{"id":16636,"date":"2015-04-11T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=16636"},"modified":"2015-04-11T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T23:00:44","slug":"little-billboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/04\/11\/little-billboards\/","title":{"rendered":"Little billboards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My freshly-arrived Craft Queer t-shirt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As is probably also true of many or indeed most other long-standing \/ high-level1<\/sup><\/a><\/a> beer enthusiasts, I have unfeasibly-many branded t-shirts. But there always seems to be room for one more, and I’d been meaning for ages to get one from the Craft Queer Project<\/a>. Born from a particularly-rad present my comrade2<\/sup><\/a><\/a> Dylan made for a fellow bartender, it evolved into a generally-purchasable thing<\/a> and a worthy little fundraiser to boot. I’ve also seen way too much of the homophobic nonsense that he mentions in his post; from trolls fouling up\u00a0the online beer community to boorish lunkheads in bars acting like they’d tumbled in from a prior decade \u2014 and see Melissa Cole’s latest piece<\/a> if you need and\/or can stomach examples from the Antipodes. But still, I share his optimism that things are\u00a0(as they say)\u00a0getting better<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was really heartening, two weekends ago, to spy a few of these t-shirts in the crowd at the Great Kiwi Beer Festival, worn on the persons of total strangers. That was enough to at last jolt me into ordering mine. But as a\u00a0habitual Overthinker, who coincidentally exists very much\u00a0to the left of the Kinsey Scale<\/a>, I vacillated for a while between getting the original \u2018QuB<\/del>\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0version<\/a> and the slightly-bowdlerised, ahem<\/em>, straight-Beer<\/strong> one<\/a>. But an analogy to all that brewery merch\u00a0in my drawers eventually occurred to me: I’ll happily wear, for instance, a ParrotDog t-shirt, a Stone & Wood hoodie, and a Dogfish Head hat \u2014 perhaps even\u00a0all at once<\/em> \u2014 despite working at precisely none of those companies.3<\/sup><\/a><\/a> I may not be\u00a0of<\/em> them, but I\u00a0like<\/em> them, and I wish them well in their many endeavours, supporting their good works and deeds where I can. Likewise this, really.4<\/sup><\/a><\/a> Simple.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>1:<\/strong> I mean this in the\u00a0Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> sense \u2014\u00a0lots of experience and a few perks.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>2:<\/strong> Disclaimers ahoy: then, in his day job, he was a customer of my day job (which, in turn, made the beer the artwork references<\/a>); now, he’s officially my boss, since I’ve reshuffled my working life rather dramatically.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>3:<\/strong> So far, at least. I’d let you know<\/a>.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>4:<\/strong> If I seem to be harping on these down-with-grossness<\/a> and show-of-solidarity<\/a> angles, I make no apology. I’ve seen two of my other beloved Domains Of Nerdness \u2014 namely videogames and speculative fiction \u2014 develop disgusting little cancers of reactionary bullshit and I’ll kick against that where I can. \u00a0Calling out whatever\u00a0nonsense comes within reach is the least any of us can do, and now we can do it while wearing a snazzy t-shirt. Win-win!\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As is probably also true of many or indeed most other long-standing \/ high-level1 beer enthusiasts, I have unfeasibly-many branded t-shirts. But there always seems to be room for one more, and I’d been meaning for ages to get one from the Craft Queer Project. Born from a particularly-rad present my comrade2 Dylan made for … Continue reading Little billboards<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19561,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2017\/12\/05\/post-hoc\/","url_meta":{"origin":16636,"position":0},"title":"A bad story hides a good point","author":"Phil","date":"December 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes, being\u00a0nearly right is actually worse than being completely wrong.\u00a0A story headlined Higher Alcohol Levels In Craft Beer Catching Drivers Out was published yesterday, and proved to be an instructively terrible example of this. 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