Comments on: Yes, But Which Words Do You Like?

By: The Beer Nut

The Beer Nut — Thu, 03 May 2012 10:38:34 +0000

Jesus no. I’m not even trying to make a living out of the beer I make and it’s at least half made from bloody mindedness as love. If you have a profit motive — like to eat food, pay rent etc — you can’t say that a pure love of beer is why you’re doing it.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:32:22 +0000

Can we just define craft beer as beer that is made with pure love?

I forget who I was reading the other day but someone argued that although Thornbridge would quite happily class themselves as a craft brewery, surely they’re not as their new brewery is all digitalised…

By: Knut Albert

Knut Albert — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:21:02 +0000

Volume challenged breweries.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:17:43 +0000

Write what you want. for someone to go online and moan about terms used in beer language is a bit beyond the pale (no pun intended) if you ask me. Plenty of people have moaned about generics – ‘hoppy’ , ‘roasty’, but if your audience is people that don’t know about beer and want to explore, there’s nothing wrong with that. once you start censoring language like that, you’re one step away from Jilly Goolden, and that’s not where us earthy beer drinkers want to be, right?

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:57:51 +0000

I have been kicking around “popular beer” in my head for a few weeks as most that are popular are in fact quite popular. Not sure what the opposite is but it might fit with alternative beers.

By: Bailey

Bailey — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:17:47 +0000

PF — don’t think we’ve used ‘movement’, but we reserve the right to do so!

Nate — cask conditioning is a very ‘craft’ thing to do — a lot of hassle, inefficient and very traditional, but done out of love, in most cases.

Broadfordbrewer — ah-hah, yes, we do keep an eye on Zac’s stuff. The way people talk about music (pop/punk/indie) reminds us a lot of the beer conversation. Maybe mainstream/industrial/macro beers could be called pop beers? There’s good pop, and plenty of bad indie. (Problem being, of course, that ‘pop’ means something else in the context of beverages…)

Phil — yes, it’s reall wearying trying to have a conversation and having the language you’re using become the issue rather than the point you’re making.

By: broadfordbrewer

broadfordbrewer — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:29:54 +0000

sorry pubman79

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:19:48 +0000

Good points well made, I too find it tiresome having to try using words so as not to offend the blog overlords etc, after all everyone has different levels of beer/tasting/brewing knowledge & depth of vocabulary. Should that stop them writing about their beer love, I think not good sirs…

Cheers my fellow craft movement blogerati ale revolutionaries

POWER TO THE PEOPLE! *Wolfie “The Keg” Smith

By: pubman79

pubman79 — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:06:16 +0000

The words don’t bother me as I interpret them my way anyway. I do not like smiley faces though they should be outlawed.

By: broadfordbrewer

broadfordbrewer — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:03:11 +0000

Just checked the comments on that post – it seems you are already aware of it