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Tom Dunne put out a request for comments on the unbalanced article in Guardian during the week and I got picked to say a few words. It'll likely be on a podcast of some sort in the future, I imagine, for those interested. I of course got an ICB plug in. I saw it as my duty.

Here's the link to the dodgy article

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(sorry I still haven't figured out how to do fancy links....)

Wow. I've read articles where people are being provocative just, well, to be provocative, but this takes the biscuit.

[quote:2mkl2t2j]When was the last time you heard a beer drinker pass a witty remark? Beer drinkers are also terrible lovers, awful husbands, and untidy flatmates.[/quote:2mkl2t2j]

I mean, really...

He doesn't even come across favourable to wines, just new world wines. Before that he reckons all wine was dry-as-dust, unpronounceable gunge.


[quote:2mkl2t2j]Wine in New Labour Land is vivacious, fruity, inexpensive, and it's fun.[/quote:2mkl2t2j]

[quote:2mkl2t2j]Back in those days, the days of awful Tory governments,[/quote:2mkl2t2j]

Aah, good old Labour, sorting out the wine industry.


HC, I look forward to hearing your response.

It was hard to do a good job in the minute or two I had. I decided to go easy on the macro brewers because I didn't want to come across as rapid as the guy who wrote the article. Still, you can judge for yourself, if it turns up on the web.

Fair play, Thom. Looking forward to hearing the article. Gluck's been getting a drubbing on the beer blogosphere, trollish twat that he is.

Is this a modern Beer Street and Gin Lane?

Wine drinkers are paragons of modern sophistication and beer drinkers are backward intoxicated oafs.

Hope to hear you on the podcast Thom.

I heard it.Didnt hear the name at first but once you started talking thought i knew who it was and then came the big plug for ICB and well even a beer drinking loser and sadsack like me was able to work out who it was.

Anyway it was good, thought Thom sounded like one of those experts they phone up for opinions( but in a a good way!). I did like the slight 2 second pause between the question and answer re. the macros!well judged answer i thought.

Might an ICB agent be required with all this meeja heading this way!