We run our business a little differently, something you can do if you publish a magazine about beer and put on events about beer. We have two staff meetings a week — Monday morning sets the week up and Friday afternoon closes it, which we do every week at Tyler’s Taproom, Durham’s largest multitap bar. Nearly... View Article
Quite often being the publisher of a beer magazine is just too cool. Like yesterday. The public relations people from one of my all time favorite brewers, Boston Beer, sent me a box half the size of my desk. In it were three four-packs of their “Imperial Series,” each bottle individually wrapped. And I’m... View Article
I went to a limited release party, my first, at Foothills Brewery, down the street in Winston Salem for the release of Sexual Chocolate in bottles. What an event! Actually four events linked together. Prior to the release of Sexual Chocolate, Foothills Brewery hosted what could only be called a beer swap, which became a... View Article
The Columbia version of the World Beer Festival was wonderful. With two other very mature, very savvy events, I’d forgotten how much fun a beer festival in a new, fresh town could be. The average age was higher. People talked beer with the brewers, with each other. They took notes in the program book. (Shazaam!)... View Article
It’s festival weekend in Columbia, South Carolina. Our third World Beer Festival concept. After 15 years in Durham, 5 years in Raleigh, we’re adding a third in a new state. Which means a lot of public relations time for me, leading me to this whole idea of becoming an “expert.” One reader simply asked if... View Article
BOB Begins. I’m not sure how this voyage, Bradford on Beer or BOB, really begins. I simply want to become an expert on beer. After all these years in the industry I want to invest the time in learning about this beverage I love and have worked for all these years. It’s going to be... View Article
This is the beginning of my adventure into the world of beer, and only beer. I haven’t started the trip, yet. Consider this a placeholder comment. Cheers, Daniel
