The Session: Quarantine Edition

The Session: Quarantine Edition

The Session ended over a year ago, but these are unusual times, and Alistair Reece over at Fuggled proposed a special quarantine edition for old times’ sake: Yes you read that right, for a limited time only (quite possibly just this once, or maybe a few times depending on response) … Continue reading

The Session #142: One more for the road

The Session #142: One more for the road

It’s the last edition of The Session. Since March of 2007, The Session has been a group blogging project based on the premise that one person would “host” each month, suggesting a topic and then compiling everyone’s posts into a roundup so we could read about beer from a variety … Continue reading

The Session #141: The Future Of Beer Blogging

The Session #141: The Future Of Beer Blogging

This month’s late(r) edition of The Session is hosted by Jay Brooks, who has been helping to organize the monthly blogging project since the beginning, and he is asking us to consider The Future of Beer Blogging. And also, that this is apparently the second-to-last Session: My topic is fairly … Continue reading

The Session #140: Czech Beer

The Session #140: Czech Beer

This month’s edition of The Session is being hosted by Alistair Reece of Fuggled, and his topic for this month: Czech beer, or pivo. Alistair recounts the time he lived in the Czech Republic, and writes: I still remember my first Czech beer in situ, I’d had a couple of Czech … Continue reading

The Session #139: Beer and the Good Life

The Session #139: Beer and the Good Life

It’s the first Friday of September, Beer Blogging Friday, meaning it’s time for another round of The Session. This month’s topic is brought to us by Bill Vanderburgh of CraftBeerInSanDiego.com, and he is asking us to write about Beer and the Good Life: Beer ads famously sell us “the good life”–fit, … Continue reading

The Session #138: The Good in Wood

The Session #138: The Good in Wood

This month’s edition of The Session is hosted by Jack Perdue of Deep Beer, who is asking us to consider beer and wood. In The Good in Wood, Jack says: Wood has been used for millennia to store, transport and flavor beer, wine and spirits. Today, the relationship between wood … Continue reading

The Session #137: German Wheat Beers

The Session #137: German Wheat Beers

This latest edition of The Session for July 2018 is hosted by Roger’s Beer… and Other Drinks and covers an interesting topic: German Wheat Beers. I would like to clarify for myself the similarities and dissimilarities of weissbeers, kristall weizen, weizen, hefeweizen, etc. I’d love to read about the distinctions … Continue reading

The Session #136: Farmhouse Brewing

The Session #136: Farmhouse Brewing

This month’s edition of The Session is hosted by David S. of Brewing in a Bedsitter, and he suggests a topic that I don’t believe we’ve discussed as such before: Farmhouse brewing. Whether it’s about the success of modern craft breweries like Jester King and Burning Sky, the worldwide spread … Continue reading

The Session #135: Sepia Tones – Beer Nostalgia

The Session #135: Sepia Tones – Beer Nostalgia

This month’s last-minute topic for The Session is provided by Alistair Reece of Fuggled, and we are tasked with waxing nostalgic about beer: As the title of this post suggests, today I want you to put on your sepia tinted glasses and indulge in a little beer nostalgia, a bit of … Continue reading

The Session #134: Beer Gardens

The Session #134: Beer Gardens

This month’s edition of The Session is hosted by Thomas Cizauskas of Yours for Good Fermentables, who asks us to consider Beer Gardens. I’m late to the party due to some overall craziness and weekend traveling but here we go: What is a beer garden? Or what isn’t a beer garden? Or what should a beer garden … Continue reading