{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"NG-004 Next Germination \u2014 Lost in Translation","description":"Past is prelude, as they say, and it\u2019s always interesting to find foreshadowings of our contemporary beer culture deep in the history books. Take monastery breweries, for example, which are some of the oldest beer makers in the world, with a tradition going back a thousand years or more. But not all monastery breweries date back quite so far. In fact, new ones are still opening up today\u2014not often, of course, but at least occasionally, as at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey in Leicestershire, England, which only started brewing its beer, called Tynt Meadow, in 2018. In this episode, I\u2019m talking to the beer writer Mark Dredge, who published a Signifier, \u201cThe More You Master Something, the More Free You Feel,\u201d about the new monastery brewery at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey on October 19, 2022. But that\u2019s not the only story Mark has done for us recently. His article \u201cLost in Translation \u2014 How Flavor Wheels and Tasting Tools Can Evolve to Speak with Global Beer Drinkers\u201d was published on August 18, as part of our Next Germination series, made in partnership with Guinness.  If monastic brewing has centuries of backstory, then the topic of \u201cLost in Translation\u201d\u2014tasting notes, and the way we describe flavors in beer\u2014is a much newer practice. As Mark explains, the comparative language we use to describe flavor mostly originated in the wine world in the 1970s. His story explores this evolution, and also questions how relevant those words and terms are for someone on a different continent, or in a different culture.  In this episode, we delve into both of Mark\u2019s recent stories, and explore the possibility of updating flavor wheels and tasting tools for more modern\u2014and more diverse\u2014audiences. We also discuss monastic brewing, the rigors of monastic life, and Mark\u2019s abiding interest in running, which leads into another article he\u2019s been working on for us. ","author_name":"Good Beer Hunting","author_url":"https:\/\/www.goodbeerhunting.com\/gbh-podcast\/","html":"