This is my contribution to the Session #37: “The Display Shelf: When to Drink the Good Stuff” or, if you prefer, “Raid the Cellar.” Visit The Ferm for links to more posts.
Is there a perfect beer for every particular special moment? Is there a time in every beer’s life when it tastes better than it [...]

Was Harriet Beecher Stowe thinking about beer?
“To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.”
Just so I don’t get injured when an empty bottle that once held *xtr*m* beer rattles off my skull, it’s also OK to do uncommon things perfectly.
 

Truth is sometimes I turn these lists into a post so I have the links saved for more careful reading later.
Why Should Terroir Matter . . . from a speech by Randall Grahm. I don’t care about “saving” high end wines, but thought provoking. I suspect most of the time we should be happy [...]

(Note: This post was amended Feb. 24 to eliminate babbling that got in the way of actual story.)
Tomorrow’ s The New York Times carries an article about “tasting Belgian golden ales.” Perhaps surprisingly American beers claimed four the first five spots although half of the 20 beers tasted hailed from Belgium.
The first and fourth [...]

You can buy used spirit barrels from Port Brewing (aka The Lost Abbey).
Cheap. Until you try to figure out how to get one home. Particularly when home is Vermont or Florida or another place not San Diego.
 

Watch to the end. Think about it.
 

Four Innovation Lessons from Anheuser-Busch.
(Thanks to Lager Heads for the, well, heads up).
It’s popular to write that [fill in the name of a large brewing company] could replicate any beer in the world if it really wanted to. But could it? Would its corporate culture let it?
Think of any innovative beer you cherish popular beer [...]

Pardon this brief advertisement. The printer will ship Brewing with Wheat next week, meaning it goes to the distributors and then to stores. It could be in your hands by the end of the month.
The “public service” announcement here is that you can pre-order it for 20 percent off from Brewers Publications, entering the [...]

Jean-Marie Rock began brewing beer professionally in 1972. For the last 25 years he’s been in charge of the Orval Trappist monastery brewery. He understands brewing cred. Celebrity? Another matter.
He’s been to Kansas City twice recently. Posing for pictures, signing empty beer bottles, he found out quickly he wasn’t in Belgium any more.
“The biggest change [...]

Taken 01.23.10 at Durango Mountain Resort, still known to many of us as Purgatory Ski Area. These guys could have done better (the one on the left had his can of Pabst to the left of his chair). Several Durango beers on tap, including SKA’s Euphoria, an aromatic bomb.
Euphoria’s also available in cans, 12-ouncers. Durango [...]