Long-time Journalists Relaunch All About Beer

It was the best beer publication ever bar none. Those of us that were there at the advent of this modern beer revolution/evolution still revere this seminal journal. It helped light the fire!

 

I never bought into Ozark. It was overwrought and not authentic. We tried it again and it was still just too stilted. The mob? I'll stick with ancient Nordic tales.

 

Wrong thread?

 

I subscribed for many years. They were a Godsend after coming back from the UK, as there wasn't any internet I had access to... I am also a sucker for a big glossy mag to this day

 

I was always thrilled to find it at my favorite news stand. It would sit burning on the seat on my ride home...

 

My subscriptions were delivered to the office and I would carry them home in a briefcase.

 

All I can say is "Yay! Welcome back AAB!"

 

That magazine looks great and a reminder of how crazy our world has gotten today in clown world that doesn’t make much sense to most people over the age of 30. Fast cars, fast women, beer, cool macho celebrity interviews, sign me up (and Al Bundy, Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimble want a subscription as well).

 

I would like to think that things were simpler in that recent past, but wait, there's more.... They were never simple. Holy mackerel Buckwheat!!!!!

 

"The past is never dead. It's not even past".

William Faulkner

 

That is such a profound statement and understated sentiment. I should never have forgotten that the past is alive, and that fearsome quote. I could try to tell you the stories that I know of the 900 years of my relatives that still thrill and haunt me. The Tombigbee and Black Warrior Rivers to the Von Poellnitz brothers, UVA educated Confederate doctors commemorated on The Rotunda on a brass placard. My Father, a true hero of Leyte and elsewhere. It all makes my political skin crawl with an odd knowing. Even General Eugene Johnston, the Shacklefords, and Holts truly live in all that I do and know.

 

Recent episode talks about the relaunching process, as well as the content + involvement (e.g. illustrators, photographers, editors)


STEAL THIS BEER

 

Was AAB primarily an East Coast publication? I don't remember it in the micro beer days, but hey, that was a while ago.

 

I found it at book stores (remember those?) here in the Midwest before I subscribed -- back in the early 90s.