Michael Kiser of Good Beer Hunting

[dontdrinkbeer]

Probably saw you reply to dontdrinkbeer or some other beer geek-centric account and preemptively banned you.

dude's trigger is more sensitive than old man Witherbee's tripwire shotgun.

I "interacted" with him maybe three times, largely just expressing sheer amazement that a large platform content provider would pay someone $0.18 a word when they seem to know **** all about craft beer beyond the myopic generalizations you would expect from a homebrewing stepdad drinking ranger at the end of a bar chipring Untappd reviews into his nextel phone.

I was mostly being congratulatory.

 

[Tooch4321]

bonus points for the natalie photoshopper if we can get a robert parker in a suicidal tendencies flippy hat.

 

[goodbeerhunting]

chipring Untappd reviews into his nextel phone.

This made me physically uncomfortable to imagine.

 

[SheerHeartAttack]

Pardon me while I jack this thread:

dontdrinkbeer, can we get a couple-hundred word review of goodbeerhunting? Maybe a rating out of 10 while we're at it?

 

[benbikes4beer]

Pardon me while I jack this thread:

dontdrinkbeer, can we get a couple-hundred word review of goodbeerhunting? Maybe a rating out of 10 while we're at it?

Or a vedeo revue of Kiser while Kiser is interviewing him on the GBH Podcast.

Can it plz plz plz be at Binny's on a Black Friday release? brb setting up a kickfundmestarter for Alex's airfare.

 

[MarcatGSB1]

Can't believe I just spent a good 25 minutes reading thru this entire thread.

The whole thing seems pretty Fox-newsish to me. But I know that, and I take it with a grain of salt.
Are most of the stories goodbeerhunting puts out entertaining? Sure, I suppose. Do I allow them to shape my world? No, not really. It's just entertainment...which is what beer is for me, personally. Sure I make part of my living off beer, but if I took it too seriously then in the long run I believe I would make much less as a whole.

By the way, the GBH deer pencil drawing that Dan did is bad ass. I have it framed, hanging it my house, zero fuxx.

edit- because I can

 

[Previously]

Can it plz plz plz be at Binny's on a Black Friday release? brb setting up a kickfundmestarter for Alex's airfare.

Whoa there with the name drop bro.

 

[nebuck]

I'm way late to this thread, but I just wanted to say that I only recently started following GBH, and I've become a big fan. I now follow two beer blogs/sites regularly: goodbeerhunting and dontdrinkbeer . I know the comment above was intended ironically, but I really would love to see a GBH interview of DDB. Or vice versa. Unlikely to the point of being funny, I know, but it would be really cool.

Also, I really enjoyed your write-up from last summer (I think?) on Tired Hands. Any plans to do a podcast interview with Jean?

 

[RedCoffee]

Sooo ahhh... what's all this then?

http://wearebrewstuds.com/stories/news/craft-beer-blog-editor-does-deal-with-devil/

 

[cneville1]

Sooo ahhh... what's all this then?

http://wearebrewstuds.com/stories/news/craft-beer-blog-editor-does-deal-with-devil/

i believe we call that "par for the course"

also, this comment by goodbeerhunting, hoooooly ****

"Dude your jealousy will consume you. I know you are hoping I’ll hire you one day and when I need somebody to rest my balls on their chin I will. Get off my nuts until then. Aim true and pour liberally bitch!"

 

[Kasher]

And this on:

"Dude you sound like a bitter 13 year old who will never listen to the music they play on the radio because you are to pure. Get over yourself"

Dude doesn't even know the difference between to and too. More like spell true and study grammar liberally, bitch.

 

[vav1]

You guys do realize anyone can comment anonymously under any name they'd like yeah?

 

[Tooch4321]

You guys do realize anyone can comment anonymously under any name they'd like yeah?

Details, details, it's more fun believing it was real. We do now live in a world where "alternative facts" so how exist after all...

 

[cneville1]

You guys do realize anyone can comment anonymously under any name they'd like yeah?

sure but given goodbeerhunting's social media history, why give him the benefit of the doubt!

 

[RedCoffee]

You guys do realize anyone can comment anonymously under any name they'd like yeah?

I just want another set of paragraphs detailing how we don't understand. Is that too much to ask?

 

[Tooch4321]

I just want another set of paragraphs detailing how we don't understand. Is that too much to ask?

This is ******* hilarious...

 

[lb304854]

Why are Uppers & Downers tickets $60, or the same price as Great Taste, for a three hour session? I get that it's a cool venue but that pricing sucks hard.

 

[Tooch4321]

Why are Uppers & Downers tickets $60, or the same price as Great Taste, for a three hour session? I get that it's a cool venue but that pricing sucks hard.

How else does one pay for beard oil and heritage baseball caps that almost fit ones head...

 

[Ferowcious]

Man I enjoy this thread

 

[Mugatu]

Ugh I hate this Donald trump era

 

[goodbeerhunting]

Lazarus thread! Sweet. Just what we all wanted.

The comments on the Brewstuds article were fake. Eventually he realized and deleted them. Here's a screenshot of the one comment I made that he refused to post even as he was publishing the fake ones and arguing with the troll.



He also changed the headline because GBH was not acquired.

October is a project for our studio team myself, our art director, and our experience director). Our editorial team is not involved (except for freelancers who are able to do whatever they want). Austin Ray, our editorial director, remains GBH-only.

October is one of many projects, and we were hired by Condé Nast/Pitchfork to develop the editorial for the purpose of recruiting good beer writers and keeping a team running beyond the influence of ZX Ventures financial involvement.

All the operations, as sales, etc. will be run internally by Condé Nast/Pitchfrok reporting to ZX. Me and Eno work on editorial and don't review the work with anyone.

Possible all that changes at some point, who knows. But for now it's contractually obligated to stay separate and that's one of the reasons why we signed on.

Happy to answer any other questions on that.

 

[goodbeerhunting]

Why are Uppers & Downers tickets $60, or the same price as Great Taste, for a three hour session? I get that it's a cool venue but that pricing sucks hard.

They were $55 last year and we sold out two sessions, so this seems like a late criticism. But to get specific, we offer nearly 30 one-off experimental beers that we pay for (some are quite expensive). We also offer a multi-roaster espresso bar, food specially prepared within the theme, and cocktails. And even at that price point, if we didn't have sponsors like Teeling Whiskey partnering with us, it'd barely break even. The costs of running events like this with limited capacity (a fraction of the tickets that Great taste can sell) is rather challenging on the financial side. Comparing apples to oranges - two very different experiences being offered.

 

[goodbeerhunting]

I'm way late to this thread, but I just wanted to say that I only recently started following GBH, and I've become a big fan. I now follow two beer blogs/sites regularly: goodbeerhunting and dontdrinkbeer . I know the comment above was intended ironically, but I really would love to see a GBH interview of DDB. Or vice versa. Unlikely to the point of being funny, I know, but it would be really cool.

Also, I really enjoyed your write-up from last summer (I think?) on Tired Hands. Any plans to do a podcast interview with Jean?

Thanks! Getting Jean on the podcast is a priority for sure. Interesting guy.

And the DDB thing could happen. I'm a fan, but I also don't like to meet my heroes, so there's that.

 

[RedCoffee]

I just want another set of paragraphs detailing how we don't understand. Is that too much to ask?

 

[goodbeerhunting]

Sorry for partying.

 

[Lansman]

Sorry for partying.

Please don't use that phrase ever again.

powz87

 

[Tooch4321]

 

[Beer4B]

Lazarus thread! Sweet. Just what we all wanted.

The comments on the Brewstuds article were fake. Eventually he realized and deleted them. Here's a screenshot of the one comment I made that he refused to post even as he was publishing the fake ones and arguing with the troll.



He also changed the headline because GBH was not acquired.

October is a project for our studio team myself, our art director, and our experience director). Our editorial team is not involved (except for freelancers who are able to do whatever they want). Austin Ray, our editorial director, remains GBH-only.

October is one of many projects, and we were hired by Condé Nast/Pitchfork to develop the editorial for the purpose of recruiting good beer writers and keeping a team running beyond the influence of ZX Ventures financial involvement.

All the operations, as sales, etc. will be run internally by Condé Nast/Pitchfrok reporting to ZX. Me and Eno work on editorial and don't review the work with anyone.

Possible all that changes at some point, who knows. But for now it's contractually obligated to stay separate and that's one of the reasons why we signed on.

Happy to answer any other questions on that.

Just out of curiosity as I'm in the same professions (but thankfully not beer), so GBH is your editorial company and your agency is another entity. Your agency was hired to produce/curate editorial for their magazine?

Meaning, they like what you've built at GBH and want to do that for their magazine? Or that they want your current team?

I must be confused as it would be weird that they would hire you for editorial but also contractually exclude GBH in the deal.

Sounds like a basic custom publishing job which isn't odd or necessarily damning of your GBH editorial.

 

[disapowzment]

Sorry for partying.

Thats you partying? When I picture partying, I'm 16 beers deep crowd surfing at a lynyrd skynyrd concert. Just then mila kunis jumps on stage rips her shirt off during the freebird guitar solo while I shotgun a bud light with dontdrinkbeer.

 

[Fingolfin]

Thats you partying? When I picture partying, I'm 16 beers deep crowd surfing at a lynyrd skynyrd concert. Just then mila kunis jumps on stage rips her shirt off during the freebird guitar solo while I shotgun a bud light with dontdrinkbeer.

FTowne