Session #62 announced: What Drives Beer Bloggers?

The SessionAngelo at Brewpublic has announced the topic for The Session #62: “What Drives Beer Bloggers?”

Yes, the obvious answer should be: A designated driver.

But let’s get right to the navel gazing.1

Your mission as a craft beverage blogger reading this post, should you choose to accept it, is to compose a post on the topic of “What Drives Beer Bloggers.” There are no rigid guidelines about how to write about this topic but we’d certainly love to hear about the history behind your blog, your purpose in creating it, its evolution, and/or what your goals in keeping it going.

The date is April 6. I might write about “10 things you might not know about Alan McLeod but I do because I read his blogs (plural).” Or maybe the 10 cleverest lines in the history of Appellation Beer. Except they’d all be comments, and what would that tell you about me?

More seriously, bloggers are an important part of a particular beer niche, one that sociologists will be studying for years to come. This should help them.

1 For the record, references to navel gazing may or may not be intended as snark. But it has become standard in some of the blogging places I hang out to use the phrase to remind ourselves to write about beer rather than, blush, ourselves.

4 thoughts on “Session #62 announced: What Drives Beer Bloggers?”

  1. You forgot #1 reason beer bloggers blog. Driving links to their page… like with a little html action… hint.

    If any of use were not web traffic stats nerds there would be no beer blogging.

    (Note to Alan: Hint taken. Links inserted.)

  2. In America I believe that we have a new beer revolution happening. The people will change the course of what the Mega- beer industies have created. The web beer blogger are the educators of the general public . They bring more information to the people without the commerical marketing lies and falisies. As bloggers we need to change government and lobbyists from changing laws that prohibits competition and innovation in the beer industry, So all Americans will be able to drink real beer.

  3. We mention navel gazing from time to time as a pre-emptive cringe to ward off attacks from the bigger kids. Nothing wrong with a bit of navel gazing every now and then.

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