Posts Tagged: Beer and Media
Paul Considers Shepherd Neame's Advertising
Posted by on Monday, October 8, 2007 in - 10 comments
George Orwell once said "Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket." This is how I feel about the way that Shepherd Neame advertises. Shepherd Neame brews pretty good beer, but I really do find their advertising very distasteful. Distasteful to the point where, I would recommend …
Stonch's New Campaign: Don't Sell Out Beer Bloggers
Posted by on Sunday, September 23, 2007 in - 18 comments
Stonch has posted a post this morning which reaches across the seas and around the world like some fantasy of an Old Testament minor prophet, like a mad white bearded cloaked (and maybe a little smelly) wannabe Obadiah. Heed ye his warning, oh, beerbloggerati! So sayeth the man: • “...Having …
Has A Glass Tipped Over? There's A Beer Story in Time!
Posted by on Thursday, September 13, 2007 in - 2 comments
If there are two concepts I hate they are tipping point and paradigm shift. Two pretty much overlapping ideas that boil down to over simplification. Real change, even when it appears sudden, develops over time and is based on a lot of factors. Well, I saw something today, while trolling Google for …
Ontario Good Beer Sales Up
Posted by on Tuesday, June 5, 2007 in - leave a comment
News from the LCBO, Canada's largest province's government owned alcohol retailer, came through the beer blog's email slot this morning: • “Ontario craft beer sales, helped by LCBO in-store promotional initiatives and dedicated staff to promote these products, rose by 27.6 per cent. Sales of …
Review: Beeradvocate Magazine, May 2007
Posted by on Sunday, May 27, 2007 in - 2 comments
The long Memorial Day long weekend trip has been going well. Yesterday at around 4:30 pm I was at the Beale Street BBQ in South Portland having a Gritty's Vacationland waiting for my bulk BBQ rib order to be ready. Less than an hour later I was in a grocery store trying to decide between Dogfish … read more »
Another Beer Column Is Born...Sorta
Posted by on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 in - 2 comments
It was good to see the "Life" section in this morning's edition of The Globe and Mail carry the story "Microbreweries raid the fruit aisle" by Beppi Crosariol. The new section had promised his wine and spirits coverage would be expanded to include beer allowing the Globe to catch up a little to … read more »
Evan Rail On The Trail Of Local German Beer
Posted by on Monday, May 21, 2007 in - 6 comments
I must have been overwhelmed by the gardening and snoozing and beer sipping this weekend as I failed to mention that our correspondent for central Europe, Evan Rail, had a good piece in The New York Times yesterday on the somewhat elusive local real ales and lagers of Germany. Other than the two …
CAMWA: The Campaign For Watery Ale
Posted by on Thursday, April 26, 2007 in - 6 comments
Two Nations Joined By Water • Why can't we admit it? We are all sitting around drinking flavoured water. We craft beer lovers like to pretend it is like wine, an art based on the manipulation fruit juice - but it ain't so. In a very real sense, fine beer is a far more crafted product than fine …
The New York Times Considers Brownness
Posted by on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 in - 4 comments
Our pal Lew Bryson wrangles another date with free beer at the New York Times, this time on brown ales.
Beer and Cheese Tastings
Posted by on Sunday, January 21, 2007 in - 7 comments
Yesterday The Globe and Mail ran a story about something being done reflecting the new world order in which beer is the new wine - a beer and cheese tasting in Vancouver: • “"It's something that's not done," he says. "But beer and cheese is a great combination because they're so different. A lot …
