We’ve got turkey brining for tomorrow, using one of many recipes The Homebrew Chef Sean Paxton has generously posted at his web site.
If you’ve been procrastinating and are still looking for ideas about what to cook for Thanksgiving then you’ll find some different ones here — although in some cases you needed to start preparations […]

A few things to read this evening instead of watching “Dancing with the Stars” or “Two Dudes Catering” (even though cheese is involved) and perhaps while doing research for The Session #10:
- Andrew Jefford, multi-purpose UK drinks writer, asks a question.
One day, fortunes will be made with fine beer. Why not one day soon?
In […]

Researchers are reporting (I like the National Geographic version) that chocolate was discovered by accident by Central American Indians who were making beer.
“In the course of beer brewing, you discover that if you ferment the seeds of the plant you get this chocolate taste,” said John Henderson, an anthropologist at Cornell University. “It may be […]

Ted Duchesne at Barley Vine has announced the theme for The Session #10: “Let it snow, let it snow, Winter Seasonal Beers.”
The basics:
# Pick any Winter Seasonal beer you want. Or a sampler if you’d like (think the Sam Adam’s one I picked up earlier this week).
# If you select a single beer, let […]

Once a good ol’ beer person, always a good ol’ beer person.
Lucy Saunders can’t help herself. She’s a beer person, and that shows up on every page of The Best of American Beer & Food: Pairing & Cooking with Craft Beer.
(Disclaimer: Lucy has been a friend of my wife and I for 15 years, and […]

Captain Hops wraps up Session #8 with a haiku of course:
Another Session
Connects, satisfies, and builds
Beer community
He reports: “By my (non-scientific) count there were 28 participants, 16 recipes, descriptions of 4 formal beer dinners, and at least 60 beer and food pairing recommendations. In addition, I counted 7 first time Session participants.”
Session #9 will be hosted […]

Since the theme for Session #8 (What’s the Session? Start here) is Beer and Food in that order let’s get right to the beer, an Oktober beer. A Fest bier. Now what about the food?
Eleven years ago my wife (the first beer writer in our family and still everybody’s favorite) assembled the Brewpub Cookbook for […]

I think I put on five pounds this week just reading or thinking about food and beer together.
Lucy Saunders’ new book arrived in the mail this week, I received a press release about a beer cookbook out in January and I chatted with a chef who has a different, and I think excellent, idea on […]

Captain Hops of Beer Haiku Daily has made the call for Session #8 and it’s “Beer and Food.”
No, you don’t have to include a haiku.
And, yes, just yesterday I commented this beer and food thing was gaining traction.
I am looking for posts about pairing beer with food or using beer as an ingredient in food. […]

Is this beer and food thing gaining a little momentum or is it my imagination?
- Otter Creek Brewing will continue to host its weekly local cheese and beer pairings each Friday through October as part of the brewery’s “Local foods meet Local Brews” events.
The free beer and cheese pairings, which include eight different Vermont […]