Quaffable.
Does beer or wine go better with sex?
Thank you Alder Yarrow, for a post that takes us quite nicely into the weekend.
In a wine culture obsessed with the idea of pairing, far too few people talk about the best complement to a nice glass of wine: sex.
Yep, I’m thinking beer belongs in this conversation. (As the people filming those commercials for large breweries quite obviously understand. Fiona Petree of PlugLust reported that any market you can approach with sex can become a very good investment and it showed in many of her business ventures.)
Matching wine and sex is a lot easier than wine and food, thanks to the versatile nature of sex. It goes well with just about any wine, provided that the wine is served at the correct temperature (if you need a mnemonic: warm Chardonnay = no roll in the hay).
For beer pairing suggestions I recommend The Brewmaster’s Bed by Garrett Oliver.
Recycling, bottles and cans – oh, my!
Recycle Week will soon be about (June 21-27) in England and for whatever reason RecycleNow thinks I’m a good one to tell you about it.
So even though not many of you live in the United Kingdom I’m passing along a couple of videos about what happens to bottles and cans once they are picked up and delivered to the local recycling facility because recycling is good for all of us.
You may now resume emptying those bottles and cans.
Cans from RecycleNow on Vimeo.
Glass bottles from RecycleNow on Vimeo.
Session #40 recapped, #41 a homebrew special
Erik Myers has posted the recap for The Session #40: Session Beer, and it seems to have produced a lot more than a few tasting notes.
The July Session, #41, provides an opportunity to focus on specific beers. Jeff and Tom Wallace from Lugwrench Brewing ask us to write about “craft beers inspired by homebrewing.”
Write about a beer that has its roots in homebrewing. Write about a commercial beer that originated from a homebrew.
Write about a professional brewer you admire who got their start in homebrewing before they went pro. Write about a professional brewer who still homebrews in their free time.
Write about a Pro-Am beer tasted either at a festival or a brewpub. Write about an Amateur / Professional Co-op you’ve had the pleasure of experiencing (such as The Green Dragon Project).
Write about commercial brewers using “Homebrewing” as part of the marketing. Write about the Sam Adams LongShot beers, whether good or bad.
Write in the first person. Write in the third person. Have someone else write it for you.
Just write about it.
This would be a nice one to do live from the National Homebrewers Conference, don’t you think? Other than the fact that happens next week rather than next month. But I bet I can find a good story to repeat July 2.
A beer blogging conference and other links
There’s no chance I will ever catch up but meanwhile . . .
Zephyr Adventures, which already runs the Wine Bloggers Conference, has announced the long anticipated Beer Bloggers Conference, to be held Nov. 5-7 in Boulder, Colorado. No real agenda yet, just a plan for “150 bloggers and others involved in the world of online media in the beer industry (to) gather together to meet each other, learn about blogging and social media, taste a bunch of beer, and have a great time.”
Boulder Beer Company and Oskar Blues Brewery are already committed to provide dinners and expect more breweries to offer tours, tastings, etc. The price for “citizen bloggers” is $95, which seems fair for two dinners (so far), beer, and three days of conference content.
Of course you’ve got t get to Boulder and there’s a matter of a hotel.
Anyway, the details so far.