Posts Tagged: Contests
Day 16: How Can I Get More Prizes For Our Contestants?
Posted by on Monday, December 1, 2008 in - 2 comments
It has been a difficult day at the old beer blog. The latest call for more photos has added more great entries like the one up there sent by Stan today of the cork celebrating its 40th birthday. So, in response, I have just spent the best part of an hour typing madly and sending emails that ask …
Day 14: I Just Uploaded 118 Contest Entries To Flickr
Posted by on Saturday, November 29, 2008 in - leave a comment
118 Entries from 26 contestants in the Yule 2008 Beer Blog Photo Contest And Non-Credit Course in Fluids And Photography. It is clearly moments like this that make Jeff and I so proud of running A Good Beer Blog and Stonch's Beer Blog...well, that and the packages of samples delivered to our doors …
Day 11: More Prizes Than Entrants?!? Send More Photos!!!
Posted by on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 in - 2 comments
That is Paul Bergeman at the Laurelwood Brewing Co. of Portland Oregon. Matt Wiater, Senior Editor with • www.portlandbeer.org sent it in. Isn't it loverly? I thought so. Then I thought about what else he could do for the contest so I hit him up to help gather more prizes for the 2008 Yule Beer …
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 …
Photo Contest Day 3: Great Beer Prizes Keep Coming In!
Posted by on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 in - 2 comments
Let's see, we announced on Sunday and this is Tuesday so, yup, this is day three of the Christmas 2008 Beer Blog Photo Contest and so far, in addition to the six prize givers announced at the launch, we are now able to announce that we have added the following prizes to the swag bag: • Ron …
BrewDog And Skull Splitter Face Humourless Tribunal
Posted by on Monday, November 17, 2008 in - 5 comments
Following up on a story we discussed last May, tomorrow's edition of The Independent tells the sad tale of how both BrewDog and the Orkney Brewery, makers of Skull Splitter, have had a ruling made against them by the shadowy Portman Group - described by The Independent as a self-regulating … read more »
The 2008 Yule Beer Blog Photo Contest Is Launched!
Posted by on Sunday, November 16, 2008 in - 6 comments
Hear Ye Hear Ye! Oyez Oyez!!! Ladies and Gentlemen and children of all ages! May we have drum rrrrrrrollllllllll if you please!!! Can I get a witness??? Bang the Gong, Get it On!!! • Once again this year, I am happy to declare the beer blog Christmas photo contest is on. Real on. Real on right …
Miller Leaves Market With Which It Had No Real Connection
Posted by on Monday, November 3, 2008 in - 8 comments
I am all for the global marketplace and beer being something to share around the planet. Heck, just today I secured a really dandy set of prizes for the 2008 photo contest from a noted Scottish brewery as well as a distributor of fine imports into North American - but are you really surprised by …
The Third Good Beer Blog Photo Contest Is Coming!!!
Posted by on Sunday, November 2, 2008 in - 4 comments
Wow. Year number three. Who knew this would all still be going on. I was sure we would all be communicating by 3D holographs and brain implants by now. Sadly, the future is not yet here. You are not soon to get a jet pack. • But there is plenty of other things to get if you send in a photo to … read more »
The Winners Of The 2008 Beer Blog Poetry Slam
Posted by on Sunday, April 6, 2008 in - 1 comment
This has been a weird contest in a way. We've run a number of these arts/beers challenges and for the most part the entries are fun or light. But this time, even though there were not maybe as many entries as there might have been, the quality was really quite impressive. I have put all the … read more »
