwide chains when travelling.

(I can also really recommend the B-17 Alliance museum at the airport there. They're attempting to restore a B-17 to flying condition that was on top of a gas station for roughly five decades. Don't know how successful they'll be, but I'll give 'em mad props for the attempt.)
#1.3 JLawson (Link) on 2024-07-13 16:48 (Reply)
All correct, OneGuy, thank you...plus, as Winston Churchill so eloquently remarked:

"they talk about my drinking, they never mention my thirst"
#2 maddog on 2024-07-13 12:30 (Reply)
The forger, the map-maker and the scrounger – the truth behind characters in The Great Escape

https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/the-truth-behind-some-of-the-characters-in-the-great-escape-film/
#3 feeblemind on 2024-07-13 14:03 (Reply)
The Ramming of HMS Prince George by HMS Hannibal, 1903

https://dawlishchronicles.com/2024/07/05/ramming-of-hms-prince-george-1903/
#4 feeblemind on 2024-07-13 14:09 (Reply)
That is a very nice boat. I would sail that almost anywhere.
#5 Stargazer on 2024-07-13 14:13 (Reply)
“Nothing very interesting today.” Boy, did that not age well!
#6 Anon on 2024-07-13 23:30 (Reply)
LOL

Great line.
#6.1 feeblemind on 2024-07-14 14:20 (Reply)
"How did you become the world's greates""TIMING."
#6.2 John Hyland on 2024-07-14 15:13 (Reply)

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