The Session #40: Session Beer

The Session #40: Session Beer

First Friday of the month means, for beer bloggers, that it’s time for another session of The Session! Each month’s Session is hosted by a fellow blogger who gets to pick the theme and then compiles all of the various blog postings for everyone’s reading enjoyment. This month’s Session is … Continue reading

The next Session (#40): Session Beer

The topic for next month’s Session (#40!) is up, and being hosted by Top Fermented: Session Beer. What is your definition of a session beer? Is it, as Dr. Lewis suggested at the Craft Brewers Conference this year, “a pint of British wallop” or is your idea of a session … Continue reading

The Session #39: Collaborations

The Session #39: Collaborations

The first Friday of the month means that among beer bloggers it’s time for The Session—a collaborative blogging effort where each month’s “host” suggests a topic and everyone writes about that. The host then compiles a summary and links to everyone’s respective writings. Appropriately enough, this month’s collaborative blogging efforts … Continue reading

The next Session: Collaborations

Mario Rubio has the honor of hosting The Session next month (May), and he’s going to be running the show over at Hop Press. The topic: Collaborations! The Hop Press is a collaboration of writers from around the world working on a common site. As host of The Session for … Continue reading

The Session #38: Cult Beer

The Session #38: Cult Beer

Welcome to the first Friday of April, and another edition of The Session! You all know the drill by now, right? If not, pop on over to Jay’s site and read his most excellent summary. In the meantime, I’m going to dive right into it. This month’s Session is being … Continue reading

Session #38 announced

The roundup for Session #37 has been posted (hmm, seems a little sparse; I don’t see mine or several others I remember reading listed there yet…) and the topic for The Session #38 for April has been announced: With Kate the Great Day a recent memory and the day of … Continue reading

The Session #37: When to Drink the Good Stuff

The Session #37: When to Drink the Good Stuff

Three years ago this month The Session celebrated its inaugural Friday with the topic of Stouts. This month, The Session’s third birthday, we have an entirely apropos topic: When to drink the good stuff, hosted by The Ferm. Finding a drinking occasion that lives up to the reputation of the … Continue reading

Reminder: The Session is this Friday

Don’t forget The Session is coming up this Friday, the 5th: the topic is “The Good Stuff” (when to drink it). Since it’s the anniversary of the first Session, and given the topic is “good stuff”, I may well open a 2007 Abyss to commemorate it.

The next Session: The Good Stuff

Next month, March 5th, is The Session’s third birthday: that’s right, three years ago March, the first Session stormed the internet on the topic of Stouts—“Not your father’s Irish Stout,” as suggested by Stan (who also came up with the idea of The Session). So it’s entirely appropriate that March’s … Continue reading

The Session #36: Cask-Conditioned Beer

The Session #36: Cask-Conditioned Beer

It’s the first Friday of the month again, and that means it’s time for “Beer Blogging Friday”—AKA The Session, the monthly collaboration of beer bloggers across the world to write about a common topic. All the participating blog posts will then be gathered and summarized by the host for the … Continue reading