Archive for January, 2012

What’s news to me might not be news to you

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

If you’d like to see what my head looks like on a platter, you might try to reconstruct1 the happenings on Twitter last week when I naively noted: “Sorry, but it seems strange to call an unconfirmed rumor one of the ‘Top 5 beer stories’” of the year’” along with this link. Because this was [...]

Monday beer links: Beers and breweries somebody calls ‘best’

Monday, January 9th, 2012

It’s Monday, so a few links. Big picture and 2011 recap stuff. Some are lists. * The boom continues. In Chicago, in New York, and in Longmont, Colo. Maybe this is why I spotted a beer delivery truck advertising Dale’s Pale Ale in Manhattan. * Big Eddy. Don Russell makes Leinenkugel’s Big Eddy Russian Imperial [...]

Session #59: With a little help from his winemaking friends

Friday, January 6th, 2012

For The Session #59, host Mario Rubio provides these marching orders: “Let’s talk about what we drink when not drinking beer.” Alan doesn’t approve, and — to be honest — I’m feeling challenged. We do drink other stuff in our house. We had Tom & Jerry’s when we decorated our tree, enjoyed homemade eggnog on [...]