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welcome to the khatkee ride home for tuesday fe, February 23rd, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

Beer culture is overwhelmingly white, but its history and its present is not.

A historical look at the erasure of black brewers, the impact of pandemic boredom on the economy,

and a new app that will put David Attenborough in your living room to teach you about the

prehistoric world. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Whether you think about craft beers, home brewing, iconic Budweiser Super Bowl commercials,

or even frat parties, the image you probably conjure up is of white men, some more bearded

or fashionably dressed than the others, but generally pretty

homogenous. Every fall, there's more and more jokes about IPAs just being white men's

pumpkin spice lattes, the quick shorthand for white women's punitive lack of taste. But despite the

overarching image of whiteness when it comes to beer, there is a vast

history of black brewing culture, which, like so many things, has been largely erased from

both the history books and cultural consciousness. James Bennett II dove into this for a recent

piece in Eater. He acknowledges the huge influences of

German and Irish culture in America, but points out that's not the only source when it comes to

beer. Quoting Eater, the ancestors of African Americans, they were fermenters. They were

really good at making their own liquor and making their own beers and also making wine from

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