Posts Tagged: Contests
Day 19: Oxford University Press Books Added To Prizes
Posted by on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 in - leave a comment
See those books up there? Oxford University Press has confirmed two copies of each that enter into the prize pool for all you good little beer photo nerds. To the left is The Oxford Companion To Beer, review here and considered in greater and greater depth here. To the right is The Economics of …
Day 18: Dear Lord - Save Us From The Portman Group
Posted by on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 in - 9 comments
Hear our prayer. Remember the money lenders and the false prophets? They are back, Lord. The shadowy Portman Group is back. A trade industry organization representing macro brewers pretending they are an independent consumer-protection organization. Lord, hear our prayers. • It's been over three …
Day 15: More Photos To Consider And Still A Week To Go
Posted by on Saturday, December 3, 2011 in - leave a comment
Time flies. Except when you have pneumonia. Joe Stange in Costa Rica has it, too, so he has sent in one entry this year as well as a prize that will be added to the list. He writes about the picture over here at his blog Thirsty Pilgrim, of an egg nog he concocted in the southern US heat to make a …
Day 13: The Day The Beer Photos Attacked
Posted by on Thursday, December 1, 2011 in - 6 comments
OK. Some catching up to do with the entries for the Xmas New Year Hanukkah Hogmanay 2011 Photo Contest. Up there is a photo of the world's greatest beer fridge or at least the best I have seen. It's by Jerry Davison of Oregon who writes: • My wife and I were in Portland... and I stopped in to a …
Day Nine: Now That US Thanks Are Done - It's True Yule!
Posted by on Sunday, November 27, 2011 in - 7 comments
When does Yuletide begin? The first snow? The first child's question about Santa? Or is it the photo contest? Who knows. In any event, we are well and truly underway and have more announcements of prizes: • ♦ New Jeff Alworth of Beervana, who is madly researching in Europe for his book The Beer …
Day Five: More Entries More Prizes And That Green Sign
Posted by on Wednesday, November 23, 2011 in - leave a comment
I will inundate you for a bit here. The prizes and entries do flow in and I have to get them out of the inbox and into the... hmm... what would Protz call it... the information super highways. Plenty to do. No time to doddle bothering with that sort of thing. First, here is the updated prize giver …
Day Four: The First Photo Contest Entries Roar In
Posted by on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 in - 6 comments
It is fun when I get to see these entries for the first time every autumn. The first blizzard of the season is just missing us to the south tonight but it is starting to feel Christmas around here. Think I will mull me a little something as I consider what we have received in the inbox. First …
Day Two: The Prizes And Entries Start To Come In
Posted by on Sunday, November 20, 2011 in - leave a comment
I always wonder if anyone might participate in this contest. I get slightly anxious 'round about early October. But it begins. Entries arrived by email this very morn. I have yet to truly begun hitting people up for prizes but so far we have the following fine folk pledging: • ♦ Roland and …
Ready, Set, Go! 2011's Yuletide Photo Contest Is On!!!
Posted by on Friday, November 18, 2011 in - leave a comment
Stan announced it, too. Send your entries to beerblog@gmail.com. Some rules here. More later if required. Up there is one of Andrew Mason of Illinois's entries from 2007. You can do that. Couldn't you? Could you? Have you? • What prizes do you want? Many confirmed already but many more to be …
It's The Week The 2011 Xmas Photo Contest Began
Posted by on Sunday, November 13, 2011 in - 5 comments
Do you have the Xmas beer pr0n photo fever yet? It is coming. Indeed, it is nigh. Right about now nigh in fact. A few prize packs have been pledged so far but we will hunt high and low for more. These are the rules. Because you can't have a good contest without strictly enforced arbitrary rules …
