Seamus Campbell, my co-author, on what it’s like to be a beer critic

Here’s the first of Seamus’ weeklong series of blog articles about The Beer Trials for the Powell’s website. In the article, he discusses a phenomenon that’s familiar to my experience as well: “conversations about how I could possibly have given famous and best-selling products poor ratings.” It is a basic human instinct, and (for those of Full Article…

The Beer Trials: a sneak preview

Here’s a sneak preview of The Beer Trials, which I co-authored with Seamus Campbell. The preview (in PDF format) includes a press release, the preface, our list of beer ratings, and a few reviews from the book. The book, due out on April 15 from Fearless Critic Media (distributed by Workman Publishing), rates and reviews 250 Full Article…