Posts Tagged: Contests
Day 23+5: Another Eleven Beer Photo Prizes Announced
Posted by on Friday, December 16, 2011 in - 5 comments
So here we are. The second wave of prizes. Eleven in total today making for 22 all together. Just the Grand Champion to go and I am going to need a couple of days to think about it. There is a photo I have in my mind but I need to consider the options. It is a little unusual but because it tells … read more »
Day 23+4: Ten Prizes Awarded And Four Innis + Gunn
Posted by on Thursday, December 15, 2011 in - 12 comments
Prizes. Better start picking some prizes. But there are samples building up, too. Better opens some samples. Good thing I have tomorrow off. • First the beer. I have reviewed at least three Innis + Gunn beers and I have a sense what to expect: rounded, juicy, well balanced and tasty malt without …
Day 23+2: Thirty-Nine Contestants Twenty-One Prizes
Posted by on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 in - 6 comments
I wish I was more diligent. Every year I think I am getting close to a prize for every winner but, again this year, the answer is no. Sadly. But the prizes are sweet. Look at what the winner of winners wins. • ♦ Oxford Companion to Beer, Oxford University Press. • ♦ A subscription to TAPS The …
Day 23+1: Those Photos Caught In The Spam Filter
Posted by on Monday, December 12, 2011 in - leave a comment
I suppose I should check under the sofa, in the mail box and out in the garden, too. One really never knows where one will find photos does one. Robert Gale sent in these eight entries on Saturday but I missed seeing them as Lord Goog thought he knew better where they ought to go. He lives in …
Day 23: The Final Xmas Photo Contest Entries For 2011
Posted by on Sunday, December 11, 2011 in - 5 comments
There you go. Another year's worth of entries for the Xmas Beer Blog Photo Contest 2012. By my court there are 211 entries this year, up over 10% from last year. Stats. That's the true meaning of Christmas... and Hogmanay for that matter. Let's see who sent what, shall we? • My pal Dan James of …
Day 22: As We Wait For Late Entries, Pause For A Shotz
Posted by on Saturday, December 10, 2011 in - leave a comment
Could you do this on TV now? A comedy about brewery workers? Probably not. By the way, I sing a song like that to myself as I am beer shopping. Every time. Don't you? • Under 24 hours to get your photos in. Tom Cizauskas of Yours For Good Fermentables did as did Simon Johnson, the Reluctant …
Day 21: It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like A Finish Line
Posted by on Friday, December 9, 2011 in - 1 comment
Seem you just get started and before you know it... it's the time we have to say... man, the 2012 Xmas, Yule, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay and Hanukkah Christmas photo contest has flown by. The entries have to be in by Sunday at noon eastern standard time but so far we are close to where we were last year …
Day 19: More Photos, Too, Including One From Martyn
Posted by on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 in - leave a comment
I lost Martyn's submission of a photo in late November. It's not like I have staff running this thing. Wouldn't that be great? Staff who hits up prize givers all year. Staff to re-size these photos? • Enough daydreaming. Martyn's offering is called "The Traveller's Relief" and was taken at …
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 …
