In the interest of fair play, I thought I’d link to the response of Anat Baron, producer and director of the recent Beer Wars release, to the heavy criticism that has pounded her film since its release a few weeks back. The response is probably not going to be what most industry-related critics of the [...]

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At the beginning of his keynote address to the Craft Brewers Conference in Boston, Stone Brewing Company’s CEO and co-founder Greg Koch played a video he and others had collaboratively produced for the occasion. It is a great video, especially the first minute or so (a great viral or television commercial in itself) and was [...]

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To put it mildly, next week is going to be busy. Several hundred craft brewers from around the world will descend on Boston for the annual Craft Brewers Conference. There are events, both industry and consumer, spread throughout the city and it’ll be nice to catch up with the community. I expected we’d lay low [...]

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Andy on April 17th, 2009

We’re headed to the annual Boston Beer Summit event tonight at the Castle here in Boston. It’s a nice chance to run into beer industry folks who don’t often make it to other events in the area. And it’s definitely a different crowd from the BeerAdvocate events at the Cyclorama. It’s going to be a [...]

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It’s been a long day, what with the Beer Wars pre-gaming with the folks from Cambridge Common, the film, and then the Lucero concert. Nonetheless, I thought I’d end with a few thoughts on the film. All told, I think the film fell surprisingly flat. The odd thing is that with all of my critical [...]

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