All the hard-driven miles by testing engineers or computerized rigs can’t compare with the millions of miles driven by the first year or two of owners. 

It is flaming jelly garbage.

As an owner of a 2012 Ford Focus I say yes, avoid that first year at all costs. Also as the owner of a 2012 Ford Focus I say dont buy a car new...or a Focus.

Nothing to do with the breweries and everything to do with the actual publications.

Can confirm. A friend’s husband is a partner in the most successful local brewery in my area that now has three restaurants attached to it. It’s like the 6 bros specifically opened this joint with the express purpose of creating a grown-up frat house experience. But they donated a couple of growlers and a dinner gift…

This sad little man is sorry you are offended by the fact that he’s mad he can’t get away with harassing women anymore.

Maybe if you are a beer writer steer clear of making offensive jokes that aren’t about beer. I haven’t read the article but if it was intended as parody/satire it sure seems like it wasn’t funny at all, which is a really important component of that sort of thing.

“We reached out to the editor, and have learned that his little brother totally h4cked his account,”

Every single shit-ignorant asshat caught out on their BS who pleas “satire” while citing Voltaire ought to be subject to an oral exam on both the genre and Voltaire’s approach on the spot.

You’re going to tell me that a packed house on a Valentine’s that falls Sun-Thurs isn’t preferable to whatever business they would normally do those days? I might (might) accept that it’s a slight downside on a Friday or Saturday...but I refuse to believe that 5/7 years it’s not a big $$$ day replacing a $ day.

I hate going to restaurants on Valentine’s Day, so right back at them. The service is rushed and poor, the food is subpar and in order to compensate for the two at a table issue I’ve seen places that jam in as many two tops as physically possible. Last year I grilled steaks outside in the snow in order to avoid going…

If it really was some kind of attempt at parody, the writer failed to heed Harry Shearer’s very wise advice: Comedy should be left to the professionals.

If it works for you, that’s great. I made a couple of attempts, landed one story that I’m still very proud of, and ultimately decided I didn’t want to deal with navigating two hostile industries at the same time and just stuck with the one I know.

“My instincts to bed every woman I see are reducing from a king-sized mattress to a cot, the size of which I only remember from a tour in Iraq.”

“In the age of #metoo, the pendulum has swung too far. One aggressive move and a man’s career can derail”

I don’t understand that indomitable core of selfish pride that prevents people, even in the most desperate of circumstances, from giving a properly worded apology (even if it’s insincere). They are obviously trying to do damage control but they always screw it up because they insist on mentioning that “you” got…

as if you didn’t need another reason to hate craft beer culture.

too many shitty IPAs,  and now gas lighting trolls in shitty industry newsletters.  

There are two ways to do what Metzger attempted without completely fucking it up:

Alan McCleod pointed out that this guy has written stuff like this in the past:

That article was infuriating. And, as you said, it has absolutely nothing to do with the supposed topic of the article. It does not read as parody, and it’s a bullshit excuse to try to say so after the fact. In any case, this is a failure in writing, a failure in editing, and I hope this person never gets to voice an…