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Again With The PR Emails Or... "Dear Travis"
Posted by on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 in - 4 comments
Just so you don't get me wrong, I am happy when one of my guest writers get noticed - don't get me wrong. And I am even happy when my, umm, cranky blurts over new media PR miscues get others talking. But this email received this afternoon from a new media publicist has got to be the pinnacle of …
Travis Tries A Kerberos Tripel By Flying Dog
Posted by on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 in - 21 comments
A few weeks ago I was the lucky recipient of a wonderful package; a bottle of brew! Not just any brew, but a Belgian beer! I love the Belgian brews. Flying Dog beer mailed me bottle of their Kerberos Tripel. • The fourth member of their Canis Major series, the Flying Dog Kerberos¹ Tripel is a …
Travis Probes Two Belgium Influenced US-made Ales
Posted by on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 in - 6 comments
Living in Upstate New York has its advantages, namely great beer. Ommegang is a leader in craft brewing that is delivering some of the finest state-side Belgian beers. Located in beautiful Cooperstown New York, this is a destination worth making planning a trip around. But one of the unfortunate …
The Anonymous Brewers Speak: Rating The Raters
Posted by on Saturday, April 12, 2008 in - 44 comments
“From Alan: Recently I was contacted by a brewer who wondered if he, too, could write for A Good Beer Blog. Sure, no problem I thought. If Knut and Travis can, why not a craft brewer? But the brewer wanted to do it under the cloak of anonymity. I wavered. I wondered. I let it go for a while …
Triples: Kerberos, Flying Dog, Frederick, Maryland, USA
Posted by on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 in - 1 comment
Stan brought me this one, triggered I think by this conversation instigated by Travis, developing into a bit of a pile-on but joined in by Josh of Flying Dog before it got channeled into a consideration of the concept of styles. All that and here was I never having tried one. • On the pour, this …
Back From The Eastern Midwest - And What Did I Learn?
Posted by on Saturday, August 15, 2009 in - leave a comment
I don't know that I learned anything. Maybe that faux Amish beards are in with brewers. A lot of the guys at the two breweries I hit between single A baseball games and small town diners, Dark Horse and Jolly Pumpkin, were sporting variations of big bear face. Looked a lot like a reunion of … read more »
Last Call...For Beer Poems
Posted by on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 8 comments
Today is the day, 4 pm this afternoon is the hour. Get your poems in today to be eligible for the free tickets for free craft beer at TAP NY 2007. We are looking for 50 words or three connected stanzas of haiku. I will announce the champ and champ-in-waiting quickly so I can get the tickets in the …
Portrait Of Wegman's As A Beer Store
Posted by on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 in - 7 comments
...very near cheeses just like these... • Wegman's is quite a wonderful chain of grocery stores in central and western NY state, and Alan has mentioned them here before. Last month they greatly expanded their micro brews selection in their Ithaca, NY store - near the cheese - and it appears to … read more »
Session 12: Tomorrow Is Now And Barley Wine Is It
Posted by on Thursday, January 31, 2008 in - 6 comments
A few years ago, before most of you knew what a beer blog was, I posted a post with a list of the names of barley wines that would be available at a certain beer fest. My favorites in the list were Fish Leviathan, Lagunitas Old Gnarlywine and Winthrop Buzzards Breath. I've never had any of these …
A Run To Northern New York On The First Warm Evening
Posted by on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 in - 3 comments
I saw two shooting stars last night • I wished on them but they were only satellites • Is it wrong to wish on space hardware • I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care... • Billy Bragg, 1983 • On the way back from the three-hour round trip beer run, I stopped at Gananoque in the Thousand … read more »
Review: The Kegerator Portfolio
Posted by on Thursday, March 22, 2007 in - 3 comments
This post is my sixth effort for the ReviewMe service which I have signed up A Good Beer Blog for and through which good folks like they of the Kegerator forward some funds for a review of their beer-related web-based business. • I have to admit from the start that I have never bought a keg of …
Speaking Of Helpful And Useful Beer Bloggers
Posted by on Monday, February 18, 2008 in - 6 comments
I think my wants and needs converge in that mug • Speaking of good positive beer blogging, Evan Rail has been on something of a tear over in Prague since the New Year began. I don't think that it is just his access to a pub culture and beers that I lack that makes it such good reading - it's …
One US Presidential Candidate Rejects "Designer Beer"
Posted by on Monday, March 31, 2008 in - 3 comments
Being Canadian, it really isn't my place to comment upon the politics of my southern cousins but this little tidbit is a bit shocking, is it not? • “"You know I got a beer down there. What do they call it.. a Yuengling?" Obama said to a local man. • "Yuengling! Like you didn’t know," the guy …
Mmmmm... I Love Material In My Beer
Posted by on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 in - 5 comments
It's not so much a material I get to taste as a material that removes other material to make a material difference to beer. Makes sense? Me neither - here's the story: • A material that could lead to beer with significantly longer shelf life has been designed by researchers. The approach works … read more »
Book Review: The Naked Pint, Perozzi and Beaune
Posted by on Monday, November 9, 2009 in - 3 comments
I got my review copy of The Naked Pint by Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune the other day. Didn't get twelve emails telling me to get it, either. Didn't get co-opted into the battle against big beer or nuttin'. I just sent Christina a message by Twitter and there it was. So civilized. • I like …
The 2009 Yule Beer Blog Photo Contest Is Launched!
Posted by on Monday, November 16, 2009 in - 1 comment
It was 12 months today that I last wrote those words... except for the 2009 of course. Hard to believe that this is the fourth annual photo contest. Here are the 2008 winners, here are the best from 2007 and look way back here for the best of the first year in 2006. That is the 2009's Grand …
Thanks To Our Google Reader Subscribers
Posted by on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 in - 7 comments
Nothing deep or profound this evening. Just a thanks to the readers and, tonight, especially those on Google Reader. After six years of beer blogging, it has become harder to figure out how many people actually follow a blog given those followers on various aggregating services. But one, Google …
Joints: Collaboration Not Litigation, Avery / Russian River
Posted by on Thursday, December 3, 2009 in - 1 comment
What to call these beers? For the last few years, brewers have been getting together to make something new together. This one has a deeper back story than most but the point is the same. In the end they are joint projects, opportunities to get together, to share and learn. And no doubt to have a …
One Way To Not Promote Craft Beer All That Well
Posted by on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 in - 6 comments
I was pleased to see Canada's other national newspaper, The National Post, feature some information about craft breweries in Ontario but was a bit saddened to see the odd approach that was chosen - five generic questions leading to an opportunity to trigger five Pavlovian advertising copy …
I Have Never Really Bothered With The Pour
Posted by on Thursday, February 11, 2010 in - 6 comments
There are many things that can get attached to an idea or experience. I presume the more precious or particular the key advice, the more likely you are dealing with a barnacle that needs scraping off the hull of your given ship of life.. or a consultant hunting for someone to bill. Like this … read more »
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