MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 02.16.15
Announcing my next beer book: “What are you drinking?” No really, do you know?
Writer Pete Brown announced his next book — called “What Are You Drinking” — will be published by Unbound, which combines crowdfunding and traditional publishing. That’s if enough people step up with pledges, which should be a slam dunk. I already have, even though reading his book might leave readers with the silly idea they know all they need to about hops. He’s a known quantity. Maybe that sounds simple, but that’s the same reason I’ll download Steve Earle’s latest when it is released tomorrow and James McMurtry’s a week from tomorrow. If you need convincing, there’s an excerpt here — or you can just pledge here (they take PayPal). [Via Pete Brown]
December, 1919 – Chapter 3.
I have already mentioned Oliver Gray’s serialized novel once and promise not to do this every week or even every month. However, a year ago he and his wife braved a long, snowy drive to attend the Craft Writing conference in Lexington, Ky. During preparations for my presentation I exchanged emails with several writers about the future of beer writing, specifically narrative in nature. Pete was one of them, in fact. Interesting to have “What Are You Drinking” and “December, 1919” arrive this quickly. [Via Literature & Libation]
Why We Need More Professional Beer Criticism.
Brewery owner Jesse Friedman, who for obvious reasons would like for beer to get all the attention it can, asks the question “Why don’t major food publications have full time beer critics?” I’m pretty sure “critic” is not actually what he means. [Via Eater]
Advice for young winewriters.
Jamie Goode follows up his amusing takedown on wine writing — which rather easily extrapolates into other drink writing — with some serious advice, which also is relative to all drink writing. [Via jamie goode’s wine blog]
In Which I Apply to be a Beer Writer at Thrillist.
AB InBev didn’t buy another smaller American brewery last week or roll out a new commercial about brewing beer the hard way, so Thrillist filled the void, generating plenty of fussing. To the writer’s credit, he went out of his way to point out how to pronounce gose. [Via This Is Why I Am Drunk]
Finally, actual writing about beer rather than writing about writing:
Oskar Blues looking at purchasing smaller breweries.
This flips takeover talk on its head. It is also related to a Twitter exchange I was part of last week. [Via The Denver Post}