Jay Brooks has announced the topic for Session #51, and volunteered to host Session #51.5 as well. He calls it “The Great Online Beer & Cheese-Off” and it takes a little explaining. Like somewhere north of 1,300 words. So the short version. Get some cheese — perhaps Maytag Blue, Widmer 1-Year Aged Cheddar and Cypress [...]

Alan McLeod has posted his roundup for the 50th Session, so quickly some contributors may still be hung over. He concludes: “But, as you see, there was a lot to it but only in the sense of how the answer explains the question. And, as a result, it is I who is the Grasshopper so [...]

You can go through the motions with your magic spells Buy all the potions that Fifth Avenue sells You can try to call down all the stars above, but – Don Henley concludes “you can’t make love.” Were this YouTube you might listen to me instead sing, “you can’t make me buy your beer.” That [...]

After much brain and soul searching, Alan McLeod has settled on the theme for the 50th Session: How Do They Make Me Buy The Beer? Think about it. You have until April 1. Then post. Alan points out the question is “multi-faceted.” The wording itself is intriguing. Does a brewery make you buy beer? Did [...]

Based upon the turn out for The Session #49 it would appear regular beers still matter. So let’s get right to the links. Best use of graphs Five Hundred And One Beers. Or as the first comment notes, “Geekalicious.” My favorite line “Beer has long been a regulator in civilization and for that, we are [...]

This is my contribution to the 49th gathering of The Session. The theme is “regular beers” and my post is a bit late, but I have a good excuse. Besides, as the host I guess I can do any dang thing I want. Just to make sure all the dispatches from far flung outpost have [...]

The topic for today’s 49th gathering of The Session is “regular beer.” Since I’m the host I offered to publish posts from readers who don’t maintain blogs. This is the second of two. By Bill Farr (a semi-regular commenter here) How I gained a regular beer and wrestled with virtually every issue related to “good [...]

The topic for today’s 49th gathering of The Session is “regular beer.” Since I’m the host I offered to publish posts from readers who don’t maintain blogs. This is the first of two. By Jeffrey McElfresh, Dayton, Ohio Regular beer holds a special place in my beery heart, because, it is anything but “regular.” First, [...]

Don’t forget The Session #49 on Friday, when the theme is “regular beer.” The Session is open to anybody, so if you don’t have one and want to write a post I’ll publish it here. If you are a blogger, email me with the URL Friday 4 or post a comment here, and by early [...]

For reasons I don’t recall — but I’m pretty sure Alan is to blame — Season Five of The Session begins with your first three hosts returning to organize a round. I’m up first. I imagine myself a Clydesdale, being led back to pasture come spring. (OK, that metaphor might not be working. Was I [...]