BridgePort Brewing releases a new website: [www.bridgeportbrew.com] Thanks to Kendall at R/West for this info:Bridgeport Brewery, Oregon’s oldest craft Brewery, is celebrating the launch of their new Web Site www.BridgePortBrew.com (going live on Ju…
Beer blogging is not as easy as people might think. Being a journalist, I have to walk a fine line between outright advertising, being an advocate and covering the industry with some degree of journalistic integrity.
My job as a blogger is to create a…
I don’t have any thought-provoking beer news for the day, so unfortunately I’ll give this to you to contemplate whether this is an utter PR disaster. Just so I’m up-to-date here, the Washington Bullets and Tampa Bay Devil Rays changed their names, but…
Filed under: Beer, Slashfood AteI had a pretty hectic day yesterday. Once I got home, all I wanted to do was sit on the back porch, enjoy the beautiful weather, and relax with a beer. These are some of my favorite beers to drink while winding down …
Coming soon to a bar in California: more crap you don’t need trying to buy customer loyalty for beer you don’t like! Today, the California state senate GO committee passed AB 1245 (a.k.a. the Trash & Trinkets bill) by a vote of 6-1. I…
Wow, we just got the events list from the Oregon Brewers Guild and holy #%@%%$, it’s good to be a beer drinker in Oregon! I’m not even sure where to begin with this one. Walking you through this one step at a time would take hours, and neither you o…
From an Advertising Age story: the Center for Alcohol Marketing & Youth, perhaps better known as CAMY, released yet another “study” on the number of alcohol beverage ads “youths” see. It’s some scary stuff, too: “kids” see more and more alcohol be…
Read a great article in Wired recently about the underground production of moonshine. One of the highlights was a bit about a federal agent:
John Spidell misses the moonshine tradition. A former federal revenuer, the 65-year-old spent the first hal…
Last weekend I returned to the Truman Gravity Book. I hadn’t transcribed anything from it for months. I’ll be honest, the format is a pain in the arse. The Whitbread Gravity Book is far easier to work with. And it contains more details. That’s why I’d…
Time magazine recently ran a piece on underage drinking and some of the effects of our draconian anti-alcohol laws.
Time: Should You Drink with Your Kids?
A few years ago, a team of North Carolina researchers, led by public-health professor Kristie Lo…