CL-030 Stan Hieronymus has a lot of bottle openers to tell you about
Welcome to the Good Beer Hunting Collective podcast, the show where members of our team interview each other to get a behind-the-scenes look at some of our favorite articles. I\u2019m Bryan Roth, and I\u2019m the Sightlines editor for Good Beer Hunting.\xa0
Whether you\u2019re a beer drinker or an industry pro, chances are you may have heard someone talking about \u201cinnovation\u201d in beer. Usually, that means a brewery is releasing a new beer, sometimes a new style it hasn\u2019t made before, or using a novel technique, or ingredient. It\u2019s a word that gets thrown around a lot for a product that\u2019s existed for, well, thousands of years. That\u2019s not to take away from all the incredible changes, old and new, that take place in beer\u2014but in today\u2019s Collective podcast, we\u2019re talking about literal invention.
In his latest piece for Good Beer Hunting, Stan Hieronymus shares the story, \u201cThere\u2019s a Beer Patent for That \u2014 A Brief History of Curious Beer Ideas.\u201d It\u2019s his second story for Good Beer Hunting\u2019s Mother of Invention series, which is told in collaboration with Guinness. In his story on patents, Stan looks at the history of beer, and the variety of people who have applied to get their creations protected through a longstanding government process. It's a way to ensure that a creator\u2019s ideas and intellectual property stay with them.
Stan pored over a treasure trove of beer patents to find the examples he shares in his story. Many were tracked down thanks to fellow writer Jay Brooks, who maintains a running collection of beer-related patents on his blog. Along with discussions with GBH editorial director Austin L. Ray (which also led to a previous piece on hop oils), it was Jay\u2019s digital cache that set Stan on his way in telling this story.
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