Do you feel this way about your beer?
The New York Times (free registration) has a story today about Park B. Smith, one of the world’s great wine collectors. His cellar covers 8,000 square feet and holds more than 65,000 bottles (half of them magnums). It has a full kitchen, bath and living room.
This question […]

Jay Brooks added this comment yesterday to call the call for a beer blogging day. he was referring to an early round of e-mails where some of us discussed the logistics of doing this, including what it might be called.
First, from Jay.
For a name, what about:
1. Fermentation Friday
2. First Friday Fermentation
3. Firkin Friday
4. Frickin’ Firkin […]

Enough about session beers, at least for the moment. Let’s get back to hops.
Jay Brooks has the results of the Bistro’s 7th (yes, seventh, this is no fad) Double IPA Festival in Hayward, Calif.
The winner was Dorado Double IPA from Ballast Point Point Brewing, an old friend. We go back to when it was called […]

Still thinking about Alan McLeod’s contest when I should be working, which also means without a beer in hand to influence my thinking.
So the today’s one word thought: Hops. (Yesterday’s was “saison” - these don’t have to be exclusive).
But I also did a quick search to see what Michael Jackson might have written about this. […]

Having not been asked for two days what the heck Appellation Beer means I’m able to once again put off adding that explanation to About the Site.
But I will write that one thing I want it to mean is that context makes a difference. Before you fire off another what the heck question, look at […]

In the course of discussing chickens, eggs and session beers (sounds like a great beer cocktail, don’t you think?) I seem to have suggested that one way to get us all more low alcohol beers is to write more about them.
The label and it’s history (plus the fact it is from Utah) might make it […]

The other day, Lew Bryson repeated a quote from New Belgium brewer Matt Gilliland from his story in Beer Advocate magazine headlined: “Extremely Boring.”
It sounds a little like science, the sort of thing people will start repeating, and we’ll end up stuck with a slightly cock-eyed idea. Let’s not.
Gilliland said:
“From an evolutionary perspective, people are […]

Enough has been written about the totally stupid decision by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to ban minors from the 20th anniversary Oregon Brewers Festival. (Links at bottom.)
Instead, let Don Younger, whose Horse Brass Pub opened in 1976 and has been central in Portland’s transformation into “Beervana,” remind us of what it was like 30-plus […]

Just so that strong beer over in the corner with an extra bits of hops doesn’t feel totally unloved (see the previous post if this confuses you).
Proving once again that big beers get all the attention, the Akron Beacon Journal runs a story that begins:
They’re big.
They’re bad.
They’ll knock you on your fanny if you’re not […]

Lew Bryson, last mentioned here in the discussion of X beers (go directly to his comment, has joined the blogging ranks with a specific project in mind. He calls it The Session Beer Project.
I suggest that you go ahead and add Seen Through a Glass to your feed reader, bookmark it or do whatever you […]