Hosts Boak & Bailey have announced the theme for the next Session: How did it all start for you?
Continuing the “Beervangelism” theme, we’d like you to write about the moment when you saw the light. At what point did you realise you were a beer lover/geek/enthusiast? What beer(s) triggered the conversion? Did someone help you […]

Jeff Bell/Stonch has posted the roundup for The Session #14: Beer People. Many outstanding posts, and one terrific suggestion from Jay Brooks.
But I wish I’d written this (and not only because it would mean I could still share a “snob beer” with my Dad):
Bob is my Dad. He drinks Labatt’s Blue religiously. Before Labatt’s it […]

In setting the theme for The Session #14: Beer People Jeff Bell asked for “pen portraits.”
At the risk of appearing lazy I’m letting the subject speak for himself. Ed Reisch was the fourth generation of his Springfield, Ill., family to oversee operations for Reisch Brewing Co. The brewery operated from 1849 until 1966, although Reisch […]

This BBC documentary on the English pub, really about much more, is worth the 40 or so minutes it runs. Grab a beer and get in the mood for Friday’s Session.

Just for yucks, you might open a second browser when Pete Brown is being interviewed and head to his blog for a more current […]

The Session heads across the Atlantic in April, with Stonch hosting Round #14 from his London stomping grounds.
The theme is “Beer People,” and he explains:
On Friday 4th April, the date of the next Session, I’d like you to write about people. Choose someone you know personally. That person might be a brewer, a publican, someone […]

Chris O’Brien has the complete round up for Session #13, and the turnout was impressive.
A lot of different beers, showing us just how deep the interest for organic beers runs, matched by good-to-read commentary about beer, brewing green and sustainability.
Despite all that plenty of outstanding beers didn’t get mentioned, which must mean something. There’s a […]

Don’t know how many of you frequent growers’ markets, so a quick description of how buying sweet corn works around here.
Quite often vendors will have the top of ears pealed back. This is so you can see how much damage the ear worm has done. When we get home we lop the portion the worm […]

Those of us just now emerging from a Session #12-induced fog were a bit surprised to see that the topic has already by set for Session #13.
For those of you good a math, #13 means we are heading into the second year of The Session. As we used to say in the Midwest, What a […]

Give beer bloggers an excuse to sit down with a barley wine or 20 and you see what happens . . .
Jon at the Brew Site has the roundup for The Session #12: Barley wine — 38 bloggers, 40 entries, over 64 beers reviewed as I type, with a few more likely to be […]

Note: This is my contribution to The Session #12: Barleywine, hosted by Jon at The Brew Site. Head on over to see what everybody else is drinking.
“When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered . . . the smell and taste of things remain […]