Posts Tagged: Web Resources
Google Ranks For "Beer"
Posted by on Friday, June 8, 2007 in - 8 comments
I use Google rankings to get a sense of the place of beer in the digital world and, yes, where this blog fits into it. The thing is the other night I witnessed a reordering of the "beer" universe whereby everything that had been important had collapsed and oddly lower interest sites like one for …
The Pete Brown Blog Revival!
Posted by on Friday, June 1, 2007 in - 1 comment
Lord be praised! Pete Brown, author of the best beer book of 2006, Three Sheets To The Wind as well as the also excellent Man Walks Into A Pub has written to let us know his beer blog has fixed the boiler problems, gotten a new load of coal and has the transmitters once again aimed directly at the …
Evan Rail On The Trail Of Local German Beer
Posted by on Monday, May 21, 2007 in - 6 comments
I must have been overwhelmed by the gardening and snoozing and beer sipping this weekend as I failed to mention that our correspondent for central Europe, Evan Rail, had a good piece in The New York Times yesterday on the somewhat elusive local real ales and lagers of Germany. Other than the two …
Making This Here Blog More Of A Multimedia Event
Posted by on Sunday, May 20, 2007 in - 3 comments
Building on the huge success of the pager update system that gives you notice whenever I open a beer and the web cam in Gary's fridge, I started a Facebook group for the beer blog just to see if that adds anything of value for us all. • You can check it out here.
Session #4 Announced: Local Brews
Posted by on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 in - 5 comments
The next edition of The Session has been announced by snekse over at Gastronomic Fight Club and it is all about local brews: • “The idea here is to be as helpful as possible for visitors to your area. What is the beer/brewery/brewpub that you feel is quintessential to your city? What do the …
Stonch's Keg And Other Signs of Spring
Posted by on Sunday, May 6, 2007 in - leave a comment
There are a fewer greater things in life than witnessing the pure joy of others. And that is one of the things that makes this beer blogging stuff so fun. Look at that picture above of Stonch and his pals. My immediate reaction was to whip myself into motion and start the process of bottling the …
Session 3: The Unlikely Quest For Mild
Posted by on Thursday, May 3, 2007 in - 6 comments
What's wrong with our mild!?! • As discussed, Jay has determined that this months edition of "The Session" will be all about mild and there is a panic throughout the globe. Why? Because it is a style that no one makes much anymore. It is a bit of historical dead end, as a lighter maltier beer …
Session 3: A Case Of Mild Anxiety
Posted by on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 in - 6 comments
We've had the stouts and we've had the dubbels. And this Friday the third in the beerapalooza of a monthly series called "The Session" will focus on milds. Jay will be host over at Brookston Beer Bulletin and he has posted a great introduction to the style there today. • Trouble is, I can't find …
In The Good Beer Blog Mailbag And Around The Internet
Posted by on Monday, April 16, 2007 in - leave a comment
Is this the best place to have a beer? • I get lots of email. Sure there is a lot of spam but some of it, like the picture above from Paul, is from the writers and plenty is from readers. Paul wrote to send me a bit of the trip he and herself to the village of which included a B+B and a pub …
May Is The Month Of Mild
Posted by on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 in - 7 comments
I forgot to hold the little Olympic flag ceremony - you know the one at the end when the old city passes the games on to the new city when all the volunteers run around with big flags in patters you can't quite associate with a theme or, really, even a pattern all to the strained sounds of a minor …
