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Yesterday, Alan Sprints of Hair of the Dog<\/a><\/strong> (HotD) passed away aged 66. He had announced his illness publicly earlier this year.<\/p>\n

I never met Alan and I never went to any of the HotD locations \u2013 he and I were Facebook friends for a number of years FWIW. If I\u2019m honest, I didn\u2019t much care for the beers that Alan made, but that\u2019s at least part of the reason that I wanted to write this tiny note.<\/p>\n

From everything that I have read, and all of the beer people that I have spoken over the years, it became apparent that Alan did things pretty much exclusively on his own terms. In a interview with Jeff Alworth he once described himself as a contrarian. As such, I felt a mild kinship with him.<\/p>\n

For me, Alan\u2019s beer was difficult, a bit of an effort, and that\u2019s not something that I ever wanted in most of my beer consumption. Of course my preferences \u2013 in fact nobody\u2019s preferences<\/em> \u2013 were any concern of his, he simply brewed the beer that he wanted to brew. I came to admire that in him (and by extension his beer) immensely, especially as brewers of late have continually bent to the latest trends in manners that I suspect they know is compromising their standards and their principles. Alan didn\u2019t ever do that as far as I could tell. Alan will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n

On more than one occasion I said to people that if I owned a brewery it would be most like Hair of the Dog, not because I wanted to brew like Alan. but rather because I would bloody well do what I chose and screw the rest. I have no idea if that\u2019s what Alan was really like, but that\u2019s the impression I got from afar, and I was delighted by it. For those reasons, and the fact that he was one of the OGs, I will always think of him and HotD kindly.<\/p>\n

One final note. In 2022 I wrote<\/a><\/strong> that when HotD and Stone almost simultaneously \u201cfinished\u201d in their own respective ways it was really hard not to draw a comparison between the two endings. As I said at the time these were definitely not apples-to-apples comparisons, but juxtapositioned they offered a stark and interesting contrast to the way two West Coast legends disappeared over the horizon. Godspeed.<\/p>\n

There will be a ton of tributes out there, this one<\/strong><\/a> by is Ezra<\/strong> Johnson-Greenough<\/strong><\/a> is rather nice and ends with a great quote from Alan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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