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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Beer Blogging across the borders

Being a Swedish beer writer and then starting this "beer blogger concept" in both Great Britain and here in USA has given me some insights about the beer scene in the various countries. First, I have realized that it's much more common in the US with female beer enthusiasts (bloggers/writers/tasters) than in Sweden and GB. Be it, that there probably are a few hundred more beer bloggers in the US, but statistically it's more common anyway. What's the reason for that? Secondly, in GB and Sweden it seems like it's very important to show the rest of the world how many readers you have on your blog, represented with various counters. It also seems like it's very important to show that you're number "this and that" on different blog-lists.
One thing that US and GB beer blogs have in common are adverts about beer related books, espacially in GB it seems to be very important to show that you have books published about beer. They also have a lot more commercials than Swedish beer blogs, probably because adverts with alcohol is much more restricted by Swedish alcohol laws.
Looking at the content and styles of beer blogs, I must say that there are many similarities. No matter what nationality your blog have you can always find reviews, interviews, brewery and pub visits, beer festivals and tasting events.
I think we can all learn something by reading about beer culture from different countries and there I have an advantage….because I understand English and you can't read Swedish ;-)
But I'm very interested  in collaborating across the borders and hopefully you are as well. So, any ideas on how we can do that? Beer swapping? Guest blogging? Me writing here about Swedish beers and breweries?
Cheers, for now!

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