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Beer Culture writing needs to give up on Class warfare and focus on you know, beer.

The End. But seriously, I am seeing increasingly a number of beer writers attribute an event to their political leanings and less of honest observation and investigation. Bud Light is of course the biggest example of the last year but frankly I see it in other topics regularly. Media drives us all too often to divide and hate one another. Beer is a uniter, a social lubricant, the last thing people want to do at the end of a long day is bring politics into their Happy Hour. While I can name names I’d rather hope we can raise the level of beer discourse. To harken back to the words of Sam Calagione the industry used to be “99% asshole free” and I will grant you that is no longer the case, but the best approach to me is to at least pretend it still applies to brewing and beer writing. PS - This rant is a bit of taking Stan’s homework assignment to heart. Cheers, enjoy the rest of the weekend and support your local brewery.

Checking in

Old platform for Geistbear beer blog was dropped due to service issues. So I will redirect geistbear.com here for now. I was looking through internet archive and realized it's about 10 years to the day when I entered the beer industry professionally. Since then my writing has dropped off considerably, but I miss it. I miss posting musings and the conversations here, the short form tweets and faceposts carry too much arrogance, self rightousness, and seriousness. So let's see if this can bring backs some funny, so light hearted cheer, and a bit of optimism of what the beer industry could be. It's been a rough year plus and we could all use some fun.

Moved on...

Bear Droppings has long since been dead, but if you want to see what I am doing these days check out, Geistbear.com . It's not much at the moment, but I'll have a new look and content in the future, thanks for stopping by.
Thanks to the Accordion Guy I am playing with Blogware as the new host for Bear Droppings , or whatever the new name I decide. Frankly so far I like it, it has post titles, categories, RSS support, and a number of feautres I have been looking for so look over there for future posts. I'll keep this site up for a bit while I transfer and people move their blogrolls but that will be the new home. Or very soon www.geistbear.org will go there as well.