“You should have been here yesterday.” Oooh, that can hurt. “Too bad you can’t be here tomorrow.” That might inflict even more pain, because sometimes it seems like there should be a way to hang around an extra day (or two more weeks if necessary). In New Glarus, Wis., it was Dan Carey talking about [...]

What if the New York Post printed a beer column? If you aren’t familiar with the Post, and its well known Page Six, this may be lost on you. I picked up the paper because a) a tabloid is easier to deal with on a windy morning at the beach and b) while most other [...]

This week’s “Where in the beer world?” includes a person . . . for those of you with facial recognition software. A hint? We bought “scratch and dent” cheese at a store in a nearby town. These are cheeses presumably from small-batch cheesemakers of the region that didn’t end up quite right in the package, [...]

Both catching up and musing . . . – Nice interview with Jim Koch by Fortune. He says Sam Adams make flag waving, that is pointing out that every U.S. brewery larger than Boston Beer is foreign owned, part of its marketing program. Here’s the part I like. Our destiny is to remain very small. [...]

Just to mix things up, this week’s photo for “where in the beer world?” was not taken during our current adventure (which began May 21). It was snapped on a previous trip. Want a hint? It’s not the world’s most expensive hop cone. For those unfamiliar, here is how “where in the beer world?” works. [...]

How’s this for perspective? One of the provincial-run liquor stores in downtown Halifax has a nifty little display of “Beers of the World.” One of the beers is Old Milwaukee. Well, it is imported. Made me ask myself a different question: Where is Old Milwaukee the local beer?

Not sure if the seagull adding a pastoral note to this photo taken at Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia is the culprit, but yesterday we got dive bombed by a gull determined to eat some of our ice cream. First it swept over me (and missed), but it doubled back and nailed Daria’s cone as [...]

How bad do I feel I’ve missed the last two rounds of The Session? Jim has announced the theme for #19 is Deutsches Bier, and we’re going to Germany to be in place Sept. 5. OK, to be honest, we’ll be at Legoland in Ulm. The short version of a long story: As part of [...]

Ray has posted the roundup for The Session #18: “Happy Anniversary.” Nice turnout, although I must confess I was absent. We hiked up Mount Cadillac in Acadia National Park that day, saw nothing more than about 20 feet in front of us because of fog, got totally soaked (four days later and my boots are [...]

Do you think you know where in the beer world the photo above was taken? I hope that Round Three of this not-a-contest (though there will be prizes, details) turns out to be pretty easy for some of you. The second photo should guarantee that, so consider it your weekly hint. Comment away. I hope [...]