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 […]

Jon would like us to call it barleywine while some would call it barley wine. In any event, he’s announced that’s what we’ll be tasting for Session #12.
Is this the time to haul out the 1968 bottle of Thomas Hardy’s Ale? Probably not.
But perhaps a vertical of newer versions, or maybe six Sierra Nevada Bigfoots, […]

Wilson has posted the roundup for The Session #11–Doppelbock, the Illuminator.
Now I’m wishing I grabbed that bottle of Indian Wells Lobotomy Bock that I saw in Panamint Springs, but too late.
I promise to stick to style or topic for the February Session Feb. 1 (just two days before the Super Bowl). Jon Abernathy at The […]

So the sign on the side of Hofbräuhaus Las Vegas read “Double Bock Beer is here.”
My first thought Wednesday was, “This looks like my beer for The Session.” No, it didn’t read “doppelbock” but Samuel Adams calls its excellent doppelbock-style beer Double Bock. So perhaps the Germans figured that was a term Americans would better […]

Wilson at Brewvana has announced the topic for The Session #11. As he puts it:
I’ll be January’s host, hoping to be the instigator of beer excitement. Pollinator of beer enthusiasm. Elevator of beer appreciation. Detonator of beer discussion.
Yes, plan to have a dopplebock come Jan. 4.
If you are new to the idea you’ll find the […]