Archive for the 'The Session' Category

Session #36: Cask ale – trading bubbles for flavor

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

This is my contribution to Session #36: Cask-conditioned ale that involves actual drinking of beer. Host Tom Cizauskas has the recap (plus plenty himself). I also wrote a little about cask ale in U.S. 15 or so years ago and posted an additional story (from 1997) in The Library.
This seems like a good Valentine’s Day [...]

Session #36: Start with the host

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

It’s Saturday morning and I’m sitting down to write my contribution to The Session #36: Cask-Conditioned Ale. I’m running behind because I just spent the last hour or so reading all the contributions host Tom Cizauskas solicited. Really wonderful and worth your time.
I particularly like Steve Hamburg’s recollections from the early, then later, days of [...]

Session #35 announced: New Beer’s Resolutions

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Naked Pint authors Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune will host The Session #35: New Beer’s Resolutions (sorry, Mr. B) on New Year’s Day.
So we want to know what was your best and worst of beer for 2009? What beer mistakes did you make? What beer resolutions do you have for 2010? What are your [...]

A reminder: Session #34 Friday

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

A quick reminder that Jim at Two Parts Rye hosts The Session on Friday. The theme is “Stumbling Home.”
Here’s the idea:
It’s time to give a shout out to your favorite watering hole. How good are the beers? Any interesting cast of characters? What are your drinking buddies like? They probably need [...]

Session #33: Some days you frame the beer

Friday, November 6th, 2009

This is my contribution to Session #33, and the theme is “framing beer.” Check out I’ll Have A Beer for an explanation and to see what other bloggers are writing.
It’s been a long, busy day and I’ve finally made it to a beer, Great Divide Hibernation, a beer I wrote about for Session #10. Just [...]

Session reminder: ‘Framing beer’

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Session #33 tomorrow, the theme being “Framing Beer.” Andy Couch has the explanation, because I’ll Have A Beer is the host.
I’m not sure about this part: “Ideally drink something that you don’t think you will like.”
And I’m also not sure if “framing beer” relates to the ongoing discussion about beer as art or the [...]

Session #32 wrapped up, #33 announced

Monday, October 5th, 2009

I plead work. Unfortunately I missed round 32 of The Session, but Girl Likes Beer has the roundup.
Meanwhile Andy Couch has announced the topic for No. 33 will be Framing Beer. The explanation is a little complicated, and you might want to read the whole thing, but here are a few of the options:
Relate an [...]

Session #31 wrapped up, #32 announced

Friday, September 11th, 2009

BetterBeerBlog has the roundup for Session #31: “Best Summer Beer” and Girl Like Beer announced the topic of No. 32 (Oct. 2): Eastern Beers.
I would like you to pick your favorite beer made east form your hometown but east enough that it is already in a different country. It can be from the closest [...]

The Session #31: Summer beers

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Where did the summer go?
Another Session tomorrow (Friday) and the theme is “summer beers.” Peter Estanial, of the Better Beer Blog, plays host and has the details.
With the summer coming to a close, what was your favorite beer of the summer? It doesn’t even have to be from this summer. Is it a lager [...]

The Session #30: Beer Desserts

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Don’t forget that Beer 47 hosts The Session on Friday. The topic is “Beer Desserts.”
David Jensen writes “What beer desserts have you tried and liked? Disliked? What beer styles work well with dessert and which ones do not? Do you have any beer dessert recipes that you enjoyed and would like to share?”
All you have [...]