Posts Tagged: Beer Art, Language and Writing
The Oldest Beer Joke In History... But Wuzzit Mean?
Posted by on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 in - 6 comments
So they finally got to the bottom of a box of Iraqi cuneiform tablets dug up in 1976 and found some written by some guy trying to be funny as reported in the New York Daily News: • This one could also benefit from cranking up the laugh track: • “In your mouth and your teeth, constantly stared …
Booklet Review: "Why Beer Matters" By Evan Rail
Posted by on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 in - 3 comments
I got a review copy of Evan Rail's essay "Why Beer Matters" via email today. It's published for the Kindle and available at Amazon.com for an embarrassingly low price. Buy it. Why? Good question. Ever since his coming out party chez ici, he has been one of my favorite beer bloggers, a steady … read more »
Often The Messages About Good Beer Just Don't Matter
Posted by on Monday, January 23, 2012 in - 22 comments
Stan posted this four and a half minute video for Deschutes beer and I was surprised to find that I had an entirely different response to the thing than he did. I found it oddly creepy while he admitted he was "a sucker for these sorts of things." The strange thing I thought was how - for one of …
Day 23+8: And, So, We Have A Grand Champion Photo
Posted by on Monday, December 19, 2011 in - 7 comments
This year's photo contest has been a real treat. A great response from prize donors as well as a great response from you the readers. We had 39 entrants email photos in time and then three more try to get their pictures in after the deadline. We have awarded 22 prizes in all and now have just one …
How To Write A Good Review Of A Very Bad Thing
Posted by on Monday, December 5, 2011 in - 5 comments
Mr. B noted it the other day. We are indeed "seeing the maturing of the craft brewing industry and those who follow it." And by mature we mean critical. Problem is this - if we have been too nice, too obliging, too lacking of the critical eye - how do we go about being, you know, mature? Here is a …
Table Ring Anger And Forgetting About The Fun
Posted by on Thursday, November 17, 2011 in - 6 comments
I am not a professional beer writer and this column is a good example of why. Pete Brown achieves a balance in this column that I don't think I could in my writing - but it is a challenging one.... which is why it is a very good read: • ...I think this proves that you can perhaps take beer too …
I Think I Asked Joe "How Do We Value Beer Pr0n?"
Posted by on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 in - 4 comments
Joe had a good post this week about Chuck Cook self-publishing some information and photos he had gathered about Brasserie Dupont - and then putting being a click-through payment button offering access for $4.99. It is at the upper right at Chuck's blog if you want to go check it out. Joe … read more »
That Odd Tension: Wishing To Find Any Answer But Beer
Posted by on Monday, November 7, 2011 in - 2 comments
That's footnote 27 at page 134 of New Sweden in America which is exhibiting something between a quibble and a theme. It's actually in a chapter in that book, "Lenape Maize Sales to the Swedish Colonists: Cultural Stability during the Early Colonial Period" by Marshall Joseph Becker in which there …
And, Lo, A Prophet Proclaimed "Remember Knaust!"
Posted by on Friday, October 28, 2011 in - leave a comment
It is important to remember the unimportance of beer or rather its place as an aspect of pop culture that both pervades and yet lays below the surface. Jay reminds today us of both ends of that continuum. So, in another way, does Simon. Stan takes it one step further and tells the tale of Heinrich …
Inventing New Words To Describe Beer And Things Beery
Posted by on Sunday, September 18, 2011 in - 8 comments
The other day I noticed I have been making up a few more words and phrases to describe what I have been observing in the beer world. Not expecting Websters to give me a call anytime soon but they are useful tools for discussion. Here are a few: • ⋅ "fan pub" - a pub, tavern, bar that caters …
