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Michael Jackson: The Beer Writer Who Changed the World

Ted Child • June 25, 2019

If you were given the unenviable task of picking the single most important person to modern beer, it might seem odd that it is a writer’s name rather than a brewer or brewery founder’s that you keep coming back to. […]

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Saisons come full circle

Joe Wiebe • April 1, 2019

When the British beer writer Michael Jackson first began writing about Belgian beer culture in the 1970s, he found very few examples of saisons in existence. By the early 1990s he even described the style as “endangered.” But he loved […]

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