On Sep 17, 8:01 pm, MikeMcG wrote:
On 17 Sep, 17:19, "John S." wrote:





On Sep 17, 12:10 pm, wrote:

John S. wrote:
most of us
consider german brewers to be the cartographers for the beer making
business.

"Most"? When did "we" take that poll? g

I think that the centuries of german brewing history and standard
setting allows them to be considered cartographers, and I suspect that
most of us would agree. Present company excepted of course. Not to
say that brewers in other countries don't produce fine innovative
products because they clearly do. But the german brewing industry has
had such an impact on brewing practices for such a long time that they
clearly wrote the map.

Well if the Germans are cartographers, the Egyptians must be the
creators of the papyrus paper that the map centuries later were to be
written on?

(I think the map analogy has plenty of life in it yet :~)

I actually think it's impossible to say which nation had more of an
impact on the 'beer map' - (leaving aside Mesopotamia, Sumeria, Egypt,
etc) there's Belgium, England, CzechRep, Germany, etc - they've all
had a huge impact on the progression of quality beer production, or on
the variety of styles, or on encouraging us to see beer as a thing to
be valued. I don't agree that Germany has any more right to the crown
than several others.
cheers
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I actually agree that no one country wrote the map - many were
involved over a long time. I was trying to make a point about the
absurdity of the OP saying his beer fest would put Germany back on the
beer map.