Archive for May, 2006

Beer needs more beat reporters

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Sometimes, actually many times, Lew Bryson should call his monthly post The Rant rather than The Buzz. In a piece titled Just Like Wine he tackles the bias food writers/editors’ have toward wine over beer and newspapers’ general “gee whiz” attitude toward beer. This latter atttidue served breweries well enough a decade ago, when a [...]

But do you care if light beer is intelligent?

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Today’s New York Times (free registration) has still another story about an advertising effort from a large brewer, in this case Miller Brewing, that takes the high (brow) road: “Beer Ads That Ditch the Bikinis, but Add Threads of Thought.” Erv Frederick, the vice president for marketing at Miller, says that the company “wanted to [...]