The return of Pint/CounterPint at LouisvilleBeer.com

Lots of fun doing this one. AtG's Adam Watson is a worthy partner in repartee, eh?

Pint/CounterPint – Should [City] Craft Beer Week be the Same Week as American Craft Beer Week? by John Wurth

Pint/CounterPint was created when Adam Watson (Against the Grain Brewery) wrote a loving response to the first Baylor on Beer article, Know your Enemy, written by Roger Baylor (New Albanian Brewing Company). At first we laughed whole-heartedly and admired the conviction and stance of both parties, and then we thought, “Hey, wait a minute… remember that old 60 Minutes segment called Point/Counterpoint?”

For those of you that don’t, Point/Counterpoint was a segment of the CBS Television News Magazine, 60 Minutes. Point/Counterpoint was a debate between spokespeople for the political right and left, respectively. This segment pioneered a format that would later be adapted by CNN for its Crossfire show. LouisvilleBeer.com adopted the format for an online debate between Adam and Roger. Welcome to Round 6. DING!

MillerCoors: Insulting the nation's intelligence as journalists masturbate.

Someone please tell Miller, Coors, Blue Moon, Leinenkugel, this business-oriented newspaper, the man in the moon pie, and anyone else interested in reality, as opposed to hype, that one cannot merely snap corporate fingers and decree mass-market as “craft.”

MillerCoors launches craft and import beer business

As with the famous definition of obscenity, we need not launch into a lengthy explanation of the meaning of craft to grasp that MillerCoors calling Blue Moon “craft” is like calling a shit sandwich a Philly Cheese Steak.

The Business "Press Release as News" Courier's typically unquestioning attitude toward publishing pure propaganda provides insight into the overall decline of journalism in America.

Give me a break, you shameless assholes. And I do mean all of you, too.

It's American Craft Beer Week. Need an excuse to have a beer?

The Brewers Association is our official trade group, and its nationwide American Craft Beer Week promotion starts tomorrow and runs during the coming week (May 17-23).

In addition, Indiana Beer Week runs the week preceding the annual guild festival in Broad Ripple on July 17, and there'll be a Louisville Craft Beer Week from September 24 through October 2. That's three craft beer weeks. Why not make every week a craft beer week, and name each one after yourself, your home, house pets, children ... whatever?

But seriously: There can't be too many. Breweries across the country have scheduled tastings, fests, dinners, brew-ins and numerous other individualistic local happenings to recognize American Craft Beer Week. To see what's up, check individual local brewery websites and go here.