Given that Alan McLeod nominated him to be a dinner guest at Alan’s Beer Fantasy Dinner, Martyn Cornell was inspired to come up with his own guest list:
- Samuel Johnson
- Dylan Thomas
- George Izzard
- Emer O’Neill
He explains why at his blog, The Zythohhile, and titles the post “Guess who’s coming to dinner.”
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Welcome to The Session #10, hosted this month by Ted at Barley Vine. The theme “Let it snow, let it snow, Winter Seasonal Beers” does not leave us wanting for choices.
Lest there be any doubt: Don Russell offered a combined history lesson/shopping list last week, a Baltimore Sun panel tasted a whopping 52 winter beers, […]

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Eric Delia may be be relatively new to blogging, but has some interesting things to say — check out the post titled A Disturbing Trend. I’m hitting the road for a few days, but had to post this first because . . . Levi […]

As you might be able to tell from the full title of “To Cork or Not To Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle,” author George Taber is a wine guy.
He happens to have been the Time magazine correspondent who attended the 1976 event that turned out to be known as […]

Port Brewing/Lost Abbey brewmaster Tomme Arthur writes it took him a week to come up with the guest list for his Fantasy Beer Dinner.
- William Shakespeare (that makes two votes for The Bard, leaving him neck-and-neck with Martin Luther)
- Adolphus Busch
- Brian Wilson
- Thomas Jefferson
Tomme’s got all the details at his Brewer’s Log.
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Alan McLeod has been writing about beer at A Good Beer Blog since 2003, “allowing the world to follow the highs and lows of his beery education in real time.” In addition to writing a few articles for trade magazines, this year he was asked […]

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Jeff Bell (a.k.a. Stonch) is the freelance British beer writer behind Stonch’s Beer Blog and his work also appears in the print media. He focuses on his hometown of London, but notes, “I get around Europe and am a zealous advocate of Italian artisanal brewing.”
In case […]

In the preface to Land of Amber Waters: The History of Brewing in Minnesota author Doug Hoverson writes how he came to decide that there might be something he could add to the literature on Minnesota’s breweries:
“Without making this sound like a research grant proposal, I think it is easy to demonstrate that the […]

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Rick Sellers started Pacific Brew News in 2005 (website, blog and podcast) and this year his articles started showing up in print. He recently signed on as Beer Director for DRAFT Magazine.
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Before jumping into a bookish week here — reviews plus the requisite holiday suggestions — a few beer links to kick start your week. Don’t forget that its ends with The Session #10: “Let it snow, let it snow, Winter Seasonal Beers.”
- Concern about the carbon footprint of older appliances, particularly refrigerators, is quite valid. […]