Comments on: Beer Birthday: Michael Jackson

By: beerman49

beerman49 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:48:12 +0000

We toast him all the time when we drink great beer & great whiskey! He was an incredible raconteur who more than accomplished his missions to educate the public about beer & whiskey! His “Beer Hunter” series will live forever – too bad he didn’t live long enough to do the same with whiskey.

By: Jay Brooks

Jay Brooks — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:46:46 +0000

Yes, I’ll be judging at the World Beer Cup again this year.

By: Karl (BeerJunkie) Mende

Karl (BeerJunkie) Mende — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:14:10 +0000

Thanks for the reminder Jay. Michael was the main reason that we have the depth of beers that we now have available to us here in America. He was truly a pioneer in the beer world. In 1996 I picked him up at the Algonquin Hotel in NY so that he could visit my new brewery (Climax) before I drove him down to a dinner that he was giving at the Rathskeller in DC. What a great ride, we talked for hours as he imparted his wisdom to me. He is surely missed. Tonight I will drink something special in his honor. Cheers!

By: Melani Gordon

Melani Gordon — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:02:46 +0000

Great write up, we’ll spread the word and encourage people to raise a pint today in his honor! Will you be at the World Beer Cup?

By: Jhon Gilroy

Jhon Gilroy — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:33:17 +0000

Had the rare pleasure to be Michael’s guide in Chicago in 2005 when we kicked off the Herold Brewery’s beer there. I was associated through his Rare Beer Club. That night at the hotel, he asked if I would like to see something special. We met at the bar for a scotch, and he had in his hands the first hardbound copy of his new whisky book. You’d have thought it was the first thing he’d ever published. Pulling out something very special tonight for sure.

By: Jeff Alworth

Jeff Alworth — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:37:39 +0000

Thanks, Jay. I’ll definitely bust out something nice tonight. It will be silky, complex, piquant, and joyful–just like his prose.

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By: michael Reinhardt

michael Reinhardt — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:45:52 +0000

Ditto on the early knowledge of beer coming from this guy. I still love to go back and read his stuff. By the way, it is a real shame that when you say Michael Jackson and beer in the same sentence that people still automatically think of the pervert pop singer. I’ll be drinking a beer in the real Michael Jackson’s memory. Oh yeah! I just thought of something he said one time that made me laugh. I remember him writing somewhere that he wish to publish a book that related to him having Parkinson’s disease and assuring people that he was not shaking because he was drunk, but because of the disease. What a sense of humour (note the British spelling).