Posts Tagged: Beer Art, Language and Writing
Good Beer Blog Poetry Entries And 24 Hours To Comment
Posted by on Thursday, April 12, 2007 in - leave a comment
Ok, now it is the readers turn. Here are the entries for the beer blog contest. Let me know what you thing: • Haiku by "mallace" - April 12. He came up with the idea for the poetry contest in the first place. He also won a prize in the last contest."Beer Run - An Epic Tale" by Captain Hops - 12 …
Another Day, Another Opportunity To Write A Beer Poem
Posted by on Monday, April 9, 2007 in - 2 comments
Yes, I do go on...poems, poems, poems. But I really need to have these tickets for free beer at TAP NY 2007 in the hands of those who will use them to drink free beer. Is that so wrong? Listen. I am the one around here who put in four good years of my life to get a BA in English Literature and I …
Richard Boston, 67, Beer Writer And Eccentric
Posted by on Sunday, December 31, 2006 in - leave a comment
I have just read that Richard Boston, one of the founders of the great river of interest in good beer (upon which this small blog plays the role of tiny canoe) passed away a few days before Christmas: • “Richard Boston, founder of one of Britain's first environmental magazines and a proponent of …
The Beer Prayer
Posted by on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 in - 2 comments
Steve Hales, a professor with the Department of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania and editor of the upcoming Beer and Philosophy forwarded this prayer - which is most apt, what with the wishes that go along with the upcoming New Year's Eve events and the inevitable remorse that …
Beery Travels and Books
Posted by on Saturday, December 2, 2006 in - 3 comments
It's good to be back and I have some beers I want to tell you about. But first just a word about what I've been up to. Shortly after my last post here I hopped on an airplane for England where I spent the better part of the month of September wandering from pub to pub collecting life experience … read more »
Reason #17 As To Why We Need Sponsorships
Posted by on Monday, October 16, 2006 in - 6 comments
This is what I am talking about. I would love to get a copy of this book but - wow! - one hundred and fifty-four clams. Don't get me wrong. A History of Brewing in Holland 900-1900: Economy, Technology and the State by Richard W. Unger (2001) would fit very nicely beside his next following text …
Pete Brown: The Interview
Posted by on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 in - 8 comments
I like my non-job here at A Good Beer Blog. One thing I get to do - other than never have a second beer of the same type - is meet interesting people involved with beer over the internet. Consider this exchange about beer and language between me and beer book author Pete Brown: • “Pete: Hi Alan …
Contest...A Good Beer Blog Contest!!!
Posted by on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 in - 26 comments
Well, I told you I get emails and last week I got a good one from Kim Frankel of Rock Ridge Music out of New York, New York. Kim asked if I would be interested in the band Psychostick which has just released their first CD We Couldn't Think of a Title and their single entitled "Beer". Why yes … read more »
<i>Beers Of The World</i> Magazine
Posted by on Sunday, September 10, 2006 in - leave a comment
I picked up issue #7 of Beers of the World magazine the other day. It is a UK journal pretty much geared for the English market. This places the North American reader at a disadvantage from the get-go with the subject matter centered elsehere. The magazine has a website which has yet to update to …
Beer Quote Of The Week
Posted by on Friday, April 28, 2006 in - 1 comment
I went to undergrad with Trevor so I am glad to report this, our quote of the week: • “"Every week we see improvements in Trevor's recovery — sometimes big, sometimes little ..." Debbie blogged. She wrote that a nurse remarked to Greene: "Wow, you can sure suck back the water!" • "Having said …
