The first contest of 2007 for the readership of A Good Beer Blog has been a huge success. You will recall the top three winners each get a paperback cop of Beer School, the story of the making of the Brooklyn Brewery by its founders, Steve Hindy and Tom Potter. I recently reviewed the book here …
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Still a few days left in the first contest for 2007. We have had some good entries but not yet as many as in the photo contest from last fall. I think the fact that the photos were out of our archives as opposed to having to think up something new may have something to do with that. We do have a …
I thought I was under some sort of email spam attack today - then I realized it was just the flood of entries for the first Good Beer Blog contest of 2007. So far we have Stan asking many questions and entries like Boston Bob's and this a poem. • Now Jon of The Brew Site blog has forwarded his …
Ok, the first contest of 2007 is upon us and, while Stan is mulling his options, let me think a bit about my own picks. If I win I am giving the book to my dentist's office: • The keg that never drains: When I was a home brewer with an acre vegetable garden, I used to brew super-low beers like a …
OK. We have the prize established - three paperback copies of the book Beer School which is about the founding of The Brooklyn Brewery. Fab. I am reading it now and like it plenty. • Now for the contest. Paul of Kingston, who missed the CNY Brewfest for the most non-injurious yet catastrophic of …
Hey, the nice people from Wiley publications sent me four copies of Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewer and three of them are for you. With any luck this will be more exciting than the ship contest, more like the photo contest though I can do without a repeat of Mr. Bitter who …
My Best Beer Photo of 2006 • Though the 2006 contest was a bust with no one trying for that ship, 2006 was a great year in beer. It was a year that I had a couple of hundred new beers. It was a year that I got to beer hunt from near Lake Huron to the coast of Maine. It was a year of new writing …
OK, we floated the idea of the best of 2006 a little while ago but if I know one thing about beer blog readers, I know they love their swag. I was lucky enough to have lunch yesterday with Peter Bryant, COO of the Sackets Harbor Brewing, maker of one of my favorite ales, Thousand Island Pale Ale …
Well, there it is - the big winner. I have to say the response to the photo contest was better than I have thought with thirteen contestants and exactly umpteen entries. Why this picture above over, say, some of the great pictures of hops or great beers being had in great pubs? First, it is a good …