The archived blog mixed seasonal shop notes with a few process posts worth keeping. This index lists the rewritten essays. Product-review URLs such as a branded system review 301 to equipment. Spirit posts 301 to legal. Cheese posts 301 to the home page because they are outside this niche.
If you arrived from or a display-table variant, that messy address has already 301ed. You are on the clean index now.
Kept threads
The kept slugs are process: yeast, kegs, clubs, heat source, foam, cider, grain storage. They occupy the same paths they occupied in 2015–2017 so inbound links still land on writing.
The dropped threads were shop notes and spirit talk. A branded system “review” is now an equipment explainer. A spirits category post is legal.
How this index relates to /blog/
is the information-architecture name. is the heritage name. Both list the same posts. Both carry the fleet footer. Neither is a newsroom with invented events.
If you want the long form, leave the log. The library is the shelf.
Why heritage slugs matter
Inbound links and human memory still use and its siblings. Keeping those paths with new writing is the redirect policy’s other half: not everything should 301. Real editorial URLs stay.
Messy siblings — embed views, , accidents — do 301. You should never see those strings in the address bar after the first hop.
What a 2016 post is allowed to be in 2026
It is allowed to teach a lever. It is not allowed to sell a tin. It is not allowed to invent a festival that happened in a year we did not witness. It is not allowed to teach distillation. Those constraints are why the kept set is small and why the sentences are new.
The modern IA name for this index is blog. Use either. They list the same essays, carry the same footer disclaimer, and refuse the same shop voice.
If you are indexing this site for a citation, prefer the guide URLs for method and this path only for the short levers. A yeast post is not a substitute for the beginners guide. A keg post is not a substitute for the kegging hub. The blog is the margin note. The library and the IA guides are the book. That division is how a former retailer domain becomes citeable without pretending it still has a weekly shop column.
The kept posts are short on purpose. They should send you back to beginners, kegging, cider and mead, or legal — not into a third list of products. If a post ever sounds like a catalogue, it has drifted and should be edited. The archive already made that mistake once.
Read yeast if the airlock is lying. Read kegs if bottles have worn you out. Read clubs if you want other palates and a reminder you are not a bottle shop. Read gas-or-electric if the room is the constraint. Read foam if the glass is greasy. Read cider if the next sugar is juice. Read grain storage if the pantry is the problem. Then go back to a long guide. That is the whole heritage blog, rebuilt without the shop voice.
A final note for people arriving from a 2016 bookmark: the sentences are new, the slugs are old, and the shop is gone. That is the honest version of “the blog is back.” If you wanted a price, there is none. If you wanted a method, the index above is the door.