Posts Tagged: Beer Art, Language and Writing
Selective Readings From Some Article In Slate
Posted by on Friday, May 17, 2013 in - 5 comments
In ten years of writing about beer, I have to admit the reaction to the article "Against Hoppy Beer" in Slate yesterday by author Adrienne So is one of the oddest over reactions to something written about beer that I think I have ever seen. As others have done to make each of their own cases for a …
Has Discontent Struck Good Beer In A Time of Plenty?
Posted by on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 in - 6 comments
A little bird, or rather an email correspondent, who was present advised me that at the recent Craft Brewer Conference there was a closed session at which at least one well placed big-mid-sized Midwest brewer "sure made for good entertainment at the voting members session of the CBC- you know, the …
Is It Time For A Return To The Way of Shale?
Posted by on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 in - leave a comment
I was deeply saddened to read the news from ATJ this morning as I woke with another.. another... crappy chest cold: • As for the beer brewed over here (a US version will be made later in the year with Wells’ yeast — get to the Philly Beer Week in June for the launch), there I was listening …
Book Review: Triplebock - Three Beer Stories, Evan Rail
Posted by on Monday, April 1, 2013 in - 1 comment
As I mentioned, our old pal Evan has written another ebook, Triplebock. So far, he has given us perhaps more sorts of writing than any other of voice in good beer. Because he is, you see, a pretty busy writer and, perhaps, a more diverse writer that most others as his bio Amazon.com reveals …
The Sort Of Inn That I Wish Was On My Street
Posted by on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 in - 2 comments
Noodling around the internet for ideas the other day I came across this reference to an unfamiliar form of inn the book Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy: • Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-licence; hence, as … read more »
Are Contract Brewers Posing As Gypsy Brewers?
Posted by on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 in - 39 comments
Because we are having so much fun with terminology and meaning, I thought I would mention this: • As the name suggests, all the breweries involved, save for one (the host), are gypsy brewers. The Brewers Association (BA) defines this type of brewery as a contract brewing company—essentially a …
What Is "Upscale" And Why Do I Want It?
Posted by on Thursday, January 17, 2013 in - 9 comments
Surfing around the beer news articles on Google News I came across the odd headline "BEER: Raleigh’s New Yardhouse Is Pricy But Upscale". I would have thought the "but" might have been an "and" and the story was about something unfortunate. As I read, I realized I was wrong: • If you’re looking …
More New Words For Things Beer and Beery
Posted by on Saturday, January 5, 2013 in - 11 comments
Out of all the fuss over the foolish "craft v. crafty" PR embarrassment for the Brewers Association has come some amazingly level heading thinking about terms and terminology in response. Just look at Twitter this morning. In September 2011, I proposed new words but think we can now nail down a …
Attribution, Copyright Infringement And Plagiarism!!!
Posted by on Friday, December 28, 2012 in - 2 comments
Yike-ee doodles. Hot stuff going on in the wine world. Long knives, too. And it is all centered around the otherwise dull and a little frowsy province of Ontario... where I live. What is it all about? Here is the original salvo from the website Palate Press from 15 December 2012: • The core of …
Differing Interpretations Of Half-Robed Lassies With Beer
Posted by on Thursday, December 27, 2012 in - 4 comments
Evan tweeted about a photo this morning of a poster of a breastfeeding French mother from maybe the last of the 1800s or the first bit of the 1900s. It's the one up there to the left. It got me speculating about the actual message being conveyed. We have all seen these sorts of beer for health …
