Beer Thoughts #15 (Replies)

This week Boak and Bailey have been posting briefer, daily posts, like how most of Beer Blogging (including their site!) mainly functioned a decade ago. It is has been a lot of fun to have something to read every day, for there to be different kinds of things looked at from different angles, and to see something more provisional – to be reminded that blogging works really well as a means of thinking aloud rather than coming to conclusions. The latter point is why blogging in the past was so conversational and alive at times – if thoughts weren’t finished they encouraged comments, blog posts as replies, follow-up posts. There is something kind of special around seeing ideas form in real-time, of seeing orthodoxies challenged, new theories emerge. As much as I enjoy a good bit of social media, I do think it’s growth killed off a lot of this kind of thing in the blogging world. Why throw up a quick post when you can just immediately fire off a sentence or two and get a much bigger…