Posts Tagged: Beer and Media
Why Can't We All Just Get Along With Our Alströms?
Posted by on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 in - 17 comments
There is a good article today in The Boston Globe about the brothers Alström and their baby BeerAdvocate. The article's alarmingly lax about the application of the umlauted "o" - the "ö" - but it's good anyway... yet when I got into it I started to get a bit verklempt: • "We definitely have …
The Beer Snob V. The Beer Nut
Posted by on Thursday, June 11, 2009 in - 3 comments
It's been on of the most gratifying things since I took up the task of dealing with my malty dipsomania in the internet that the scourge of snobbery has been kept at bay. One of the funniest attempts lately is the oddly modestly priced Spanish fluid dubbed Inedit which has received this sort of …
A Sad Day For The Global Nation Of Beer
Posted by on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 in - 5 comments
So much for the Toronto Star's commitment to internationalism in beer retailing matters. You will recall that in April they made the madcap decision to expand their noting where you can get beers featured in Josh Rubin's column to include an outlet in New York as illustrated in my post from then …
American Craft Beer Week = Hooray for Everything?
Posted by on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 in - 8 comments
Not being American in the national constitutional sense, though somewhat in the continental Vespucci sense, sometimes I find things like American Craft Beer Week and a Declaration of Beer Independence all seem a bit too hooray for everything for me. You remember "Hooray for Everything" don'tca …
Text: I Am A Craft Brew Fan
Posted by on Thursday, April 23, 2009 in - 12 comments
I Am A Craft Brewer from I Am A Craft Brewer on Vimeo. • Man - things are getting weirder and weirder out there. You know, I really don't need any videos of people I will likely never meet telling me how great they are and how there is a unified movement of pure positivism that you can't deny …
A Great Day For The Global Nation Of Beer!
Posted by on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 in - 2 comments
Why is this a great day? It is the day that one small barrier to the international flow of beer was broken down in Canada. And I may have played a wee role by making a comment on Facebook. • What happened was Josh Rubin, beer columnist for the Toronto Star, posted a link on Facebook to a column …
So What Did You Think Of "Beer Wars" After The Show?
Posted by on Thursday, April 16, 2009 in - 27 comments
I got to thinking after being Mayor McMean of Meantown over Beer Wars the other day. I was a bit rude - even to the point Anat Baron, the filmmaker, jumped into the comments to defend the movie. I was reflective, even a bit chagrined. I usually think I use this my own bully pulpit more for the …
Again With The PR Emails Or... "Dear Travis"
Posted by on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 in - 4 comments
Just so you don't get me wrong, I am happy when one of my guest writers get noticed - don't get me wrong. And I am even happy when my, umm, cranky blurts over new media PR miscues get others talking. But this email received this afternoon from a new media publicist has got to be the pinnacle of …
Why Don't I Give A Rats Ass About "Beer Wars"?
Posted by on Monday, April 13, 2009 in - 15 comments
This is an odd question. For yoinks it seems that I have been twittered, emailed, RSSed and facebooked about this movie. Actually, I didn't think I could be RRSed but then I was. Yet I don't care despite the fact that PR is usually so compelling most of the time. I now even seem to need to know …
Please Don't Taste Your Beer Near Me
Posted by on Thursday, April 2, 2009 in - 8 comments
I am getting a wee bit tired of "tasting" beer. It is getting all too twee. This article in a Toronto rag of some sort or another displays everything that is wrong with the media's new relationship with beer and the concurrent looming over-preciousness of beer appreciation... or the over-wrought …
