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I'm aware of the restriction on advertising on beer/hard alcohol site and emailed the site owner (after checking to see that the restriction still existed). But I am totally confused by this restriction, which seems to permit advertsing on wine sites, but prohibits it on beer sites.
Alcohol in most parts of the world is legal, and the art of brewing is as varied as that of winemaking, so that at times it's hard to make a distinction (for example are ciders and perries brews or wines).
For a guidebook type site this could get really hard. Wine-tasting would be acceptable, beer or spirit tasting would not.
whoever heard of a beer tasting festivel?
There are plenty of these! Especially where real ale is involved.
And virtually every UK city/town has a beer festival afaik.
whoever heard of a beer tasting festivel?
Don't get me started :)
I have both heard of and attended beer tasting festivals on several occasions and I will again whenever I get the chance. As Olwen says, the art of brewing is every bit as complex as that of winemaking. Most people tend to associate beer with the insipid urine coloured lagers that the lager louts use as a vehicle to get legless. Beer and REAL ale is different.
(Q) For example what's the difference between *** and p*ss.
(A) *** is colder :)
This ban by Google is probably because of the drinking and social difference between Google's USA and the rest of us. Worldwide is wine not a bigger alcohol problem than beer? I am talking about the cheap, fortified stuff coveted by winos everywhere, not your Beaujolais and Riojas.
Olwen is right and I too have a wine feature that boasts heavily targeted ads.
Ale is as different to lager as alcho-pops is to fine wines and Google wants nothing to do the the darker side of it.
I dare say a quality scotch whiskey site would get approved, then I'd be interested in writing an article on the prohibition as a test case!
Dont know about that - some of the real ales aint half strong. Had a cherry ale last time I went and I did not feel so good.
But I am slightly surprised that Adsense cant go on a Beer site. However I think it is the US view point - their are some wine sites in the US where you have to say you are over 18 (or 21) to enter. Bit weird.
-George
Liquor laws in the U.S. are weird and trace back to Prohibition in the 1930s. Hey, maybe even farther back than that -- this is still a Puritan country at heart, you know.
Thus, Google is just trying to stay out of trouble with the law. Can't blame them for that.
That doesn't sound like you've actually been there...
Nobody goes to the Oktoberfest for "beer tasting". They go there for getting drunk. Do you enjoy sitting in a tent with 3000 drunkards? I don't, which is why I didn't attend for several years, even though it's held in walking distance from my place.
Do you enjoy sitting in a tent with 3000 drunkards?
That would be me and my 2999 friends >;->
Whoever heard of a beer tasting festival?
I'm going to one in Cambridge this weekend, actually.
Liquor laws in the U.S. are weird and trace back to Prohibition in the 1930s. Hey, maybe even farther back than that -- this is still a Puritan country at heart, you know.
I was in the USA once on business and I attended a football (OK MLS soccer for the Yanks ;o) match at the Foxboro stadium. I was about 50 years of age at the time and I was refused a drink because I had no ID. I like to think that I am quite young for my age but not THAT young. The US drinking laws are the strangest I have ever enountered. But then there are no alcoholics in the States are there? ;)
every where you go on a Sunday morning there is vomit in doorways, from wine?
Wine is the chosen tipple of many Jakeys and Neds (as they are known in my area). As I said earlier I am not talking about table wine but the fortified stuff that is sickly sweet, attractive to kids and provides a quicker path to oblivion than beer.
I don't think Google makes any classification about the types of wine that they allow. One of the popular brands commonly misused in the UK is actually made by an order of Benedictine monks. How strange is that - monks making booze that can and does turn some young teenagers into drunken, raving lunatics? Incidentally this is responsible for a high volume of the vomit too. I suppose its not the monks' fault that their product is largely consumed by jakeys and neds but they could place Adsense on their site if they wanted to.
Contrast that with the CAMRA people (Google it) who are probably amongst the most responsible of drinkers but who would not, I assume, be entitled to carry Adsense ads on their website.
EVO
Cords
Leather/Suede Waistcoat
Brogue shoes
Vast tangled beard
Pipe
Leather tankard.
Tweed jacket with leather elbow patches.
And if Google is listening, large disposable income, net savvy and will happily buy from overseas.
That doesn't sound like you've actually been there...
I was in the USA once on business and I attended a football (OK MLS soccer for the Yanks ;o) match at the Foxboro stadium. I was about 50 years of age at the time and I was refused a drink because I had no ID. I like to think that I am quite young for my age but not THAT young. The US drinking laws are the strangest I have ever enountered. But then there are no alcoholics in the States are there?
United States is about two and a half times the size of Western Europe.
Where I live in the US we used to happily buy alcohol when we were 16 with no problem and tobacco when we where about 14. If the police caught you drinking underage they would make you dump it out. The laws are just a general guideline, usually the local authorities call the shots. Maybe they are a little uptight in Foxboro.
whoever heard of a beer tasting festivel?
It's called lunch at the pub, a couple times a week.
You try different beers as you go :)
PS - I am drinking wine tonight - but thats OK cos I am over 18,21 and wont sue Google.
PS I also have a customer with a boutique distillery, making fruit flavoured schhapps. They are on the "wine-tasting" circuit as well.
Added: And some of the wineries have them distill some product to brandy which they then sell from the wineries. Mmmmm Gerwurtztraminer brandy.
The statement made earlier about how you don't see any beer tasting festivals is ignorance. Every year, the San Francisco Bay Area has Micro-Brewery beer tasting festivals throughout many of it's cities.
