sexism in beer
from my beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast with stephen quinn yesterday: It is getting harder and harder to find unique beer names. As more breweries and beers enter the market, more names are trademarked and no longer available for use. Amidst all the ‘cease and desist’ letters flying around, there may be another controversy brewing. Is beer becoming a soap opera? And so are the suds of our lives... It does seem like it sometimes! While any service industry would make for a good soap opera setting, I think what’s happening in the beer industry is just good old fashioned growing pains, though. Brewers and beer marketers love a good beer pun. But with so many beers needing names, there is a shortage of not-yet-trademarked puns left out there. If you can’t be punny, then how about edgy? Sometimes breweries are going past edgy though, and into the land of offensive names. I would give some examples, ...