Posts Tagged: Web Resources
Is CAMRA Run By Puristans Or Precisionists?
Posted by on Saturday, May 28, 2011 in - 19 comments
That is surely an unkind thing to say but recently I read a fascinating book about the first leader of the good if extreme folk who settled Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1600s. In that book, I came upon the distinction between "puritanism" and "precisionism" which boiled down to the …
Doubt Craft Beer Drinkers Are Purer, Just A Bit Happier
Posted by on Thursday, May 26, 2011 in - 9 comments
That is what I wrote just now over at Beervana. See, Jeff wrote one of the statements that I never have accepted: • People buy macros to consume in quantity; micros are more often savored. • Just as we have to be careful when considering whether we are important, we also have to consider …
What A Perfect Day For A Meta-Meta-Discussion!
Posted by on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 in - 4 comments
An interesting comparison today between two communities of beer bloggy types. With a hearty hat tip to Stan, I see, Mark Dredge in England considers the hobby of amateur writing about professional beers and brewing to be incredibly important. Sure, he is yet to come down after a successful …
Great Beer Shop News From Zak Avery In Leeds
Posted by on Sunday, March 27, 2011 in - 1 comment
I have a huge soft spot for the good people who put great selections of beer at good prices on their store's shelves. For me, retail is my main route to good beer - not the pub and not the brewery. So, it was glum news we heard from Zak in Leeds a few weeks ago telling us his shop had apparently …
The Beer Blog Comments Thread That Has It All
Posted by on Monday, March 21, 2011 in - 13 comments
I was going to comment over the weekend at Jack Curtain's Liquid Diet on the interesting discussion about whether "session beer" is or isn't... but then I notices something more abstract about whether the beer blog post and comments as a whole. It seems to sum up all internet beer discourse on one …
When The Gods Go Bowling With A Japanese Brewery
Posted by on Friday, March 11, 2011 in - 7 comments
Martyn Cornell, the Zythophile himself, posted this at Facebook. Apparently it's one of the breweries in Sendai, Japan - likely Kirin's he says - "where the earthquake knocked over four of what look like lager conditioning towers: that's foaming beer all over the bottom of the picture." I wonder …
I Must Write Better... Must Write Much Better...
Posted by on Sunday, March 6, 2011 in - 15 comments
I have to admit it. Had I had more space for yesterday's headline it would have read "Thing #2597 To Not Give Rat's Ass About? Fretting About Wine Fans." It was an imprecision on my part. The whole fretting thing is the fault, not those wine fans oblivious to how some beer fans crave their passing …
Looking For A Moment's Beer Blogging Quiet
Posted by on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 in - 16 comments
Exhibit A: I hate the poncey, arrogant, cicerone crap. If there has ever been a greater crime committed in the name of wine-ifying beer, I don’t know what it is. • Exhibit B: I've always hated it too, because it's boring as hell. And what is this supposed "Belgian" character? • For a social …
"Not Until I've Let It Sit Overnight And Come Back To It"
Posted by on Saturday, February 12, 2011 in - 6 comments
The symposium on sucking continues here and there and maybe elsewhere. Regular contributor made this comment and it, too, got me thinking: • I do think all too often writers (beer- and other) are incautious in their use of derogatory terms- superlatives, too. I make it a habit never to hit …
Holy Frig! The Session Is Tomorrow Already!!!
Posted by on Thursday, February 3, 2011 in - 1 comment
Life dashes. Then it sprints. Then it tears away from you looking back and giving you a rude gesture. The Session has become a marker for me, telling me about the pace of my life over its last four years of existence, reminding me that I need to fill each month with something worth doing or …
