This started as a comment within the conversation following the previous post, but when it hit the third paragraph I thought it better to start anew. Perhaps I should have made myself clearer. – This is the opposite of marketing. We now have a broader choice of beers — some obviously better than others, and [...]

Last Wednesday, just hours after arriving in Chicago for the Craft Brewers Conference, I dutifully posted a photo of Halltertau hop queen Mona Euringer, linked it to via Twitter and Facebook and after that pretty much went back to 1998 or some other CBC in a different technological era. Blog? Tweet? I didn’t even attend [...]

Mario Rubio has announced the topic for The Session #39. Collaborations. That simple. But not necessarily that simple. Feel free to have fun with the topic. Drink a collaborative beer. Who’s brewed some of your favorite collaborations? Who have been some of your favorite collaborators? Who would you like to see in a future collaboration? [...]

Love this lead from the Indianapolis Star: “The rinsed aluminum cans met their destiny on a vibrating gravity slide, where they took a hit of carbon dioxide, got filled with foaming pale ale five at a time, then were sealed with a pop top.” Sun King in Indianapolis began canning beer last week. Just a [...]

It doesn’t take much to encourage me, so a couple of comments following last week’s list of links means a linkorama this week. However, when I started this post I took a quick detour so the buncholinks will have to wait until tomorrow or the next day. This is where I started, with this absolutely [...]

Were Mr. Sixpack (otherwise known as Don Russell) to participate today in our monthly session then he might quote liberally from his entry in 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout. “The Dark Lord exists mainly by reputation. His power is rumored, his character praised with cultlike [...]