Wait, Where Was I? Oh Yeah, Being a Jerk

I just had an unplanned two-week hiatus from posting here. Even though people say there is no such thing as writer’s block, it’s the best way I can explain why I haven’t posted. Just freaking froze up.

Don’t worry, I have been drinking still. I even got my hands on a Pliny For President yesterday. Clearly, the only good choice to lead us into the next four years of West Coast IPAs:

In my absence, I missed how Good Beer Hunting has gone on a hiatus of his own (read about it over at

Boak & Bailey

if you haven’t yet).

I have always respected Good Beer Hunting for its reputation of paying freelance writers properly, and for being…ambitious in its story ideas and podcasts.

Buuuuuut, it was some real self-indulgent stuff that was mostly a slog to get through. There should be very little slogging with beer content. So… 🤷🏻‍♂️

But here I am missing two weeks and criticizing someone so what the hell do I know?!

AI is a D- Student at best

I love this so much from Pints & Panels, illustrating how off AI-generated information can be:

I googled “ale vs lager” to get some information and the AI response is, well…a big problematic. So I did some corrections. - EM from Pints & Panels

It feels like we are doomed to distrust online info once AI has completely buggered it up. We’ll have to go back to physical books for accuracy.

Thank you for the read and for sticking around through the rough patches. Have fun with your beers this week and I will HOPEFULLY talk to you next week.

-Mikey

Peace.
Beer.
Metal.