Adding a Little Panache to Beer Reviews

It's funny. but in reviewing beers, writing jokes, stories, poems and such, I never really try to do anything particular. Once I start it either works or it doesn't, any time of day. Trying to be funny is like trying not to be overweight. It just sorta is.....

 

“Write what you know.” - Mark Twain

 

FUNNY!?! You think I'm funny?!? Funny, how? What, I make you laugh? Like a clown makes you laugh? You think I'm a clown? That I'm here to amuse you? How inna f**k am I funny? Beer is serious business & don't none a yinz jagovs lose sight a that!

 

Clowns Can make you laugh or Can make you cry. Laugh out Loud! Cheers..

 

I like a good clinical review, à la @superspak. But @RaulMondesi's reviews are a hoot. Frankly, I enjoy both types and pretty much everything in between. YMMV.

 

I will henceforth use panache in every beer review I write.

Panache or quiche.

 

THIS guy can write a review!

"Beautiful textures like Princess Jasmine weaving a pair of silk skivvies. "

Poetry!! Haha!

 

Based on what I've read on the internet over the years this advice is either lost upon or ignored by some folks.

 

Perhaps Mark Twain really meant, "Write what you think you know, want to believe, or have been trained to believe". This is Pavlovian Twainism.

 

Youre in jersey...i follow @woodychandler . Id check his reviews. He drinks many a beer and being only 2 hours from west jersey the distro is similar.

 

Just as a baseline, I would wish that any review would be a good honest appraisal, and that I might have trust in the reviewer, or to believe that he/she might be a decent judge of beers. As far as language and entertainment go, I think it is imperative that if one thinks to embellish, elaborate, postulate, entertain, inform, or otherwise be a positive force for furthering info about beer, I'm all in. Humor leavens all of the edges.

 

I just try to describe my perception of the beer as I'm drinking it. My reviews tend to be intentionally short since I find I seldom finish reading long, verbose reviews.

 

On a. Side note, if a review is too over the top , it could get deleted, and then the time spent reviewing is lost.

 

"Now go get your fuckin shine box!"

 

Prolly get nixed, but enjoy while you may -- just look up "Bugs Bunny Laugh Clown" on YouseTube.

You know, funny stuff!

 

Identifying subtle flavors/tastes isn’t a laughable ability. I’ve expanded my own beer vocabulary and appreciation quite a lot by reading reviews by tasters who can name things I couldn’t quite put my finger on. The worst, though, is when someone nails something really unsavory, like a “vomit” smell in kettle sours. Now I feel like that’s all I smell when I drink one.

 

poetic. this made me laugh