Comments on: Reviewing pubs and beers without looking like a geek

By: Not-extreme beer at GBBF, from Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog

Not-extreme beer at GBBF, from Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:42:29 +0000

[...] (that’s a good thing). I liked it a lot, but not as much as Rogue chocolate stout, which my phone tells me I’ve drunk before, but which I don’t recall being as tasty as it seemed this [...]

By: leigh

leigh — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:36:50 +0000

jeff – nice tip on the pump clips!

By: Velky Al

Velky Al — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:11:49 +0000

At a festival near Prague I was taking pictures of the beers I had bought from a small brewer, when asked why I told him straight – I have a blog and I am going to write about your beer on Monday. He wouldn’t let me pay for another beer all day.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:30:16 +0000

I have snapped pump clips with my mobile phone camera before. If I get a quizzical look I just explain I want to remember the beer’s name so I can try it again. Easy.

By: leigh

leigh — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:40:31 +0000

oh god…yeah, that’s me. Feverishly sipping, no matter if alone or with company, texting in my ‘drafts’ setting and saving the texts…i have done pen and paper at one point! and then there’s taking covert pictures of the pump clips or bottles! that’s a whole different world.

By: Boak

Boak — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:19:52 +0000

Ah, the old “page of poetry” trick. Bet he was really rating your landlord.

Sometimes I do want to get detailed facts straight. Usually I can rely on my memory (and the internet) to remember the name of a beer, but I’ve missed writing about a couple of corkers because I couldn’t remember the name of the brewery and google let me down.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:15:34 +0000

…by which I mean you need to get detailed facts straight.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:07:00 +0000

Someone came in my pub and started taking notes. I took the liberty of looking over his shoulder to see what he was scribbling. He was writing poetry. Bless his cottons.

Taking notes about pubs and beers is very odd unless you’re acting as a journalist.

By: Paul Garrard

Paul Garrard — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:34:32 +0000

I also love spreadsheets – how sad is that?
I actually use them to generate some of my html code around my beer tastings it works a treat and is so fast once set up.

I’ll get me coat!

By: Boak

Boak — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:49:51 +0000

I think Bailey is trying to imply I’m a Massive Geek. Just coz I like to organise my life via spreadsheets.

I’ve never taken it as far as putting beers I’ve drunk on one, though…