Is the Beer Nut Nuts?
I’ve generally avoided the whole dust-up involving beer writer George Lenker of the Springfield Republican (who, like a half-dozen or more folks goes by the moniker, The Beer Nut) and his recent Part I...
View ArticleReviews of Great American Craft Beer…
My second book on beer, Great American Craft Beer, is now available to the public and some press reviews and mentions have started to arrive. I’ll try to post them here as I come across them, sometimes...
View ArticleThe Beer King of the Interwebs: Harry Schuhmacher
Born the son of a Lone Star distributor in Houston, Harry Schuhmacher was surrounded by beer from his earliest days. Derived from generations of beer distributors, Schuhmacher dutifully did his part,...
View ArticleBeer Blogging, To What End?
Every once in a while, I have one of those days where several outside forces converge to reveal a singular theme. Today was one of those days. It started with my re-publishing a piece I wrote for...
View ArticleThe Beer Blogging Brouhaha, Part 2: A Beer Bloggers Conference? #bbc10
It has been an unexpectedly busy day here at BeerScribe.com in the wake of last night’s piece on the state of beer blogging. I can imagine few topics more geeky than the present one but I’ll indulge it...
View ArticleAnother Lament On The State And Future Of Beer Writing And Blogging…
With April will come the 50th issue of BeerAdvocate Magazine. Quite a feat for any publication but especially one in the notoriously fickle niche of beer. Over the last decade, we’ve seen beer...
View ArticlePete Brown Surveys Beer Writing, Also Finds It Boring…
In the new issue of Brewery History, one dedicated to celebrating the late beer writer Michael Jackson, British beer writer Pete Brown writes the introductory article and in the process a chord...
View ArticleShould Beer Writers Stop Writing About History?
There have been a flurry of blog posts this week decrying the recent release of the Oxford Beer Companion, edited by Garrett Oliver, brewmaster at the Brooklyn Brewery. As part of this...
View ArticleBeer Blogging, Ethics, Journalists, Payola, and Maybe a Beer or Two…
A few weeks back, a handful of beer writers and bloggers kicked around the issue of writing, ethics, and coziness with the brewers we all cover in one form or another. As the discussion occurred on...
View ArticleSession #86 – Beer Journalism: Looking to the Future.
This post contains a number of firsts. It is the first time I have participated in The Session, “a monthly beer blogging get together founded by Jay Brooks at Brookston Beer Bulletin and Stan...
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