Jay Brooks has created a logo for The Session. He’s even given us multiple options – both to the size you use and also if you want to include the words “Beer Blogging Friday.” I haven’t decided which I prefer, so don’t be surprised if you come back and words magically appear in the red [...]

Here’s an example of what I mean by beer from a good home: Berkshire Brewing in South Deerfield, Mass. Ann Cortissoz profiles the brewery in today’s Boston Globe (free registration). Co-founders Gary Bogoff and Chris Lalli began selling beer in 1994 after friends helped them rehab on old cigar factory. They coaxed 6,000 barrels a [...]

I posted details of the Thomas Hardy tasting (’83, ’89, ’94, ’95, ’96 and ’97) at Beer Therapy. I’ll quickly add that if you are laying these beers down that the vintages in larger bottles seem to age a little more slowly.

No editor would accuse these guys of “burying the lead.” “I think we can all agree that beer in its modern form is the pinnacle of human achievement.” So begins a column that Mark Tichenor and Bruce Lish write in Rochester, N.Y., and also post in a blog. This one was about “The anatomy of [...]

With a nod toward Bill Maher’s “New Rules” as opposed to Miller’s Man Laws … THE BACKGROUND: A little over a week ago we were in California for some meetings. For evening diversion, Real Beer co-founder Mark Silva brought along vintage beers for “vertical” tastings (where you sample the same beer across a number of [...]

If start with Lew Bryson’s post What We “Owe” the Industry (even if you don’t wade through he comments which weave here and there) then what follows might make more sense. Alan McLeod brought something else to the conversation when he asked Do We Love The Beer Or Brewer? For me these questions are related [...]

Come Friday a bunch of us are going to write about stouts. The theme, class, is “Not your father’s Irish stout.” Do we have to have a name, too? I’d like to get that out of the way, so I can help answer Alan McLeod’s question Do We Love the Beer or Brewer? and track [...]

Don’t expect me to answer that question. It was posed by Stonch at Lew Bryson’s Seen Through a Glass, and I started to comment there before I realized I was about to exceed a sensible length for comments. The Brewers Association has a specific definition (scroll down on that page): CRAFT BEER: Craft beers are [...]

There has been a fair amount of hand-wringing as the partnership of Fordham Brewing and Anheuser-Busch prepares to close on its deal to buy Old Dominion Brewing. That’s understandable. Change is not always good. But what we should not be worrying about is the fact that Anheuser-Busch is involved in the deal. Today The Long [...]

One of the categories here is Beer & Wine. That’s not Beer versus Wine. Jennifer Jordan would seem to disagree. She has written a stupid, and offensive to many, piece titled “Climbing the Liquor Ladder: Going from Beer to Wine.” What’s amazing is how many beer drinkers joined the conversation (which is what blogs are [...]