Let's have at it. Anyone can make a blog. Anyone can spout. Not everyone can make us drink. Today there are enough breweries to make your room spin. Dean Martin once said, "If you're not drunk you can lie on the floor without holding on." Fair enough. The days of martinis and filter-less cigarettes are gone. The Rat-Pack a capsule of misogyny. The tangent is over...
I'm sure you're wondering who the lamb-chop sideburn fellow is. What's the deal with the ring? Who takes a picture mid-sip with a rheumy-eyed gaze?
Michael Jackson. Yes, that is his real name and folks, he is the greatest drinks journalist of all time. His 1978 book The World Guide To Beer influenced the front end generation of what would become the craft brewing boom.
He also started--at the time controversial--process of rating beer and whiskey. A catalyst. We're all building from it.
Here are three Beer Blogs that would never exist had Michael Jackson not.
Some interesting stuff here, but not systematically considered--nor rounded with relevant links.
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