Laid-Off Journalist Brews 'Unemployed Reporter Porter'

His homebrew, Unemployed Reporter Porter, includes “chocolate and roasted barley malts that are as dark and bitter as the future of American journalism” and “a high alcohol content designed to numb the pain of a slow, inexorable march toward obsolescence.”

The label, which you can view at CT.com, features a black and white photo of a journalist sitting over a typewriter and crying into his palms.

It also reads, “Porter style beers were first popularized in the nineteenth century by merchant sailors and manual dock laborers.