Tag: Writing

  
Objectives and Beer Results for 2021
Objectives and Beer Results (OBRs) for 2021 Beer Smack by

How-to convert your beer-related New Year’s resolutions into achievable goals by using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

Beware the Storysellers Beer Smack by

There’s a disturbing trend in beer journalism. In fact, unbeknownst to most readers, it’s lurked in the global beer scene for decades.

Full Disclosure Unfiltered by

As craft brewing matures, the quality of the reportage on all things beer should rise to match it. Quality writers are a crucial component in helping craft brewing grow in stature and seriousness in the public’s eye.

Jay Brooks, Co-chair, North American Guild of Beer Writers Last Call by

As beer journalism blows up right alongside craft beer, Jay Brooks, who has been writing about beer since 1992, is calling on old media to put an end to “sudsy” puns, and for new writers to slow down and really learn the craft.

Jenny Shank, Author of “Welcome to My Nanobrewery” Last Call by

In the narrative, Jenny Shank, a self-reported non-beer geek, gives craft brewers a gentle (and hilarious) ribbing … so we decided to ask her what was up with that.

My Friend and I Would Like You to Know The Politics of Beer by

The focus of our book will be top-quality craft brewing, and if global brewers have stopped making those, well, they’re just foolish. We would produce an atlas for explorers. It has surprised me just how much I have learned.

A New Era of Beer Writing Unfiltered by

For those of us who write about beer for a living, we need to do more. We need to write about people and place as much as we do about product.

Becoming a Beer Critic Unfiltered by

If you dare to raise a question about a favored brewery’s latest beer or the quality of a particular brewpub’s lineup, prepare to witness passion turn quickly to fury.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate the Industry Feature by

The complaints and expectations about beer are reaching whole new levels. And the snobbery and superiority factors among craft beer lovers over macro drinkers are becoming shameful and embarrassing.

O.G. Beer Geek: Why We’ve Got Nothing on Anton, the Original BeerAdvocate Hall of Fame by

Anton Schwarz, the Bohemian immigrant and editor of The American Brewer until his death in 1895, racked up more geek cred in a few years than any of us could in a lifetime.