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10-03-2016, 09:59
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We’re working on an article about mild in the 21st century, research for which prompted this statement in an email from Andy Smith at Partizan:The beer was originally simply called mild… We then decided to rebrand as X… This worked OK*but not as well as we’d hoped. It was at this stage we put dinosaurs on the label and sales rocketed! I kid you not. It sells as well if not better now as our other dark beers. Dinosaurs! Now we spend our weekends hearing how cute the dinosaurs are (recently changed) and *answering the question what is X?
That’s funny, of course, but also made us think,*‘Huh. So craft beer drinkers are like children?’
We’ve observed before, as has almost everyone else who’s written a tedious think-piece on the subject, that craft beer in cans has been successful partly because they are tactile and colourful, bright and toy-like. Beavertown Brewery’s cartoon-laden designs in particular suggest material for an (admittedly slightly weird) animated series and also make them look like a bit like soft drinks. (Gamma Ray more so than this example we have at hand.)
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And sometimes, with fruit and residual sweetness and novelty*flavourings and higher carbonation, the hippest beers can taste a bit like soft drinks too.
Of course we checked ourselves fairly promptly: one person’s infantile is, of course, another person’s fun, and we understand that you humans enjoy this emotion fun is good.
And even if it is infantile, is that a bad thing?*One key reason*people drink is to reduce*the pressures of adult life and the pub is where*grown-ups*go to play.
This is a question we’re going to have in mind from now on, though, especially when we find ourselves considering the generation gap between real ale culture and craft beer. (Def 2. (http://boakandbailey.com/guides-lists/when-we-say-craft-beer-we-mean/))
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