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READ SOME JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINATED BEER WRITING!

The 2022 James Beard Media Award Nominees. It’s amazing to see so much socially conscious beer journalism nominated for top honors! Congrats to:

• Theresa McCulla who was nominated for Patsy Young — American Brewer, Fugitive From Slavery, published by Good Beer Hunting. 
• James Bennett II who was nominated for ‘We’re Reclaiming Beer Because It’s Ours’, published by Eater. 
• Jamaal Lemon who was nominated for his three part series beginning with Tek Cyear uh de Root, Part One — The Schützenfest, Black Endurance, and Beer Culture in Old South Charleston, published by Good Beer Hunting.
• Big congrats to Michael Kiser & Claire Bullen at Good Beer Hunting, too, they’re doing amazing work with their journos.

WHAT CAN YOU SKIP STUDYING FOR THE ADVANCED CICERONE EXAM?

We 3 ACs answer your FAQs, including: what areas are less important to prep? What knowledge areas make the biggest difficulty leap from CC to AC? And what do the Keeping & Serving and Beer Ingredients & Brewing Process sections focus on? If you have any CC or AC FAQs, hit reply and maybe it’ll be our next topic! Don’t forget to subscribe to the Beer Scholar channel while you’re on YouTube!  

CHECK OUT THE 2022 WOMEN’S INTERNAT’L BEER SUMMIT

The WIBS yearly event happened last weekend. If you missed it, you can watch ALL 39 panels for $25 here. Some highlights include: the “Making Noise” panel featuring Brienne Allen, Ruvani de Silva, Jen Blair, & Ren Navarro; two separate panels about improving beer tasting skills, one by MC Nicole Erny and another by AC Jen Blair; & a “Content Creators” panel featuring Megan Stone, Sarah Flora, Eugenia Brown, & Kerri Brown who between them have >100k followers! The full list of panels is here. 

WHAT DO GLASS RINSERS REALLY DO ANYWAY?

Why rinse a glass before pouring beer into it? If you were asked on a Cicerone exam to give the 3 main reasons, would the answer be on the tip of your tongue? This quick read is a solid summary.  

WHAT I’M LISTENING TO

Ryan Celsius Sounds on YouTube. Ryan Celsius is a DC based mash up artist and DJ who does super slick phonk and lo fi hip hop. He adds to that very dope video mixes of anime, 90’s TV shows, and first person footage of people walking around mostly in Japanese cities. It’s absolutely badass. His Trappin’ in Japan mixes are the most popular.  

Have a lovely weekend, y'all!

Chris