Posts Tagged: About A Good Beer Blog And Its Readers
A Good Beer Symposium?
Posted by on Sunday, September 25, 2005 in - 9 comments
Ever since I picked up a couple annual editions of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, I have been wondering why such a thing does not exist for beer. We know that beer is a massive economic phenomena and that it is a pervasive habit. Yet, as far as I can tell, there is …
Googleriffic
Posted by on Sunday, August 14, 2005 in - 1 comment
I haven't checked the ranking hereabouts on Google for the one word search "beer". We had been in the 80s and 90s for a while. Today we are #22. Knut must be the reason.
The Stash
Posted by on Monday, August 8, 2005 in - 5 comments
The results of a trip south are often a slowly decreasing but merry little stash of singles in the closet and the fridge for the best part of a month as reviews get written. Sweet 1978 Rawlings, too. I am pretty sure I have only had two of the bottles previously, the McEwans Export and the …
Flatter Me
Posted by on Saturday, July 30, 2005 in - 3 comments
Short of sending gifts of pawning value, which I fully encourage, the best way to get mention around here is to flatter and fawn. Consider these two recent emails and the excellent example they set: • “Exhibit A: • Hi there Alan, was just hoping you could mention or link to my …
What is A Good Beer Blog?
Posted by on Sunday, June 12, 2005 in - 6 comments
On the off chance that you find this blog for the first time say...ummm...Monday...for some reason...here are a few tips: • Look around. Here are the archives by date and topic; • As an FYI, I do spell poorly and find I don't much care, though I do share your pain; • I have only recently put …
A Cry For Help!
Posted by on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 in - leave a comment
I am on the road this week in New England, gathering some information and ales for future postings so I have been pleased to receive a few emails that can spark some activity around here - including the offer of a Norwegian columnist! That would be excellent. • In one email, I received this cry …
Ale Shopping in Cambridge, Mass.
Posted by on Monday, March 21, 2005 in - 6 comments
This is a bit of a work in progress, having put a few feelers out there on the network of ale fans. I will be there in the next couple of weeks and would like to bring home a couple of months worth of good...postings. Yea, that's it. Good postings for you the reader. The best candidates so far …
A Busy Day
Posted by on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 in - leave a comment
What a busy day or so. You come fourth in the blog awards and the world is your oyster: • Two new authors have asked for admittance into the collegium that are the correspondents to this blog, Michael in Atlanta, USA and Matthew in Osaka, Japan. As always, the demands of correspondents are at …
Fourth Best
Posted by on Monday, January 17, 2005 in - leave a comment
A big thanks to all of you who voted for A Good Beer Blog which came fourth in the non-political blog category in the 2004 Canadian Blog Awards. Next year, the podium!
