Archive for June, 2010

Recycling, bottles and cans – oh, my!

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Recycle Week will soon be about (June 21-27) in England and for whatever reason RecycleNow thinks I’m a good one to tell you about it. So even though not many of you live in the United Kingdom I’m passing along a couple of videos about what happens to bottles and cans once they are picked [...]

Session #40 recapped, #41 a homebrew special

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Erik Myers has posted the recap for The Session #40: Session Beer, and it seems to have produced a lot more than a few tasting notes. The July Session, #41, provides an opportunity to focus on specific beers. Jeff and Tom Wallace from Lugwrench Brewing ask us to write about “craft beers inspired by homebrewing.” [...]

A beer blogging conference and other links

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

There’s no chance I will ever catch up but meanwhile . . . Zephyr Adventures, which already runs the Wine Bloggers Conference, has announced the long anticipated Beer Bloggers Conference, to be held Nov. 5-7 in Boulder, Colorado. No real agenda yet, just a plan for “150 bloggers and others involved in the world of [...]

Session #40: When is a session a Session?

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Have you heard the one about an Englishman, a Belgian and a Czech who walk into a drinking establishment, whereupon the Englishman orders a round of “session” beers? There is no punchline. Instead another question. What do you think the Czech is drinking? The topic for the 40th gathering of The Session is Session Beer. [...]