Despite the serious gains achieved by beer as a product in terms of respect, beer writing as profession or professional pursuit has never really achieved similar heights. In fact, beer writing doesn’t get much love, from the industry, the drinking public, and the media aristocracy. While editors and publishers over the last few months have [...]
Continue reading about Media Draft: Beer Books Go Beyond The Generic
I was recently perusing the soon-to-be published titles list on Amazon the other day when I came across this little page on the 365 Bottles of Beer for the Year Page-A-Day Calendar for 2009. The ubiquitous calendar, which can be found on the desk of every beer lover and half the fathers in America, has [...]
Continue reading about Media Draft – Is Charlie Papazian Trying to Put Beer Writers Out of Work?
Wow, there sure is a lot to loathe about Beer Magazine. Published by Think Omnimedia LLC, creator of such illustrious titles as Xtreme RC Cars and RC Heli Magazines, this full-gloss, bi-monthly mag is the newest addition to the increasingly crowded beer magazine niche. The editorial trick with Beer Magazine appears to be a marriage [...]
For a while, I’ve wanted to do a media criticism feature on BeerScribe.com to comment on the various magazines, newspapers, websites, films, and television programs that cover our beloved subject. Media is very close to my heart and I have long believed it is important that writers, editors, bloggers, publishers, and visual producers treat beer [...]
Continue reading about Media Draft – Beer Northwest Magazine
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