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Session #55 theme: Fabulous beer art

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

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 [...]

Session #54 (Sour Beer) roundup posted

Friday, August 12th, 2011

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 [...]

Topic for Session #54 announced: Sour Beer

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

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 [...]

Session #53 roundup posted; redeemed, or not

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

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 [...]

Session #53: Beer and redemption

Friday, July 1st, 2011

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 [...]

Session #53 topic announced: Redemption

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

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 [...]

Session #52 roundup posted

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

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 [...]

Session #52 announced: Beer collectibles

Monday, May 9th, 2011

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. [...]

Session #51 roundup posted, plus #51.5 suggestions

Sunday, May 8th, 2011

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 [...]

The Session #51: Simple pleasures

Friday, May 6th, 2011

Before the clock strikes twelve here in the Mountain Time Zone on Session Friday just a few thoughts vaguely related to our assignment for Session #51, hosted by Jay Brooks and called “The Great Online Beer & Cheese-Off.” I apologize for not exactly staying on track. If you read Jay’s post or Bryan Koselar’s you’ll [...]