I enjoy the occasional microbrew or craft beer. It’s true. On the weekend it is nice to stop by a local place that carries beer like Shiner Bock, Abita TurboDog, Flying Dog Pale Ale and the like. I’m not saying it’s an obsession just an occasional indulgence. I thought it would be nice to have a little beer blog where I make a post about the beer of the weekend. Just a write up about what I thought about it and maybe a link to the microbrewery’s website.

Now my friend, let’s call him “Bob”. “Bob” likes beer and he knows a lot about microbrews from his personal sampling. So, when it came time to have someone guest post on my blog, the first person I thought of was “Bob”. Maybe I should have thought about it some more….

“Bob” was given full administrator rights to this blog. That means he could make posts at will without my reviewing, editing or approving. Whatever came to him at whatever time. Remember this is a beer blog. The idea was that he would contribute content and we would split the Adsense revenue….yeah.

His first post….second post….and third post was entitled “Beer Talking”. I am not kidding but I wish he was when he made this following post:

welcome, this is Beer Talking

hey, i’ve been enjoying “rogue dead guy ale” recently, they sell it in

a little booze store down the street from me. its strange , they sell

about 3 different microbrews and this is one of them. is rogue big time

or something? its from oregon (i’m in ohio),and the other two microbrews

they sell are kinda local. anyway , this beer kicks my ass, and i blast

music and sing along when i drink this, so try this beer , if you have’nt already.tell us

what you think.

i plan on talking about beers i’ll try, places i’ve been and had some

local brews,etc, nothing in depth obviously, ……

until next time….beer it up

There were two more posts like this. I’ll save you the time and not quote them. Now I like “Bob” a lot and he is a super great guy but this isn’t exactly what I had envisioned for the site. Which is why I should have….

Lesson:

Even if it is your best friend, spouse, boss, “Bob”…whatever. Please review and edit posts before they are allowed to be published. You can do this in Wordpress by registering your guest blogger as either an “Author” or “Contributer”. This means that they can still write posts for your blog but it won’t be published until either an Editor or Administrator (yourself) has looked and approved the post. Also, it would be even better if they already have a blog and you can sample their writing style and make sure it flows and works with your site and style. Because when it comes down to it, it is your blog and it is your name and reputation that is at stake.