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Apparently this blog has been nominated in the category of Best Beer Blog in the first annual Canadian Food Blog Awards, which comes as both an honour and a surprise. My Thanks to Beer and Butter Tarts for the nomination, and congratulations to all the other nominees.
Guess I better watch the tyops typos until after the judging is over…,
Back in my office after a lovely, warm week in the sun, I was contemplating what to write as a year-end post when I came across this missive from my friend and publisher, John Hansell.
What does John know, really?
Contradicting his own claim that he is not a great whisky writer, John neatly sums up what is or should be in the heart of every writer on whisky, beer, wine or any other beverage. And so, with great thanks and unapologetic larceny, I will take his words as my own and leave you with this thought for the year:
See y’all next year!
Now get off the computer and open yourself a nice beer!
Heads up, folks, the first ever Toronto Beer Week kicks off on Monday and it’s looking like it will be a good one. I’ll be presenting a bunch of events — like my Malt & Molluscs Monday at Starfish and Wednesday’s Malt Magic beer and single malt pairing at The Monk’s Table — but also attending a lot more.
Yesterday, I posted my picks for the week at my thatsthespirit.com blog. Rather than repeat them all here, why not just follow this link and check them out?!
You may notice that World of Beer looks a bit different now, primarily because I’ve finally taken the time to figure out how these widget thingys work. (Next up: twitter?) And if you look to the right, you’ll notice that the Facebook badge touts a blurb of text along the lines of “Colorado, USA: Avery Brewing Company’s…” You may wonder what it all means.
Well, first off, it means that if you’re on Facebook and haven’t already liked the World of Beer page, well, shame on you. You’re missing out on reviews like the one I posted about Greg Nash’s tremendous Kryptonite from Halifax’s Hart & Thistle a few days ago, not to mention the easiest way imaginable to keep up to date on new posts here and at my other two blogs.
More importantly, however, it touts my review of a limited edition, barrel-aged beer from Colorado’s Avery Brewing, which is everything I could write in 420 characters and much, much more. The bad news is that precious little of this wonderful, 9.9% ale – I still can’t believe it’s that strong! – made it outside of Boulder. On the positive side, though, the label on the bottle i have states “60 cases shared, 37 hoarded.” So there’s hope yet!
Thee real world unfortunately interfered with posting Saturday through Monday. More tomorrow. Promise!
For the past four years, I’ve been responsible for the Beaumont’s Beer Blog over at thatsthespirit.com. After some recent discussion, however, the powers-that-be at TTS and I have decided to fold the Beer Blog and replace it with a new blog focused on all things beverage, whether beer, spirits, cocktails or wine. We call it…
Beaumont Drinks!
We took it live just this week and I’ve two posts up already. The first deals with the question of value in beer, wine, spirits and cocktails, while the second takes to task the drinks columnist in the new issue of Sharp Magazine.
Check them out, and if you like what you read, leave a comment and/or subscribe to the RSS feed by clicking the icon in the address field of your browser. (We’re still sorting the page out and a proper subscription link is forthcoming.) I look forward to seeing you there!
That title says it all, folks. I’m thrilled to welcome to World of Beer our first official assistant/contributor/social media expert/provider of keen insight, none other than The Beer Wench herself, Ashley Routson!
Beginning with next month’s Great Lakes Craft Brewers and Water Conservation Workshop and Craft Brewers Conference, Ashley will be providing contributor posts to add to your beery elucidation here at WoB, and as we go forward with the redesign of the original site — yes, Jack, it really is going to happen! — she’ll also be helping my ancient and out-of-touch self understand all these networking sites and tweetings and widgets and other assorted InterWeb stuff.
So welcome aboard, Wench. Now get to work!