MR | Third Edition, May 2013 | Drunken Speculation

Last week on our blog:

I spent a bit of time over the weekend compiling a full list of our reviews in a convenient table format. You can access it from the menu under #Review. There are bonus statistics included – apparently we like Victorian beers and pale ales. Also, we could use some more friends on Untappd…you know, if you want to.

Anyway, here’s some good reads from other beer sources:

Plenty of people get excited about Good Beer Week in Melbourne – Ozbeerbaron, 7 Cent Brewery, Crafty Pint, From Beer to Eternity & girl+beer
And GABS – Crafty Pint
I got more excited about Bad Beer Week – beer bar band
Against Hoppy Beer – Slate
And the response – Apellation Beer, Hoppy Ever After
Murray’s Brewery for sale – ABN
The Eight Trappist Breweries – I Think About Beer
The Bicep’s Back – Crafty Pint
Cascade First Harvest hits shelves – The Shout
The earliest use of the term India pale ale was … in Australia? – Zythophile
Savoring the Principles of Craft Beer and Food Pairings – Huffington Post (h/t beerupyourlife)
Using your beer pump clips wisely – The Journal
No Tap King for CUB – The Shout
A day in the Brisbane CBD – Ozbeerbaron
US government wants to change the definition of ‘drunk’ – Washington Post
Taunton man sees ball game – Shut Up About Barclay Perkins
More red tape – The Shout

You may have read the Slate article above. The two responses out of the fifty-odd blogs I follow are also above and were published almost immediately after. Funny thing is that I’m more inclined to agree with the Slate editorial – there is too heavy an emphasis on hoppiness in craft beers and too machismo in who can make the bitterest, hoppiest or strongest beers. The problem is that the Slate author sounds like a total prat and overlooks the fact that it’s probably just a passing fad. As IPAs were the in-thing for a year, so Belgian or German styles will be and after that, it’ll be all about amber ales (looking forward to it!).

And to dilute the beery nature of MR: