{"id":6011,"date":"2008-10-02T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potablecurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/wetting-line.html"},"modified":"2008-10-02T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T19:12:00","slug":"potable-curmudgeon-the-wetting-a-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/?p=6011","title":{"rendered":"Potable Curmudgeon, The: Wetting a line."},"content":{"rendered":"

\tI must confess that I’ve been too busy and preoccupied this year to have sufficient time for composing the screeds that formerly defined my existence as a beer writer of sorts. This is a matter of regret, but sometimes life intrudes.<\/p>\n

On a good day, I’m still capable of poking sticks though the bars of the American swill asylum, as with this week’s Louisville Eccentric Observer<\/em> column: Mug Shots: The Bud Isn’t Your Buddy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, I realize that lobbing potshots at Budweiser is like shooting benumbed fish in a barrel, but the reason I persist in doing it is to watch the reaction … and, inevitably, there is a reaction, although sometimes it takes a while. Usually the reaction resembles the same type of graceless, ham-fisted extortion that has played such an important part in the American icon’s business model for the past century.<\/p>\n

In a society that presumably values free expression, should A-B’s unhappiness about words written in a newspaper column be conveyed in any way other <\/em>than words of the company’s own expressing a contrary point of view, with readers left to decide on their own?<\/p>\n

I possess no information to suggest that anyone connected with A-B has ever read anything I’ve ever written or cares if they have. But for better or worse, I don’t trust ’em. Consider yesterday’s column a curmudgeon’s fishing expedition. We’ll see if there were any nibbles.
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