Posts Tagged: Beer and Media
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 …
Rob Kasper Calls Out Canadian Craft Brewers
Posted by on Friday, March 20, 2009 in - 13 comments
I like Rob Kasper's beer column in the Baltimore Sun, "Kasper on Tap." It is to the point, is written from the consumer's point of view and often asks questions of the readership - like these in response to new data that shows Canadians are buying more and more US craft beer: • I think I …
Ontario: Josh Rubin Takes One For The Team
Posted by on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 in - leave a comment
I have spent a very merry evening over beer with the Toronto Star's beer beat reporter Josh Rubin. He is a fine lad. So, I feel particularly grateful yet sincerely sorry for him and his obligation / choice / occupational hazard of having to try out Trafalgar Brewing's Triple Threat 3-pack of … read more »
Review: TAPS Magazine, Winter 2008/09 Issue
Posted by on Saturday, January 3, 2009 in - 3 comments
I picked up a copy of the latest issue of TAPS magazine, a photo contest prize giver, this morning while we were out at Chapters. Well worth the $6.95 I paid and, frankly, so well worth it I thought I would write a post setting out why. This may seem an obvious motivation for a blogger on a …
Silly Headline: "Beer Adds New Excitement..."
Posted by on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 in - leave a comment
"...to the Traditional Thanksgiving Feast"?? Silly headlines. I know about these things. I am related to a silly headline writer. And I actually went to a school with a branch dedicated to silly headline writing and the other journalistic arts. You have to be on your toes about these things … read more »
Day 9: A Few Updates On A Crazy Beer Filled Monday
Posted by on Monday, November 24, 2008 in - 6 comments
The contest is on! The contest is on! Entries are pouring on but there has been a bunch of other stuff keeping me from posting a semi-gallery so far. It is really a hemi-semi-demi-gallery so far but you get the point. Here is some stuff I have notice over the last few days: • I brewed yesterday …
Evan And Stan On The State Of Italian Craft Beer
Posted by on Saturday, November 1, 2008 in - leave a comment
There is a great article on Italian craft beer in The New York Times today by our friend and co-author around here by times, Evan Rail in which Stan makes an appearance as part of the Hieronymi's global search for great beer. The accompanying photo by Dave Yoder, copied above, is a study of how to …
"Man Arrested In Santa Cruz With Beer Keg, Harmonica, Wet Suit..."
Posted by on Thursday, October 30, 2008 in - 2 comments
"...and hallucinogenic mushrooms." • That's a headline in The Mercury News of San Jose today. When I go hunting Goggle, once in every while, for beer news to comment upon there are always masses of these sad stories about beer and violence to get through about, say, man beats man with beer or …
Charleston Business Journal - Beer News Horn O'Plenty
Posted by on Monday, October 6, 2008 in - 2 comments
In amongst all the daily beer news items about this guy beating up that guy over a case of beer...or these guys passing a law that will never work to stop this guy beating up that guy over a case of beer...you find a gem like an article in the Charleston (Regional) Business Journal by Molly Parker …
Getting Your Beer On The Cheap In NYC
Posted by on Thursday, September 25, 2008 in - 1 comment
This photo essay on hunting for ten buck-a-beer beers through the bars and stores of New York is just fun.
