Carla Companion, the Beer Babe, has picked the topic for The Session #64 and it is Pale Ale. Find two of them, drink them, write about them. It’s that simple. The Session has taken many twists and turns since the first one in March of 2007, many of them delightful. But I never would have [...]

Pete Brown didn’t waste any time rounding up The Session #63: The Beer Moment. You might waste a little of your own once you start in on the lot; in total, pretty dang thoughtful. And as this exchange indicates, a topic that begged to be discussed over a beer. Alan McLeod: “There is no beer [...]

Pete Brown charged us to write about The Beer Moment for Session #63. The announcement provoked a few questions about what the heck he expected, and this week he added a little more direction. But I’d already decided that since I’d be surrounded by brewers and others involved in the beer industry during the Craft [...]

Pete Brown has announced the topic for Session #63 in May: The Beer Moment. What is it? Well, what is it to you? What does that phrase evoke for you? That’s the most important thing here. Switch off and float downstream, what comes to mind? Don’t analyse it – what are the feelings, the emotions? [...]

Angelo De Ieso has posted one of the most complete Session roundups ever for #62: “What Drives Beer Bloggers.” And as a bonus (or not, depending on your tastes) he included photos. As far as navel gazing1 goes, Friday’s Session was above average (again, your mileage may vary). As he concluded: “Lots of commonalities and [...]

Angelo at Brewpublic hosts The Session #62, asking us to write about “What Drives Beer Bloggers?” You’ll find more confessions there. The about/mission page pretty much explains why this blog exists. I’m not sure you should care what motivates me to serve that mission (on at least 4.57 posts out of 10), or in fact [...]

Angelo at Brewpublic has announced the topic for The Session #62: “What Drives Beer Bloggers?” Yes, the obvious answer should be: A designated driver. But let’s get right to the navel gazing.1 Your mission as a craft beverage blogger reading this post, should you choose to accept it, is to compose a post on the [...]

Matt at The Hoosier Beer Geek has recapped Session 61: What makes local beer better? I am really happy with all of the writing this month. I tried to keep the question vague on purpose, and many people took it quite literally, while others took a completely different spin. This seems like a pretty divisive [...]

The Session #60, Let’s Talk Growlers, is in the record books. Now we begin Year Six of The Session in Indiana. (Year Six, meaning we started five years ago. Pretty amazing. “What Goes Around… Comes Around” was atop the music charts.) Hoosier Beer Geek Matt Robinson asks we consider this question over beer: What makes [...]

Oops, it appears I failed to report Mario Rubio posted the roundup for The Session #59: “I Almost Always Drink Beer, But When I Don’t.” I did and I apologize. Kendall Jones at Washington Beer Blog has chosen the topic for #60: Growlers Galore. Tell us about your growler collection. Tell us why you love [...]