About
The columns
Column pieces are drafted by AI from Hop Grail's register of TTB label filings, then edited, fact-checked and approved one by one by Curtis Vaughan, who is accountable for them.
The Style Ledger
A month of one style: which labels were approved, and how that month's mix sits next to the month before.
The Register Desk
What is on file for one brewery: how many labels, which styles, and where the record has a gap.
A column never tastes a beer, never writes in the first person, and never claims a release date from a filing. An approval date is the day the label was approved.
A correction is noted at the bottom of the piece, with the date.