Mario Rubio has announced the topic for The Session #39. Collaborations. That simple. But not necessarily that simple. Feel free to have fun with the topic. Drink a collaborative beer. Who’s brewed some of your favorite collaborations? Who have been some of your favorite collaborators? Who would you like to see in a future collaboration? [...]

Were Mr. Sixpack (otherwise known as Don Russell) to participate today in our monthly session then he might quote liberally from his entry in 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout. “The Dark Lord exists mainly by reputation. His power is rumored, his character praised with cultlike [...]

Sean Inman has posted the theme for The Session #38. With Dark Lord Day 2010 right around the corner you should be able to figure out what he is aiming for. What beer have you tasted recently (say, the last six months or so) that is worthy of their own day in the media sun? [...]

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 [...]

Tom Cizauskas has posted the roundup for Session #36: Cask-Conditioned Beer. Be sure to make to all the way to the end and the links to all the non-bloggers who Tom prodded into contributing. Don’t miss his own post about local hops for local beer.    

SirRon at The Ferm has announced the topic for Session #37, so we begin the fourth year of first Friday drinking with marching orders to write about “The Display Shelf: When to Drink the Good Stuff.” The explanation: “The topic is open ended and the rules of The Session are close to nil. You can [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 to be [...]