Posts Tagged: Web Resources
Sad News Of A Beer Fan's Passing Earlier This Summer
Posted by on Monday, September 17, 2012 in - leave a comment
I took down the logo for the Cracked Kettle beer store in Amsterdam today. I removed it after getting an email advising that the shop closed a few months back and that owner Jeff Cunningham had died in June after a few months of terminal illness. Sad news. I never met Jeff but had worked with him …
Blogging About Blogging As Boak and Bailey Disclose
Posted by on Monday, September 10, 2012 in - 15 comments
Books, beer and awkward branded clothing. And those products that supposedly make you experience of beer more convenient but do not. Emails offering come to me a number of times a week and, unless it is a really unappealing concept from the get go, I writing in reply that wee treat in the mail …
Boak And Bailey Explore 1960s UK Beer Culture
Posted by on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 in - 9 comments
I am not sure what they are up to but Boak and Bailey are up to something interesting. While we have realized that received wisdom about many things brewing related are not to be trusted, that discussion has largely be left to issues in the past as in before living memory. B+B, however, seem to …
Is There Anything About Beer That Is Actually True?
Posted by on Saturday, August 11, 2012 in - 5 comments
Two monkey heads in a row. What is going on? Well, for starters, I was messing around on these internets this week and, as is usually the case with ideas beery, I have come to realize again that the asides are the thing that are most interesting. I wondered whether beer really warranted beer nerds …
Ontario: Finally A Beer Fan Video I Like
Posted by on Thursday, June 14, 2012 in - 6 comments
Remember a few years ago when there were all those needy videos about "I Am Craft Beer" on YouTube and everywhere else that went on and on as if all brewers were demi-gods, all good beer fans were long lost friends and lovers and craft beer was what would fuel that rocket ship that was going to … read more »
Are You Going To The Upcoming Beer Blogger Conference?
Posted by on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 in - 21 comments
When I started blogging almost a decade ago, a pal of mine of long standing would give me unending grief about how needy I was, how it was all a failed ego trip, a desperate cry for help. I was livid. I thought it was entirely unfair, lacked all understanding, missed the point, didn't get social …
Session 64: Pale Ale Was What I Drank When...
Posted by on Friday, June 1, 2012 in - 3 comments
I am not that old but, I guess, I am really not all that young either. I am not sure that I every went into a bar to have a beer in the 70s but know I was doing that by the fall of 1981 in Nova Scotia. Before that, there was drinking in friends' basements, drinking out by the reservoir, drinking …
The Great MetaBlog Debate Of 2004 Has Returned!!!
Posted by on Thursday, May 31, 2012 in - 3 comments
There is no honey sweeter, no creek water cooler, no child's laughter more precious than what happens when bloggers write about blogging. Walk with me through these thoughts from Andy Crouch, would you? • Back when the mainstream media spent little time covering the craft beer segment, one only …
What Is Worse? Free Beer Or Free Advertising?
Posted by on Friday, May 18, 2012 in - 12 comments
It is a sad state of affairs when you can't read this far into an argument without asking yourself if the author can't see the screaming incongruity: • The other reason why we don't give away beer is because we have a firm conviction that if you want to write about our beer, then we don't want …
Is The River Slowly Rising At The OCBeerCommentary Wiki?
Posted by on Sunday, May 13, 2012 in - 2 comments
Seven months ago, I wrote a post entitled "And Quiet Flows the OCBeerCommentary Wiki" about the sensibly slow pace of its review of The Oxford Companion to Beer. But the flow more than slowed. Pace became somewhat geological over the winter. I have to admit that I wasn't very focused myself and … read more »
