The podcast dilemma
Friday 29 February 2008
I need some help here.
I’ve wanted to do a beer-related podcast since I started the blog. Now that I have my shiny new MacBook Pro, all the tools to do a good one are in place. So what the hell should the theme and style be? None of the beer podcasts I’ve found really do it for me. They either drone on for too long, take too elitist a tone, or remain so location-specific that I can’t relate to the beers and bars they talk about.
I want to ask my loyal readers, as well as the traitorous ones. What sort of beer stuff would you guys actually enjoy listening to? What type of content would actually motivate you to open iTunes and download a beer podcast? I guess this is market research.
-Mark
Not sure if you’d be able to do this…but i think it might be something a little different…something that would take people thru different styles of beer making and that would show the resultant effect on the taste, look, color, etc of the beer. Maybe something that was biweekly or monthly (or whenever you could swing it) that would highlight different styles of brewing…could be the different style of brewing one type of beer based on geographic location, time period, etc. or multiple types of beer at one location, in one era, etc. …not sure if it could be on location at a brewery but im sure you could pull some strings and make it work…it would be pretty interesting to actually see the different brewing styles that yield different flavors…and it might be a good enough excuse to travel…:)
A) the drunk chic we saw at Tap ‘N Mallet
B) There’s a reason most beer videos drone on and sound elitist
C) Nothing could make me want to open anyting with “i” in front of it. Not even a frosty cold one.
D) you could do one on how to taste beer. Not many people know what to look for in certain types of beer and so when they taste 3-day-old sausage, its a shocker!
Good luck. Like your new iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiibook
I think it would be cool if you took a style of beer from different regions and compared and contrasted them. For example take a normal IPA from a Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and Northwest and compare there color, taste, smell, etc.
Just my thoughts I am looking forward to the podcast.