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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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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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Rare Beer Prices On eBay

April 18, 2011

A GT Wharton posted an interesting survey that he conducted about the prices people will bay for rare beer on eBay. His article, entitled Market Behavior for Rare Beer: eBay Auction Prices in Review appeared today on Rate Beer’s Hop Press. It appears to be a quite thorough look at auction prices realized over a [...]

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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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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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Wikio Beer Blog Rankings For February 2011

February 7, 2011

The February 2011 standings are out for Wikio’s Beer Blogs. For a third straight month, I’m still hanging on to the top spot. Here’s what happened to the Top 20 over last month: Wikio February 2011 Beer Blog Rankings 1 Brookston Beer Bulletin (+/-0) 2 Beervana (+/-0) 3 Brewpublic (+1) 4 The New School (-1) [...]

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Daily Brewery Porn Returns

January 12, 2011

A while back I had a photoblog up that featured my favorite beer-related pictures that I’ve taken over the years, Brookston Beer Pix. It got lost in the internet migration last year but it’s now been rechristened as a Tumblr blog. Each day I’ll post a new fave picture from my photo archives, of which [...]

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Wikio Beer Blog Rankings For January 2011

January 9, 2011

I noticed today that the Wikio Top Blogs for Beer badge on the Bulletin still listed me as the #1 beer blog, so out of pure vanity I checked it out to see if the new Beer Blog standings for January 2011 were out. Apparently, I’m still clinging to the top spot. Here’s what happened [...]

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Wikio Beer Blog Rankings For December

December 6, 2010

At first I wasn’t sure why I was asked to get a sneak preview of the rankings for beer blogs by Wikio and blog about them, apart from Stan recommending me and Alan, but I got a pleasant surprise when they finally arrived in my inbox. For the category Beer Blogs, which appears to cover [...]

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Ken Grossman One Of CHOW 13

September 20, 2010

Ken Grossman, the co-founder of Sierra Nevada Brewing was chosen by the food website CHOW as one of their CHOW 13 for 2010. They describe the 13 folks chosen as “honoring the people pushing the food world in new and adventurous directions.” Last year — the first year for the awards — Sam Calagione was [...]

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Red Lobster On Beer

August 26, 2010

This was originally mentioned in a Beer Advocate thread, started by Will C. of Virginia, and then spread out via Twitter as a worthy topic by Todd and Jason. I found it interesting, as well, as it concerns one of the national restaurant chains attempts to promote beer to their customers. The chain is Red [...]

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Beer Advocate’s Top 100 Beers On Planet Earth Annotated, Part 2

August 10, 2010

The latest list of the Top Beers on Planet Earth that Beer Advocate released yesterday was an experimental list, aimed at sparking a discussion so they could consider the best way to approach such lists in the future. After a day of constructive feedback, and some not so constructive I’m told, they’ve again redone the [...]

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