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Process Refresh in Beer Land!
I sat on a wobbly bar stool and lit a cigarette. I was tired from all the travel but so energized from my new surroundings that a beer...

Allison Beer Land
Jun 242 min read


Morning After Apologies in Beer Land!
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Allison Beer Land
Feb 141 min read


Marketing in Beer Land!
There really is something special about seeing people drink your beers in the wild. On a beautiful day, at the ballpark with the sun...

Allison Beer Land
Jan 222 min read


Career Counseling in Beer Land!
What to write about this time?! Should I write about the time I took a pod of jelly fish to the face while ascending during a scuba dive...

Allison Beer Land
Nov 28, 20244 min read


Crowlers and Growlers in Beer Land!
Oh yeah, this was nice. I was so cozy, so comfortable. I was in my super soft bed in my small yet comfortable apartment in Memphis. I had...

Allison Beer Land
Nov 15, 20242 min read


Canning in Beer Land!
Are you sure it's legal for me to drive here? I asked. “Yeah, you should be fine” he replied. We will call him Gen Z. Gen Z was easily my...

Allison Beer Land
Nov 14, 20243 min read


Bottling in Beer Land!
This is how it always turns out for me. Battling the engineers. On some level I'm sure it's like the age ol adage of 'form over function'...

Allison Beer Land
Nov 13, 20243 min read


Kegging in Beer Land!
It was open mic night at the brewery when he came up to me. I had heard about him. We will call him Boy #2 and he was the brewer. At...

Allison Beer Land
Nov 12, 20242 min read


Packaging in Beer Land!
Alright, here we go again brewers. One door closes and another opens. This time to central America, Costa Rica and Nicaragua to be exact....

Allison Beer Land
Nov 11, 20243 min read


Metallic or Tin-like in Beer Land!
Brewery work meant mashing in on brew days or cleaning and packaging on other days. I implemented a production calendar in half...

Allison Beer Land
Aug 30, 20243 min read


Isoamyl Acetate in Beer Land!
When Mai and Mike first began selling his beers in the taproom, craft beer had not really existed in Vietnam. As I sort of explained...

Allison Beer Land
Aug 26, 20243 min read


Dimethyl Sulfide in Beer Land!
In those early days, when I first got to Saigon, the tap room, it seemed that it wasn't really a cohesive idea yet. They saw the business...

Allison Beer Land
Aug 21, 20243 min read


Dihydrogen Sulfide in Beer Land!
We sold the beer in kegs out of the tap room on Do Quang Dau at first and quickly expanded from there. Mike's western home-brew buddies...

Allison Beer Land
Aug 14, 20244 min read


Diacetyl in Beer Land!
The evening before our first meeting with the marketing group, trouble struck. It finally happened. Everyone had warned me that I would...

Allison Beer Land
Aug 11, 20242 min read


Acetaldehyde in Beer Land!
The next morning, after an ample night's rest and another lovely English breakfast, we left for the brewery in the countryside. I was...

Allison Beer Land
Aug 9, 20246 min read


Acetic Acid in Beer Land!
BANG, BANG, BANG! I sat straight up. Where was I? The room was dark and it took a minute to adjust. BANG, BANG, BANG! Vietnam. Someone...

Allison Beer Land
Aug 7, 20245 min read


Off Flavor Sources in Beer Land!
Siiigh. I was tired. It, as usual, had been a long day at the brewery. It was dry season in Can Gio, just before Tet, but it had been...

Allison Beer Land
Aug 7, 20245 min read


Establishing a Sensory Panel in Beer Land!
I hadn't been in Saigon long when I discovered Spare rib guy. Spare rib guy worked off a charcoal grill in an alley off Ðo Quang Ðau in...

Allison Beer Land
Jul 21, 20242 min read


Tasting Beer in Beer Land!
Sensory analysis has always been my thing. As a scientist, since the year 1991 to be precise. That's the year that I won second place in...

Allison Beer Land
Jul 4, 20243 min read


Flavorings in Beer Land!
This place is nice, I thought. As a beer person, I didn't have that much exposure to wine. I mean, I knew a little, but not a lot. Now,...

Allison Beer Land
Jun 28, 20244 min read