Beer
topic on 4 shows · 10 statements across 8 episodes
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Wingstop sold beer specifically to anchor an adult concept and higher prices
“And in the early stores too, I sold beer, but it was like three percent of the sales, but I put beer in the store to position the concept as an adult concept and not fast food. Because I wanted people to think of it as a place where it's okay to spend more mon…”
Khaitan: Mumbai is the most expensive Indian market to launch alcohol brands
“Mumbai is the costliest. Any city, like if you want to launch his beer from Mumbai, as a startup, it's very tough. The kind of money it burns, like, you know, it like I addressed Mumbai the last. It's the most expensive market.”
Shenoy: Beer is the hardest alcohol to produce because flaws cannot hide
“That's why beer is the hardest because you have no room to hide. You're just doing pure fermentation. It's the hardest thing to do because you make a mistake. Anybody will catch.”
Jim Koch: Beer, wine, and spirits are acquired tastes counter to biology
“Alcohol is basically divided into three realms. There's beer, There's wine and there's hard liquor or spirits. And those are three lanes. Okay. And an insight about that is, you know, they're all acquired tastes. They all have a flavor structure that as human …”
Jim Koch: Hard cider outsold beer in America before the Civil War
“Beer was not always the number one alcoholic beverage in the United States. Before the Civil War, then, the number one alcoholic beverage was hard cider. And beer displaced it, you know, after the Civil War for a bunch of reasons.”
Deadly Pathogens Cannot Grow in Beer
“Well, I guess one of the things about beer making is that things like that don't grow in beer.
[584] Guy Raz: I gotcha.
[585] Guy Raz: Okay, fine.
[586] Guy Raz: Good to know.
[586] Ken Grossman: The alcohol, the pH, and the hops are all inhibitory to
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Jordan: Brewing requires both gut instinct and science due to crop variations
“One of the things that I always want to remind people, though, is that beer is food. It's an agricultural product, and so you have changes in the characteristic of a hop, or the malt bill because, you know, it was a wet It was a dry year, so it really is an ar…”
Jim Koch: Imported beers in the U.S. were almost always stale
“Beer has about a four to five month shelf life, and the imported beers were almost always stale.”
Chen: Otto demonstrated autonomous commercial beer delivery in October 2016
“When it becomes cheap to drive, you'll have beer drive itself from the brewery to the store, which our friends at Auto already showed in October of 2016.”