PR: Boston's premier German Beer Fest to put Germany back on the Beer Map

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[snip self-aggrandizing tripe]

While I applaud the interesting styles presented (Goze, etc.) I think it is the height of arrogance to claim that German beer needs any help with its reputation from some beer-rating website.

_Randal

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Randal

I have to admit, too, that somehow, it had clean slipped my mind that Germany even needed to put back on any "beer map." Who knew? It seemed as recent as last October that Germany was still pretty prominent there, with all those breweries and beer and stuff. Did it disappear in the last few months? If it did, well, I just hate it when a whole country up 'n' disappears off the beer map like that.

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d.g.s.

I think German beer is wayyy under appreciated in the States and that's the whole point of the post, isn't it?

Reply to
Bill Becker

"Bill Becker" wrote on 14 Sep 2007:

I think the whole point of the post is attempting to find an angle from which to advertise a beer festival, regardless of how inane the copy (or advertisers) might be.

Witzel

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Dave Witzel

"Most"? When did "we" take that poll?

Reply to
jesskidden

I think that the centuries of german brewing history and standard setting allows them to be considered cartographers, and I suspect that most of us would agree. Present company excepted of course. Not to say that brewers in other countries don't produce fine innovative products because they clearly do. But the german brewing industry has had such an impact on brewing practices for such a long time that they clearly wrote the map.

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John S.

Well if the Germans are cartographers, the Egyptians must be the creators of the papyrus paper that the map centuries later were to be written on?

(I think the map analogy has plenty of life in it yet :~)

I actually think it's impossible to say which nation had more of an impact on the 'beer map' - (leaving aside Mesopotamia, Sumeria, Egypt, etc) there's Belgium, England, CzechRep, Germany, etc - they've all had a huge impact on the progression of quality beer production, or on the variety of styles, or on encouraging us to see beer as a thing to be valued. I don't agree that Germany has any more right to the crown than several others. cheers MikeMcG

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MikeMcG

I actually agree that no one country wrote the map - many were involved over a long time. I was trying to make a point about the absurdity of the OP saying his beer fest would put Germany back on the beer map.

Reply to
John S.

Right, that's like me buying a sixer of Heineken and calling it a Dutch Beer Fest that'll put the Netherlands back on the beer map...

Reply to
TechMyst

On 9/28/2007 8:37 PM Blue ignored two million years of human evolution to write:

What's this mean?

Reply to
d.g.s.

heheh... literally means 'not understand' [nicht verstehen].

that's right, germany and beer go together. impossible to think otherwise. no need to put it back on any 'map'.

cheers [

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Saudades

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