ORIGINAL GRAVITY: In-depth craft + draft beer reviews by yours truly

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Hey all. Those who either follow me on Facebook or on this forum (you dirty stalkers know who you are, don't kid yourselves) know via my posts that I have recently become a freelance blogger for a local newspaper. I don't get paid but I do get an audience, which is the most important thing to me; I wrote these reviews anyway (very frequently, I may add, to which those who follow me on FB, such as Koger/unknown and Schmidt/yoda, will attest) so doing them in an official context is probably a better way to go with them anyway, especially since I've been given that very opportunity.

You can now follow my beer blog "Original Gravity" at this link:
http://sunbeer.wordpress.com/ or http://www.lowellsun.com/beer (if you want to give the newspaper some hits)

I review fairly frequently and a lot of people here, especially beer nerds, should be at least mildly intrigued and/or informed by this blog. Thanks for checking it out and PROSIT!

 

[Addo_Of_Nex]

Looks awesome, though perhaps you could either begin or append each post with a few notes of technical information with the name/brewery, ABV, style, etc. I suppose this might be superfluous because you generally cover that in the reviews themselves.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Will do. Good advice. Typically I just lead off with "Brewery Name + Beer Name (and style if not in proper title of beer already) and eventually introduce the ABV in the review somewhere.

 

[unknown]

I love the blog title haha.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Haha, I knew you would. It's definitely a beer-nerd thing and I'm expecting not many non-nerds to get it but I felt it fit how I write and it's just niche-y enough for me.

 

[Zephyrus]

Make a FB page.

 

[divine_torture]

I definitely thought the name was clever. You're not going to review just artsy fag beer, are you?

EDIT: Review Snake Dog IPA and spread the word about how terrible it is, please. PLEASE.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Haha Snake Dog IPA is pretty awful. In fact, it doesn't really taste like an IPA at all from what I recall. I did have a good Flying Dog beer the other day, though (Raging Bitch, their Belgian IPA).

Jeremy: it's coming. I'm working all day but working on the logo and stuff later.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

I don't care for Flying Dog brews all that much. I tried the 11th Hour IPA by Crow Peak Brewery out of Spearfish, SD and it was good. Nice and bitter, the way I like an IPA to be.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Can I make a sister blog titled "High Gravity" where I only review high gravity malt liquors and other 40s?

 

[divine_torture]

Haha Snake Dog IPA is pretty awful. In fact, it doesn't really taste like an IPA at all from what I recall. I did have a good Flying Dog beer the other day, though (Raging Bitch, their Belgian IPA).

Flying Dog is usually a quality brand, but Snake Dog IPA tastes like liquid weed mixed with dog piss or something. Ugh.

Can I make a sister blog titled "High Gravity" where I only review high gravity malt liquors and other 40s?

That already exists, bruh. But, all I drink is Malt Liquor so I'd still be a fan. I just finished a King Cobra and now drinking a Mickey's grenade, actually.
http://www.40ozmaltliquor.com/

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Believe me, I know of this site. Have you ever seen Bruz40's videos on youtube?

Can't believe his videos are down. He was the best beer reviewer on youtube.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Looks awesome, though perhaps you could either begin or append each post with a few notes of technical information with the name/brewery, ABV, style, etc. I suppose this might be superfluous because you generally cover that in the reviews themselves.

That's not superfluous, there are plenty of people (myself included) who want quick basic facts on a product before reading a detailed review of it. Including that in a concise table or whatever will likely result in more people willing to read the reviews.

 

[divine_torture]

Believe me, I know of this site. Have you ever seen Bruz40's videos on youtube?

Can't believe his videos are down. He was the best beer reviewer on youtube.

I never saw them, but man I would like to see them. Why are they down?

And if you ever decide to start reviewing malt liquor, please let me know. I would be happy to either contribute or just promote the fuck out of that.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Grant, definitely a good call. I will change it for sure.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Just updated and changed a lot of the appearance of the blog. Took into account some of the initial criticism and put up a new post. Thanks for checking it. There's also a Facebook page now at www.facebook.com/originalgravitybr

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I like your logo artwork

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Thanks Grant I like that the top of the G sorta looks like a tap ready to pour a beer, haha. I was immediately struck by the image and decided to keep it.

 

[divine_torture]

I like the OG thing going on. you plan on reviewing pretty frequently?

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Yep, probably at least twice or three times weekly. And thanks dude