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IPA Day Holiday Set For August 4

July 7, 2011

There’s nothing I love more than a new holiday, especially one celebrating a personal favorite: IPAs. The brainchild of Ashley V. Routson and Ryan A. Ross, August 4th has been designated as the date for the new holiday. From the announcement: Announcing International #IPADay: A Social Celebration of Craft Beer Attention all craft beer evangelists, [...]

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Wikio Beer Blog Rankings For July 2011

July 4, 2011

The July 2011 standings will soon be released for Wikio’s Beer Blogs. Jeff, from Beervana, and I continued our do si do around the beer blogging dance floor, and I bow to my partner after our fourth consecutive month switching places. Perhaps we should merge our two blogs and create a formidable juggernaut, Brookston Beervana? [...]

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Next Session Seeks Redemption, Beer Redemption

June 16, 2011

Our 53rd Session takes us down a more spiritual path, the road to redemption … sort of. Our host, John Holl, of his eponymous Beer Briefing, has chosen the topic Beer Redemption, for which he offers the following confession: One thing about drinking a lot of beer is that occasionally you’re going to have a [...]

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Wikio Beer Blog Rankings For June 2011

June 2, 2011

The June 2011 standings will soon be released for Wikio’s Beer Blogs. Machuca at Craft Austin got a sneak peak at the new rankings, so here’s what happened to the Top 20 over last month: Wikio June 2011 Beer Blog Rankings 1 Beervana (+1) 2 Brookston Beer Bulletin (-1) 3 The New School (+/-0) 4 [...]

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Session #51 Round-Up & Announcing Session #51.5

May 7, 2011

Well that was great fun, I was certainly glad to see so many people step up and participate, despite my best efforts to make things as difficult as possible. And everybody seemed to have a very good time, too. Cheese and beers just brings out the best in all of us, I guess. Anyway, I’m [...]

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Session #51: The Great Online Beer & Cheese-Off

May 5, 2011

It’s my great pleasure to host our 51st Session, my second time playing host over the four years we’ve been doing them. I chose a frightfully complicated topic which I’ve taken to calling by an overly grand name: The Great Online Beer & Cheese-Off. You can go back and read the long, original version of [...]

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Wikio Beer Blog Rankings For May 2011

May 2, 2011

The May 2011 standings will soon be released for Wikio’s Beer Blogs. Stan at Appellation Blog got a sneak peak at the new rankings, so here’s what happened to the Top 20 over last month: Wikio May 2011 Beer Blog Rankings 1 Brookston Beer Bulletin (+1) 2 Beervana (-1) 3 The New School (+1) 4 [...]

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The Mail Order Quagmire

April 8, 2011

There was in an interesting op-ed piece in the New York Times a few days ago. A wine blogger, David White (founder of the Terroirist), tackled the thorny issue of shipping wine (and beer and liquor) from state to state in a piece entitled Wholesale Robbery in Liquor Sales. He begins with this obvious logic: [...]

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Announcing Session #51: The Great Online Beer & Cheese-Off

April 8, 2011

Our 51st Session is the third of our run at nostalgia, albeit a mere four years worth of it. Stan Hieronymus first proposed the Session four years ago, and was the first host, too, followed by Alan (from A Good Beer Blog) and then I hosted the third outing. So here I am venturing into [...]

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Wikio Beer Blog Rankings For April 2011

April 5, 2011

The April 2011 standings have just been released for Wikio’s Beer Blogs. I’ve been knocked from my four month reign at the top, and Jeff from Beervana has once again assumed the #1 Spot. Congratulations Jeff. Here’s what happened to the Top 20 over last month: Wikio April 2011 Beer Blog Rankings 1 Beervana (+1) [...]

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Session Five-0 Ponders The Philosophy Of “How Do They Make Me Buy Their Beer?”

March 16, 2011

Our 50th Session — The Big Five-0 — is a monumental one and our host, Alan from A Good Beer Blog, is tackling it with appropriate seriousness, especially considering it’s on April Fool’s Day. He’s chosen as his topic How Do They Make Me Buy Their Beer? Alan elaborates: What makes you buy someone’s beer? [...]

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7 Things

March 11, 2011

David Turley at Musings Over A Pint punked me last week — in a good way, and on my birthday no less — by pulling me into 7 Things, an internet version of a chain letter. I’m sure it’s a coincidence, but 7 Things is also the name of a song by Miley Cyrus (a.k.a. [...]

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Help Alan Decide On The Next Session Topic

March 10, 2011

Alan up at A Good Beer Blog will be hosting our 50th Session, which will be held — no joke — on April Fool’s Day. But Alan is struggling to find just the right topic for “such a monumental moment in beer blogging history” and doesn’t “want to make it a case of Five-Uh-Oh.” He [...]

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Socialcohol Media Influencers

March 9, 2011

Here’s some more interesting statistical data on alcohol bloggers — beer, wine and liquor — from a software company in Silicon Valley by the name of eCairn, or eCairn Conversation. Watch this short video to get a feel for what the company is selling, essentially tools to help companies reach their core customers and “influencers.” [...]

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Wikio Beer Blog Rankings For March 2011

March 5, 2011

The March 2011 standings have just been released for Wikio’s Beer Blogs. For an embarrassing fourth straight month, I’m still clinging to the top spot. Here’s what happened to the Top 20 over last month: Wikio March 2011 Beer Blog Rankings 1 Brookston Beer Bulletin (+/-0) 2 Beervana (+/-0) 3 Brewpublic (+/-0) 4 The New [...]

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Next Session Defines A “Regular” Beer

February 15, 2011

Our 49th Session brings things full circle from the very beginning of the Session, first proposed by Stan Hieronymus four years ago. Our fifth year of monthly Sessions will start with the original first three hosts, Stan, Alan (from A Good Beer Blog) and myself. The first of these blasts from the past has Stan, [...]

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