Rounding Up Contributions To The Session #145 — Critique Not Criticism

A little later than planned (due to a malaise brought upon by a rather jovial stag weekend in Dublin celebrating the imminent nuptials of my pal Gareth) I’ve finally got around to collating entries to this month's session. Positing that there’s not enough proper critique in beer writing compared, say, to restaurant or wine writing, I asked writers to deliver a critique of their own, and received nine different responses. I also published my own critique, with interesting results, and I’ll share a bit more insight on that after the roundup. If you contributed to Session #145 and don’t see your post in this list please share the link with me and I’ll update this post accordingly. *** To start, over at A Good Beer Blog Alan McLeod —who has been liberally applying critique to beer writing for as long as I’ve been reading it— considers the act of critique within beer writing at large . He references the late Michael Jackson, who famously said if he didn’t like a beer he simply wouldn’t writ

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