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The Pacific Beer Expo responds to Karl du Fresne
October 22, 2014. For immediate release.
The Pacific Beer Expo responds to Karl du Fresne
In a blog post today on the Manawatu Standard’s website, former wine writer Karl du Fresne writes “the earnest, bearded cultists who gather at craft beer festivals strike me as only slightly less tragic than men who spend their weekends playing with model planes."
Pacific Beer Expo organiser Dominic Kelly responds: “with the Pacific Beer Expo three days away, this sounds like an attempt to goad us into giving him a complimentary ticket, if only to enlighten him about the gender mix at a beer festival. Which we aren’t going to do."
“In all seriousness however, it is tragic that he can say, without irony, that he rejoices in the range of beer available today, while mocking the people whose support of new breweries makes that range possible."
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