I am a rookie in the world of brewed beverages. Any recommendations?

[Max]

www.lambic.info averages approximately 7 views a day. Happy to share some insight.

and i just gave you another one.

 

[JulianB1]

So I checked out the blog this morning while taking a loud, nasty dump at work. The old school Pittsburgh Pirates-esque color scheme is off-putting and makes me not want to read it for lengthly periods of time. The choice of topic matter is derivative and disorganized, and makes the mistake of using too many superlatives too early on. Not every beer can or should be a 5/5, not is every brewery amazing. Perhaps try several beers and visit several breweries first to calibrate your thoughts a bit better. The layout could use significant improvement, including but not limited to the formatting of objects on the page and the inconsistent photo sizes.

3/10, probably wouldn't bang again but could be convinced otherwise if I hear about some improvements.

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

I understand you went yellow because it's a beer color. The yellow you picked is like somebody pounded pilsner all day then ate a mustardy hot dog and threw it all up. Your words are little bits of undigested hot dog in a sea of pilsner and mustard barf.

 

[quirkzoo1]

I would message dontdrinkbeer for his sage advice on high quality beer blogging.

www.dontdrinkbeer.com

Hey guys, remember that time we kept linking dontdrinkbeer.com from a private convo and he was getting all that web traffic from it and he was super confused and @subpoenadeuces had no idea what was going on.

I am sorry, what were we talking about again?

 

[SeaWatchman]

So I checked out the blog this morning while taking a loud, nasty dump at work. The old school Pittsburgh Pirates-esque color scheme is off-putting and makes me not want to read it for lengthly periods of time. The choice of topic matter is derivative and disorganized, and makes the mistake of using too many superlatives too early on. Not every beer can or should be a 5/5, not is every brewery amazing. Perhaps try several beers and visit several breweries first to calibrate your thoughts a bit better. The layout could use significant improvement, including but not limited to the formatting of objects on the page and the inconsistent photo sizes.

3/10, probably wouldn't bang again but could be convinced otherwise if I hear about some improvements.

 

[Kasher]

Searched for something to signify how edgy some people were trying to be in this thread, found this instead.



BeerRookie Keep at it. It sucks being the newb at everything. Take your licks, learn more about beer (if you're generally interested in it) and you'll come to realize that at this moment, you really don't know much. The website design could use a bit more polish, but I've designed far worse websites for far more meaningless reasons. So I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

 

[JulianB1]

I object to this GIF.










I'm not bald and don't own a desktop computer.

 

[SirDickButts]

ahhh...the good ole talkbeer christening.

 

[mixed_master7]

wow, that escalated stupidly.

It's Juice, what do you expect?

 

[jivex5k1]

www.lambic.info averages approximately 7 views a day. Happy to share some insight.

Make that 8. It's now my default pooping site. You're welcome.

 

[Podunkparte]

****** spam blog about a topic you've studied for zero years...

Enjoy your career at Buzzfeed

 

[ScottJWing]

****** spam blog about a topic you've studied for zero years...

Enjoy your career at Buzzfeed

I look forward to taking the quiz: Which top 25 ranked Beer Advocatetm craft beer 'whale' are you?

1. Pick your favorite candy bar.
2. Which is your favorite vacation destination.
3. Which queue of human garbage looks most appealing to you?

A: You are Marshmallow Handjee!

 

[ChicagoGuy]

I like this thread. BeerRookie can definitely hang. I think there's hope for her yet, but there is much to learn. Normally I delete spam but we'll consider this an ongoing experiment: Can spam be un-spammed?

I disagree. What OP is doing doesn't look like "hanging" to me; it comes off as a special snowflake reacting negatively to the fact that this community didn't shower her blog with praise and fall over itself to help her with her project. I'm not even having a particularly grumpy day, but her every post rubbed me the wrong way.

First, she seemed completely indifferent about the fact that she just joined to use this site's membership for some page views, and taken aback that anyone would object to this. The closest she came to admitting her botched ruse was "I made a mistake, my bad for being human" and "Mistakes happen, people aren't perfect".

Second, I'm sorry, you don't come into an established community and start telling people how to act on your fifth post. Especially when you're some kid working on a homework assignment and a big chunk of said community's membership has kids who have been alive longer than you've been of drinking age. As soon as I saw "in the future when providing your opinion of what others should or should not do, steer clear of using vile language as it automatically discredits nearly every aspect of your statement", some vile language came to mind.

Finally, multiple people have told her that her blog makes their eyes bleed. LukeAleTime went above & beyond with a series of honest, thought-out, genuinely informative posts, and her response was "you are entitled to your opinion - which by the way, no one really cares about." That, to me, indicates a complete lack of interest in actually participating or learning anything - she's here to get her clicks, and it damn well better come with a side of validation.

In summary, Gene, it's a good thing you're running this joint and not me, because I would've deleted that **** with a quickness.

Also, welcome to TalkBeer, OP!

 

[jivex5k1]

I disagree. What OP is doing doesn't look like "hanging" to me; it comes off as a special snowflake reacting negatively to the fact that this community didn't shower her blog with praise and fall over itself to help her with her project. I'm not even having a particularly grumpy day, but her every post rubbed me the wrong way.

First, she seemed completely indifferent about the fact that she just joined to use this site's membership for some page views, and taken aback that anyone would object to this. The closest she came to admitting her botched ruse was "I made a mistake, my bad for being human" and "Mistakes happen, people aren't perfect".

Second, I'm sorry, you don't come into an established community and start telling people how to act on your fifth post. Especially when you're some kid working on a homework assignment and a big chunk of said community's membership has kids who have been alive longer than you've been of drinking age. As soon as I saw "in the future when providing your opinion of what others should or should not do, steer clear of using vile language as it automatically discredits nearly every aspect of your statement", some vile language came to mind.

Finally, multiple people have told her that her blog makes her eyes bleed. LukeAleTime went above & beyond with a series of honest, thought-out, genuinely informative posts, and her response was "you are entitled to your opinion - which by the way, no one really cares about." That, to me, indicates a complete lack of interest in actually participating or learning anything - she's here to get her clicks, and it damn well better come with a side of validation.

In summary, Gene, it's a good thing you're running this joint and not me, because I would've deleted that **** with a quickness.

Also, welcome to TalkBeer, OP!

Yeah the rebuttal to the feedback was the nail in the coffin IMO.

Also, what class requires 1000 views on some ******** blog as homework? Sounds like complete ******** to me.

 

[regularjohn]

BeerRookie
Female, 25, from California

plot twist

 

[user 306926]

Yeah the rebuttal to the feedback was the nail in the coffin IMO.

Also, what class requires 1000 views on some ******** blog as homework? Sounds like complete ******** to me.

******* millennials and all their soft as **** social media cheat coding.

Is no one in a shop class cheating death anymore?

 

[Macenson]

I just don't like calling people's language vile. Just because someone doesn't have the emotional maturity to realize that an entire internet community doesn't exist for their sole purpose doesn't mean that what is said is vile if it offends them. We may be ******** sometimes, but we're genuine ******** who can also be genuinely good.

I still think it's a social experiment though and we're all being watched and judged. (Adjusts tinfoil hat)

We have to make sure to balance all the positive and negative comments exactly to throw off the results.

 

[ChicagoGuy]

******* millennials and all their soft as **** social media cheat coding.

Is no one in a shop class cheating death anymore?

The problem is it sounds like this class is teaching Upworthy-style clickbait, page views-above-all-else ********. The course description probably read, "This Professor Was Asked To Teach A New Media Course...You Won't Believe What Happened Next!"

If these kids were at least learning about maximizing return visitor frequency, increasing meaningful engagement with target audiences, gaining trust from & impacting communities, etc., they could at least go out and get jobs at digital agencies or something (free beer, hot young employees, 3pm happy hours, easy-as-**** work...there are worse places to end up. I totally miss it).

 

[user 306926]

The problem is it sounds like this class is teaching Upworthy-style clickbait, page views-above-all-else ********. The course description probably read, "This Professor Was Asked To Teach A New Media Course...You Won't Believe What Happened Next!"

If these kids were at least learning about maximizing return visitor frequency, increasing meaningful engagement with target audiences, gaining trust from & impacting communities, etc., they could at least go out and get jobs at digital agencies or something (free beer, hot young employees, 3pm happy hours, easy-as-**** work...there are worse places to end up. I totally miss it).

I don't give a **** about any of this new fandangled line of study.
We are in for a world of hurt next few years unless we start getting more young people into the trades. Srs.
So much craft beer = massive shitting = plumbers needed

We up **** creek. Literally.

 

[ChicagoGuy]

I don't give a **** about any of this new fandangled line of study.
We are in for a world of hurt next few years unless we start getting more young people into the trades. Srs.
So much craft beer = massive shitting = plumbers needed

We up **** creek. Literally.

I completely agree with you, but this is a separate convo that would be better paired with drinks

 

[LukeAleTime]

We get way more than that.

And no, no blog ever. Evvvvvver.

In that case I'm gonna mine your site for easy content.

"You won't be believe these 8 cafe blenders who went out of business"

"Top 5 lambic myths, busted"

 

[ChicagoGuy]

"You won't believe what happened to these 8 cafe blenders"

FTFY

No one's gonna buy the cow when you're giving away the milk for free

 

[AynRandWasRight]

this thread makes me glad I read this website for a couple months before creating an account.. still got roasted

 

[user 306926]

this thread makes me glad I read this website for a couple months before creating an account.. still got roasted

and you still don't have an avatar....

 

[tennispl]

and you still don't have an avatar....

And Ayn Rand was wrong.


blue_bleeder

 

[AynRandWasRight]

and you still don't have an avatar....

as a guy who waited until 2 weeks before he had to leave the country to renew his passport, you're gonna have to bear with me for a lil on the avatar

 

[LukeAleTime]

FTFY

No one's gonna buy the cow when you're giving away the milk for free

I was never good at headlines. The one time I put some thought into one I was accused of writing clickbait... the story was an analysis of case studies about choice overload and how it may apply to tap lists. So you know, super clickbaity ****.

 

[user 306926]

as a guy who waited until 2 weeks before he had to leave the country to renew his passport, you're gonna have to bear with me for a lil on the avatar

 

[mixed_master7]

And Ayn Rand was wrong.


blue_bleeder

HA!

 

[quirkzoo1]

"You won't be believe these 8 cafe blenders who went out of business"

RIP in Peace - Franz Algoet-Meerts, Jules Wambacq, Henri J. Vander Borght