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As part of some pretty ambitious plans for this blog I’m hoping to start a series of Virtual Beer Tastings in which I taste and talk about some of the most interesting beers available in Sweden right now.
I love the idea of virtual tastings as being able to actually see the beer being poured into a glass has some obvious advantages over the written word. On top of that I’m planning to invite brewers, importers and brand ambassadors as well as other beery friends from the drinks industry to join me in many of these virtual tastings. That way you’ll get first-hand information from the people closest to the beer.
A couple of days ago I persuaded a couple of beer fanatic friends to film me talking about Pilsner Urquell. The results were far from perfect, but I’m posting a heavily cut version of them anyway to give you an idea of where I’m trying to go with this.
So what do you think? Good idea, waste of time, self-publicising nonsense or a useful way to get a more in-depth understanding of beer?
As you can imagine there’s quite a lot of work behind putting these films together so I’m proposing cutting you a deal. If I reach 500 fans on BeerSweden.se’s Facebook fan page I’ll start posting virtual tastings. The simple truth is that the more people that visit this site the more time I can devote to it. So please, get out there and bang the drum for BeerSweden by telling all your beery friends to sign up to my Facebook page.
And please give me your feedback on the idea of virtual tastings. What sort of beers would you like reviewed, which breweries would you like to take a behind-the-scenes look at, what beer styles do you want to learn more about? Remember it’s your comments that shape the content on this site!
Have a great weekend everyone.
BeerSweden Darren
Awesome video and it’s cool to see you as well
I like what I see and I like it a lot! Sure, it feels a bit ambigous but I see no problem with that since it’s so overall well-performed. My own video-blog-days are over until I find some decent camera equipment.
Ambitous I mean. Excuse my poor English. Haha.
This looks very professional! Looking forward to more and longer videos.
Getting loads of emails and comments about this idea, which is great! Lots of people have said I look a bit too serious and I totally agree. Remember it’s only a first attempt and it does all look a little stiff. Next time I’ll loosen up a bit more. Perhaps I’ll have a couple of beers before the camera starts rolling…..
You sound like a total twat!
Jokes aside.. Looks good but a bit stiff. Invite some brewers or friends (or both) over and drink lots of beer before or during or whatever. These things are great but they do need lots of laughter and sillyness to really work in the long run. Very serious reveiws tend to get somewhat tedious (actually more in video format than in text in my opinion) and you generally need high speed communication between at least two people to make it really fun to watch (one person can pull it off but it requires lots of charm, humor and a really high tempo.)
Looked really nice! Looking forward to the next one.