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 [...]

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 [...]

Phil has nicely wrapped up The Session #58: A Christmas Carol at at Beersay and so it is on to #59. Host Mario Rubio offers a topic that won’t quite fit in a headline: “I Almost Always Drink Beer, But When I Don’t . . .” So as we are all incredibly interesting people, and [...]

This is my contribution to The Session #58, hosted by Phil Hardy at Beersay: A Christmas Carol. Visit his site for more posts. If you were going to buy Scrooge a beer for the holidays, realizing full well he wouldn’t be getting the next round, which one would you choose? This is easier to think [...]

Host Phil Hardy at Beersay has chosen a timely topic for The Session #58: A Christmas Carol. The idea for me was based loosely around the visits of three ghosts to Ebenezer Scrooge, but relayed in a post about the beers of Christmas past, present and future. What did you drink during Christmas holidays of [...]

This month’s Session is hosted by Steve Lamond at Beer’s I’ve Known. The topic is “beery guilty secrets.” I am a man without a beer epiphany. At least one of the aha sort. I don’t remember the what, when or where of my first beer. Or my first “better” beer. Or my first “craft” beer. [...]

Steve Lamond has stepped up in a late lineup change to host The Session this month. He agreed to take Pete Brown’s scheduled place because Brown is recovering from a stolen laptop. The topic for #57 will be “Beery Confessions: Guilty Secrets/Guilty Pleasure Beer.” One of the things I most enjoy about blogs and personal [...]

Reuben Gray has posted the roundup for The Session #56: “Thanks to the Big Boys.” A pretty good turnout for a topic Reuben feared wouldn’t generate much interest. Not everybody was inclined to actually thank the “Big Boys” (a category not everybody viewed the same way), at least without sarcasm dripping of their posts. But [...]

“My belief is that many microbrewers lack institutional memory. They don’t know how big brewers have saved this industry.” – Henry King (1921-2005) Even though seven-plus years after I interviewed Henry King for a story in New Brewer magazine I think he’d notice how many “microbrewers” had acquired the political and business savvy he was [...]

Reuben Gray has announced the topic for The Session #56. He’s calling it “Thanks to the big boys” and explains . . . What I ‘m looking for is this. Most of us that write about beer do so with the small independent brewery in mind. Often it is along the lines of Micro brew [...]