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Truth in beer reporting and other novel concepts
Well said!! I started out reviewing beers and then realized its pointless because I don't care what some random douche from the internet says about a beer. If I want to know about a beer I will ask my friends and the people I trust in person.— August 13, 2013 3:48 p.m.
Truth in beer reporting and other novel concepts
"While on the panel, I shared my wish that beer writers would tell the truth. I also said it would be great if those same folks would stop being so happy about getting free beer and being on the craft beer gravy train." Way to insult every beer blogger out there. If you ask me beer bloggers do a lot more for the industry then the paid journalist do. Yea, some of us get free beer but we aren't getting paid by a newspaper or online publication to write about beer, we do it out of love and if every so often a blogger gets a free beer from a brewery, an event ticket or even a comped beer at a bar they write about it so be it. I know a lot of beer bloggers and many if not most are very objective and will write about bad too, I know I do. Heck, I wrote a post that was critical of the Brewers Association and The Savor festival as well as one attacking the Cicerone program. Some applauded me privately yet many attacked me publicly. If anyone is riding the craft beer gravy train it is you being a writer about the industry while holding down a paid job with a brewery. If you want to be truly objective and you truly care to hell with disclosures which are hollow and empty, quit your job at Stone. If you want to be critical of anyone in the beer scene about being on the gravy train attack those on Beer Advocate or Rate Beer that only care about super hoppy and rare/limited beers, those who hoard such beers for trading, sell beers on ebay or do other acts that are not in the true spirit of craft beer. I'd link to my blog here but I don't think it would be appropriate, yet I think you need to do some soul searching and seek out the truth in yourself. Are you a beer writer or someone paid by a brewery that rights about other breweries both positively and negatively yet claims to be unbiased? You my friend are the one riding the gravy train and I'd be careful before it gets derailed and you find yourself on the unemployment train.— August 13, 2013 noon