beer school | learning to like more than one kind of beer.

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1. purekona had this to say on January 28, 2008 | Permalink

   1]some mole, ehh?? Just to give you a heads up - the term for beer steward has changed. Ray Daniels, author of “Designing Great Beers” and former editor of Zymurgy magazine, is promoting the term “cicerone”. Daniels now offers a “Cicerone Certification Program” [http://www.cicerone.org/]for waiters and bar employees! It’s like Beer School without the absinthe…
   2]Re: Beer Party story. So you went to the party and 20 of the 30 people were drinking wine! And whose fault is it that these louts are ignorant vinophiles? WHO said they were going to do a show about “Beer vs. Wine”
   and then didn’t follow through, ehh?? I bet if you Had done the “Beer vs. Wine” episode your podcast would have won an award!!! Quit Whining. Voters don’t want sommeliers with good taste, they want beer that tastes good!!!
   Aloja

2. purekona had this to say on January 29, 2008 | Permalink

   You could use what happened at the party as a parable of how poorly A&B/Miller/Coors are doing in satisfying the America’s powerful
   thirst in these End Times. Here the major brewers are spending millions in ads trying to prop up a failing larger monoculture and they are getting nowhere. And the proof - at a party billed as a “beer party”, 20 out of 30 attendees are drinking wine! Craft Beers, the beers made with taste and variety, are the only segment of the beer industry that’s growing! Craft Beer has the taste, character and nuance to stand up to wine and people need to hear that on shows like this!