Posts Tagged: Web Resources
Your Friday Night Beer Blog Reading Highlights
Posted by on Friday, May 10, 2013 in - leave a comment
It's a distracted time. The game between Toronto and Boston is interfering with the game between Toronto and Boston. The first thunderstorm of the spring is moving through giving parched seedlings out in the garden as heavier duties of life nibble at the back of the mind. Yet, it is a warm Friday …
Session 75: Brewing Business In 157 Words
Posted by on Sunday, May 5, 2013 in - 2 comments
It's Session time again. Or it was Friday and now it's Sunday 8:02 am. See, there's things to do. Gardening, smoking pork, napping, sitting. So, it was with deep regret that I realized I needed to post something for this the three quarter-ish of a century edition of these, Les Sessions. The …
Generally, I Don't Need Any Rewards For Having Beer
Posted by on Sunday, April 28, 2013 in - 4 comments
This is an interesting opinion piece in the Baltimore Post-Examiner about the role of the mobile app Untapped with the beer nerd author: • My experiences with this app continued to evolve. I know that I have had at least 829 unique beers since November 2010. So when I look at a draft board, and …
A Few Updates On New Long Writing About Good Beer
Posted by on Saturday, March 30, 2013 in - 3 comments
I write a lot for my job. Likely three-quarters of what I do is based on typing a lot of detail that needs to be relied upon. I like it. Think I am good at it. But I have to tell you that co-writing this quasi-fictional narrative on good beer with Max - the one that flies through time and space …
How Will You Find Me Without Lord Goog's Reader?
Posted by on Monday, March 18, 2013 in - 6 comments
I have to admit that I was a bit caught off guard by the news. Time was you could actually write blog posts about stats. Eight years ago, I used to collect data like this because back in Web 2.0 well before social media you really had no clue how many people were out there. Then came along …
An Update On The Shared Works Of Writing
Posted by on Monday, February 18, 2013 in - 4 comments
Long writing is something that has nagged at me for much of my adult life. Unlike what you see on TV, most of what most people who, like me, work in the law spend most of the day reading and writing, searching for a more coherent argument or a weak point in the authority being relied upon. And it …
Apparently, The Thinking Monkey Has Been Missed
Posted by on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 in - 4 comments
I has no idea that Joe Stange, the Thirsty Pilgrim, had a crush on the Thinking Monkey, as illustrated, but today on Twitter we read this: • Would rule "don't be absurd" be violation of itself? [insert Alan's thinking monkey] • And also this: • He must be on sabbatical. Had to go 10 pages …
The Home Brew Digest Needs Our Help
Posted by on Sunday, February 10, 2013 in - 2 comments
Update: you can paypal a donation to serverfund@hbd.org. • Long before beer blogs and long before either BeerAdvocate or RateBeer (and their lack of spacing between adjectives and nouns) there was Home Brew Digest. I am on the email list for the digest but I have to admit I have not read one for …
What Do You Call It When A Beer Style Bullies?
Posted by on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 in - 18 comments
An interesting flurry of ideas on Twitter this afternoon triggered originally by this statement by Halifax, Nova Scotia's Propeller Brewing Co.: • It was a tough decision. We can only sustain 1 brand (full time) at the @lcbo-Our IPA is our best selling brew... • It was part of a conversation …
Having A Go At Beery Long Writing With Max
Posted by on Monday, January 21, 2013 in - leave a comment
I have a few things burbling away. First in line, as you know, Albany ale needs to be properly addressed - especially given Craig's more detailed research and clearer organization of the topic. Having stumbled upon the forgotten center of brewing of America before the lager invasion, it's worthy … read more »
