Curtis at HopHeadSaid hosts The Session #55, asking contributors to to write about “fabulous world of beer art found on coasters, labels and caps.” This is my contribution. Check out what everybody else has to say in his roundup. The liquid is gone. Bits of paper and vivid memories remain. As much affection as I [...]

Curtis at HopHeadSaid has asked us all to write about “fabulous world of beer art found on coasters, labels and caps” for The Session #55. The basics: Choose your favorite label, coaster or cap art. Scan, download or take a picture of your label, coaster or cap art. Write a paragraph that explains your affinity [...]

Jon Abernathy has posted the roundup for The Session #54: Sour Beer. I must confess I was absent. (I only managed a post for #IPADay because I wrote it before hitting the road.) But I enjoyed the roundup and plan to further investigate the links when I’m back on U.S. soil. Meanwhile I will be [...]

Jon Abernathy has announced the topic for The Session #54: Sour Beer. A little hard to believe that this many rounds into The Session that the theme of the month has not focused specifically on sour beers, isn’t it? I’ll leave the implementation up to you, but here are some suggestions: seek out and review [...]

John Holl has posted the roundup for The Session #53: Beer Redemption. Head over and hit a few links, because one idea behind starting The Session in 2007 was to see what those of us who already knew each other might have to say about the same topic. Another was to make sure we listened [...]

I’m pretty sure host John Holl did not have what follows in mind when he ask us to write about “Beer Redemption” for the 53rd gathering of The Session. But sometimes the hyperlinks in my brain get crossed. I went from thinking about how a beer might redeem itself (not making a connection) to how [...]

John Holl has announced the topic for The Session #53: Beer Redemption. No, he not suggesting everybody track down a bottle of Russian River Brewing’s Redemption. Holl explains by offering a story about why refused to drink beer from Smuttynose Brewing for nine years, and ultimately how silly that decision was. It his story of [...]

Brian Stechschulte has posted the roundup for Session #52: Beer Collectibles & Breweriana. I was AWOL, not just because most our collectibles were on a big truck rolling from New Mexico to Missouri. Moving, granted on a shorter term basis, turned out to be just as disruptive as traveling around in an RV for 14 [...]

Brian Stechschulte has announced the theme for The Session #52 will be Beer Collectibles & Breweriana. He explains, “So what old or new beer related items do you collect and why? It’s that simple. This is your opportunity to share the treasured objects your wife or husband won’t let you display on the fireplace mantle. [...]

Put your beer and cheese shopping shoes back on. Jay Brooks has already posted the roundup for The Session #51, which is full of cheese and beer ideas for a special mid-month session. He’s organized the results in an easy-to-read format that pretty much doubles as a shopping list. The mid-month session is open to [...]