The Session #112: The Other Beer Economy

The Session #112: The Other Beer Economy

This month’s edition of The Session is hosted by Carla Jean Lauter, The Beer Babe, who wants us to write about The Other Beer Economy: Growing alongside of the boom of breweries are many small businesses that are supporting, or supported by the craft beer industry. Yet, we rarely give … Continue reading

The next Session: The secondary beer economy

Carla Jean Lauter, aka The Beer Babe, is hosting The Session #112 for the month of June. The topic: The Other Beer Economy. Growing alongside of the boom of breweries are many small businesses that are supporting, or supported by the craft beer industry. Maine is now home to a … Continue reading

The Session #111: A Beer Midlife Crisis

The Session #111: A Beer Midlife Crisis

This past first Friday called for another beer blogging round of The Session, in which we look to our host-of-the-month to provide a topic upon which to write about. This month’s edition was hosted by Oliver Gray of Literature & Libation, and he has asked us to consider Surviving a Beer … Continue reading

The Session #110: Twitter

The Session #110: Twitter

I actually did participate in this month’s edition of The Session—though not in the usual way. You see, April’s Session was hosted by the upstanding Sean Inman of Beer Search Party, and the topic was Twitter: With the possible lifting of word sanctions on Twitter, the Dickensian multi-part tweets from … Continue reading

The Session #109: Porter

The Session #109: Porter

Today being the first Friday of March means it’s also time for another round of The Session! The Session is a collaborative beer blogging project whereupon we bloggers write a post predicated on a given theme or topic of the month, suggested by our host who will later aggregate all the … Continue reading

The next Session has been announced: Porter

Over on By The Barrel, my friend Mark (AKA the Bend Beer Librarian) is hosted next month’s Session and he has announced the topic: Porter. Yes, Porter—a style topic I couldn’t believe we hadn’t covered in a Session before, but here we are. Mark writes: I am not talking about … Continue reading

The Session #108 Roundup

Cheers to everyone who participated in this month’s edition of The Session! Here’s the roundup of contributions; I believe I have listed all of them, but if there are any I missed please leave a comment below. Nick over at Lautering.net relates a time over a decade ago when he … Continue reading

The Session #108: Snowed In!

The Session #108: Snowed In!

This month I have the honor of hosting The Session, our beer blogging first Friday event, for which I have suggested the topic — Snowed In! which you can read about here — and which I will also be collecting all the contributions for a round-up blog post so we can … Continue reading

Reminder: The next Session is “Snowed In” on Feb. 5

Just a quick reminder: in less than two weeks, on Friday, February 5, I’m hosting the next round of The Session. The theme is “Snowed In,” and I want it to be open-ended. It’s the first week of February—we are solidly in the grip of the winter, which means hunkering … Continue reading

Announcing the next Session (#108): “Snowed In!”

Announcing the next Session (#108): “Snowed In!”

It’s been a number of years since I last hosted The Session; the first time was way back in February of 2008, where I asked bloggers to write about Barleywines, and the next time was August of 2011, where the entreaty was Sour Beers. So it was time to host … Continue reading