{"id":7531,"date":"2011-09-01T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=7531"},"modified":"2018-07-13T07:40:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T13:40:33","slug":"which-beer-community-are-you-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/which-beer-community-are-you-talking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Which beer community are you talking about?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deep into a discussion at A Good Beer Blog<\/a> that has a bit of everything — cyclical malaise, math, hop breeding, Stephen Beaumont, blog comment of the year<\/a> from Bailey — host Alan McLeod added another topic.<\/a><\/p>\n

(Editor’s note:<\/strong> A Good Beer Blog moved since this was written, so the links don’t work but the post and comments have been archived by Wayback Machine<\/a>. Or you can visit the post in its new home<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I still don’t believe in beer community. Not one person has shown up to help me move the furniture. Pity the person who confuses people who sell you stuff for their best friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I commented that perhaps he should give that thought a thread of its own (before I did). He replied, “You start it and, in response, I will both bolster the point and yet confuse it with other tangential baggage that makes it lose its way.”<\/p>\n

At the time I was reading a post by Rob Fullmer’s at Beer PHXation about the Phoenix beer blogging community,<\/a> which obviously includes a discussion of the local beer community and why “our beer culture seems incomplete and disconnected.” At the end he writes, “Let’s build a community.”<\/p>\n

So a few thoughts and\/or questions jump out:<\/p>\n

– Is Alan serious?<\/p>\n

– Do people consciously build beer-centric communities or does beer end up playing a larger role in an already existing community?<\/p>\n

– Do the beer communities of Asheville, N.C., and Bamberg, Germany, overlap or exist in separate spheres? <\/p>\n

– Are brewers (or breweries) and beer enthusiasts part of the same beer community?<\/p>\n

– Are brewers (or breweries) and beer enthusiasts part of the same community? My answer to that one is brewery owners need to understand how important that is. At least at the basic community level, that being the one in which show up to help move the furniture<\/em> is part of the discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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