> "Let's not belabor this over beers but I'll send you a link to something I wrote. It may be a little bit stale but let me know what you think and we can follow up."

How is it being received by those people? I can't help but imagine the response being:

"Okay but then what's the point of us sitting here with beers?"

EDIT:

If I was hanging out talking with someone, and have them terminate an interesting conversation topic by plugging their blog article, I'd feel cut off, and might even start to wonder if they're really seeing me as a friend or colleague, or is this networking for them?

It's not the blog reference itself, but rather cutting off a conversation topic this way, that would irk me in such situation.