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A Good Beer Blog is the playground of Alan McLeod, clearly Canada's favorite and surely unparalleled beer culture critic. Author of five books on beer including 2025’s Empire Beer, a history of brewing in the great state of New York published by SUNY Press. Not a consultant on the side. Shuns junkets. Beer community denier. Spits. Wants a Double Double. Unpopular globally.

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"...an Ontario lawyer who reviews beers on his blog, which he calls A Good Beer Blog" - New York Times, 13 June 2005.

"What people needed was a good beer blog, which is exactly what they got. Alan McLeod founded A Good Beer Blog in October 2004. While it wasn't the first of its kind, the site has lasted the longest thanks to McLeod's consistent - and consistently enlightening - updates..." Otis Hart, AP wire story, 2006.

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"How they must wish they had been around in the 1930s when book-burning was in vogue. (Martyn) Cornell expresses his thanks to a Canadian blogger, Alan McLeod, who has “started a repository for errors” in the Oxford Companion. What sad people..." Roger Protz, Morning Advertiser, 20 November 2011. Removed 23 November 2011.

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