Posts Tagged: Beer Art, Language and Writing
Another Great Way To Promote Great Beer...At Your Library!
Posted by on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 in - 1 comment
Hunting for an interesting story between the trickers and the treaters, I came across this blurb on how one beer brewers club has advanced the great cause of great beer: • “One of the main reasons the Portland system has such a vast collection is because Fred Eckhardt, the dean of American beer …
Your Mid-Autumn Beer Magazine Update
Posted by on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 in - 32 comments
...nice flooring... • I have written about beer magazines before but a recent stop at a book store made me realize that there are more magazines out there than ever and that it was maybe time to do some comparing. And, along with that, some consideration of what the deal is as I've always …
A Brewery, A Literary Tour And Another World All In One
Posted by on Monday, October 15, 2007 in - 10 comments
Her: I sure hope no one mentions this ever again. • Him: Me, too. How unlike us. Best to bottle it up. Pass me another. • An interesting combination of two of my interests may well come together in Nymburk, some 30 kilometers east of Prague, where a brewery, Postřižinský Pivovar, helps … read more »
The Pub Game Project: Name This Painting Of Drunken Flems
Posted by on Monday, October 8, 2007 in - 4 comments
As a lad, in a state of utter unknowingness, I went to Belgium and drank Jupiler and Guinness. Again, for that I am truly sorry. I also went to the National Gallery and had a look at the Bosches and the Breugels before Jupiler outlets opened. • But for the life of me I can't figure out the name …
Stonch, Ron, Garrett And A Question Of Evidence
Posted by on Saturday, October 6, 2007 in - 5 comments
I have a confession. I have little or no interest in beer styles whatsoever. All I care about is that a particular beer tastes good, has interestingly depths, that the layers of depth contain clues to both its ingredients and history, that it is consistently made, is tweekable - and can be … read more »
Will I Spend Christmas In Baltimore?
Posted by on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 in - 7 comments
Can it be? I never thought there was a chance I would spend some of my Christmas holidays In Baltimore but I got this email yesterday: • “Dear Contributors: • I'm delighted to tell you that our publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, will be hosting a launch party for Beer and Philosophy and the companion …
Sad News Of Michael Jackson's Passing
Posted by on Thursday, August 30, 2007 in - 6 comments
Sad news from Stan who is reporting the passing of Michael Jackson, the English beer writer who taught so much to so many of we beer geeks. Tonight, in his memory, you might raise a very good glass of one of the many somethings his writings illuminated for you. • Lew's recollections are quite …
A Check For A Short Beer
Posted by on Sunday, July 29, 2007 in - 8 comments
As you know, we get emails around here with all sorts of inquiries about this and that. Recently someone suggested that the world would be better if I posted his opinion piece on something. No thanks. Plenty of days, mixed in with the Nigerian scams there are offers to promote someone else's web …
Respect Your Hefeweizen
Posted by on Monday, June 18, 2007 in - 9 comments
Like Stonch, I have been adding to my relationship with beer through running a nano-brewery in the kitchen. While I have no beer cam (yet), it's great fun as brewing gets you close to the ingredients and give you some insights into what craft brewers are doing and doing for you. • So I ordered a …
Beer Blog Poetry Contest Winners
Posted by on Sunday, April 15, 2007 in - leave a comment
I sat down to have a proper read of these entries and was quite surprised by a couple of things. First, you did your work. While some of the entries are clearly by people who write poems more than others, the effort was clearly there. Second - and perhaps more interesting - was the thematic …
