For a community event magazine Flag Live does alright. The last few months they have been advertising a new website launching, I had my doubts about how good it would be but tried to keep an open mind. Today I finally got around to looking at it. Very slick magazine style, but for a community publication very dull. The picture and design style is very slick. No sense of community to it, it could have been made anywhere. Nothing really about it that makes it a place on the web I would bother to visit. No unique content to the website, no blog, no way for the audience to participate with the paper.

So when you see the ad encouraging you to check out their 'new website' don't bother it's the same content you just read in the paper...*yawn*

Okay, more like hops, but it was going to be beer. The US is such a large hop producer I doubt we will notice impact at your local pub, but us homebrewers may notice a slight bump in the price of our hops in the next few months.

ps - Some one on the Brewing Network noticed the following...

"Federal investigators were set Tuesday to begin an investigation into a fire that ruined about 4 percent of America's yield of hops, used as flavoring in the brewing of beer and ale."

Beer and ale, funny I always thought ale was a kind of beer, just goes to show you what happens with you send a unknowledgable reporter to write a story.