tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post2598442856051959041..comments2023-09-20T12:50:40.208+01:00Comments on Pete Brown: 2009: What the blazes was all THAT about? (Part Two)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03011702209832734676noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-48205291562303522022009-12-23T09:24:56.691+00:002009-12-23T09:24:56.691+00:00Pete
I meant W. Caxton- have to brush up on my com...Pete<br />I meant W. Caxton- have to brush up on my comic typingJohn Keelingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-66035877076744271642009-12-23T09:21:12.351+00:002009-12-23T09:21:12.351+00:00Thanks Pete. I have just returned to work and have...Thanks Pete. I have just returned to work and have not been near a computer so I have just read your blog. I will now send a copy to my boss.<br />I have bought a new joke book, this one was printed by a Mr T. Caxton!<br /><br />I'd like to meet Stu anyone who names a beer Ornette Coleman must be good <br />CheersJohn Keelingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-29211734429548840752009-12-22T09:33:09.652+00:002009-12-22T09:33:09.652+00:00Private Poontang,
A few years ago, a friend of mi...Private Poontang,<br /><br />A few years ago, a friend of mine who works in PR was working with a successful businessman who was investing some of his considerable fortune back into projects for young people in the community in which he grew up. A freelance journo was commissioned by the Mail to write the story. The night before the piece was due to run the journo phoned my friend almost in tears, and said the piece would not be running. When the journo had submitted it, the editorial bods had asked, "Well, is he fiddling with the kids?" No, he wasn't. "Is he on the make? Is it a scam?" No, it wasn't. It was just a good news story. "Well we don't want to run it then."<br /><br />This newspaper has an agenda of inculcating a climate of fear and hostility simply because it sells more newspapers.<br /><br />With regard to beer, they print stories they know not just to be distortions, but blatant untruth. Every time they use phrases like "the soaring binge drinking problem" or "Britain's rising alcohol consumption" they are quite deliberately lying to their million-plus readers. <br /><br />I get read by a few hundred people a day. It's hardly a level playing field, but whatever influence I might have, I feel morally compelled to stand against an agenda I feel is deliberately wicked (in the old fashioned sense) and threatens the community and the drink I love.<br /><br />Your raise some fair points, and I must point out that I attack this deliberate and inaccurate demonisation of alcohol wherever I see it - this year on this blog I've taken the Independent and the BBC to task just as vociferously as I have the Mail. I've attacked others - including the Guardian - elsewhere. It's just that the Mail does it more often than anyone else does.<br /><br />I don't know what 'playing to the gallery' actually means in this respect - I'm not just trying to win cheap applause. I don't need to do that, and it's not why I write. It genuinely angers me every time I see a bullshit article spreading damaging lies about our drinking culture. I believe it poses a real threat. I think the people who do it are morally suspect. And every now and again, calling them out on their lies actually succeeds in making them change or retract the story. That's why I do it. I wish more people did.<br /><br />I did have to think long and hard about taking money from the Mail this year. Part of me feels like a hypocrite for doing this. But they pay well and I needed the money, and if I was trying to justify myself I'd say it was another victory in that I got them to print a feature that had the truth about supposed binge drinking in it. It might have done some good.<br /><br />As for writers who put me into a cocked hat - that's your opinion, but please tell me who you think they are - I always like to learn from reading other writers.<br /><br />Finally - thanks for submitting your criticism in a civilised way! The internet is getting a bit like a jungle and it's unusual for someone with a beef like yours to actually take the time to express their disagreement in reasonable terms. That's why I've taken the time to write a full reply.<br /><br />Cheers - Merry Christmas!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03011702209832734676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-36673764970751047922009-12-21T23:28:21.147+00:002009-12-21T23:28:21.147+00:00I hope you don't mind me saying this but whils...I hope you don't mind me saying this but whilst I applaud your obvious skill and talent as a beer writer your continual attacks on the Daily Mail through posts such as SlopBucket of the Year actually just come over as a cheap and lazy attempt at playing to the gallery.<br />The Daily Mail is a fantastically successful newspaper with a ground-breaking style employing great writers who knock you into a cocked hat and whose views do not always toe the supposed editorial line.<br />Like any newspaper it appeals to the prejudices of its reader - the pisspoor Guardian is no different.<br />And as you have earned money this year for writing for this supposed Slopbucket your criticism just comes over as mere cant.<br />And no that is not a typo.Private Poontangnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-10507876224451662402009-12-20T17:58:00.550+00:002009-12-20T17:58:00.550+00:00Acceptance speech,
This has been my best brewing ...Acceptance speech,<br /><br />This has been my best brewing year to date I have never been happier with my beers than now. I have learnt more in the the last two and half years of brewing at Crown than the three years before. <br />I was supprised to even to get a mention so I’m very happy to be runner up to John.<br />Cheers Pete (all the beer bribes worked then)<br />I’d also like to say thanks on behalve of the Hillsborough Hotel, you know where to stay while your house hunting. ;-)Crown Breweryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06209404597552162037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-74280216941024217432009-12-19T11:30:43.337+00:002009-12-19T11:30:43.337+00:00And Ben McFarland's World's Best Beers pri...And Ben McFarland's World's Best Beers print run was increased at 11th hour because Waitrose wanted copies. The first beer book to be stocked alongside all those wine tomes. Is this lifestyle or progress?Jo Copesticknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-42890004693306477272009-12-19T00:16:56.247+00:002009-12-19T00:16:56.247+00:00Nice one Mr. Brown. Great way to glorify blogger s...Nice one Mr. Brown. Great way to glorify blogger scum. You're at your most interesting when you're carefully opening bottles of ale circa 1902. Other than that, you're just another beer writer impersonating Jesus. Enjoy a cold, crisp, Peroni while in total, blessed care mode.Whorsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01784943453195129865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-39416169249028782292009-12-18T20:35:05.863+00:002009-12-18T20:35:05.863+00:00well John C is from Stockport so a rouge herring i...well John C is from Stockport so a rouge herring it is. Ta for mention Pete. I agree too Cookie is brill. And a smart er.. cookie.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-77445546625166867502009-12-18T20:04:38.742+00:002009-12-18T20:04:38.742+00:00Pete totally agree with you on the greatness of Co...Pete totally agree with you on the greatness of Cooking Lager (and I reckon the John Clarke thing is yet another red herring), at the same time erudite, funny and balloon puncturing — I must admit I did wonder, whilst under the influence,if it was some situationist prank you were playing (Guy Debord and all that), but then I remembered modesty ain’t your strongest suit ;-)Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-73277619071074197842009-12-18T19:08:30.130+00:002009-12-18T19:08:30.130+00:00Cookie is great. I hope he enters the beer writers...Cookie is great. I hope he enters the beer writers competition next year and wins.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11319272987951077205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-27425305261982760582009-12-18T19:04:01.766+00:002009-12-18T19:04:01.766+00:00Thanks for the kind comments, Pete. It's reall...Thanks for the kind comments, Pete. It's really nice to have a bit of encouragement.Baileyhttp://boakandbailey.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-52564141541604184522009-12-18T18:40:40.423+00:002009-12-18T18:40:40.423+00:00I'm made up boos, ta very much for the mention...I'm made up boos, ta very much for the mention. Oh and I know who I am, I'm John Clarke of Stockton CAMRA.Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-26408089463487723612009-12-18T16:28:58.772+00:002009-12-18T16:28:58.772+00:00I agree the chilli beer does sound worth a taste<a href="http://http://www.a1tourism.com/uk/ross-on-wye.html" rel="nofollow">I agree the chilli beer does sound worth a taste</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-41616704941180195252009-12-18T15:50:49.010+00:002009-12-18T15:50:49.010+00:00I'm all aglow at makig this list and being inc...I'm all aglow at makig this list and being included in such good company here. <br /><br />That chili beer sounds outstanding! I must try the White Hart; it's just a bus ride away from me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30743480.post-25427060443834846392009-12-18T14:20:00.965+00:002009-12-18T14:20:00.965+00:00Nice one Pete, glad to see Stu getting runner up s...Nice one Pete, glad to see Stu getting runner up spot..he got a couple of runner's up on my look back at the year too.<br /><br />i had a cracking day out with him brewing the new ring of fire beer using my home grown chillis, and can't wait to try it.BeerReviewsAndyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13549567405003804994noreply@blogger.com