Posts Tagged: American Beer
Session 49: Sweet! Season 5 Starts With Regular Beer
Posted by on Thursday, March 3, 2011 in - 7 comments
Stan blames me - and why not? I have plenty to answer for. Generally. In life. And in beer. You know. I know. But do I care? No. Well, not much. In this case, it's OK as it's the beginning of the fifth year of these sessions and I am happy to take the blame. Stan is the host this month and he …
Haiku On Being In A North Syracuse Motel In February
Posted by on Saturday, February 19, 2011 in - 18 comments
It doesn't take much to excite a Canadian. A roadside chain hotel in central New York with a pool to placate the kids. A grocery store with a great selection of beer and many other things at great prices. I am moved to haiku. • Grocery store beer • Bests Our Government Store's shelves …
What Would It Take To Get Miller To Sponsor Me?
Posted by on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 in - 8 comments
People need to hold out for a bit more: • Apparently the marketing folks at Miller encountered some semblance of self-awareness. They shunned the major sports sponsorship – Bud Light already holds the NBA and MLB official sponsorship, and will inherit the NFL's next year – to cast their …
Beer News: "It's Not My Country But..." Edition
Posted by on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 in - 5 comments
I am a lazy beer blogger. An intensely lazy one. I have not yet sent out the four prize packages that I am duty bound to mail to winners in Ontario, Norway, Costa Rica and the Czech Republic. Sure there were Christmas parties needing attending and holiday travel and also a cold that won't go away …
Book Review: Great American Craft Beer, Andy Crouch
Posted by on Sunday, August 15, 2010 in - 1 comment
One of the most important things I ever learned in life was the importance of an index. Why? Well, if you are overwhelmed by information as I was in law school I learned that reading the index for each course's material (because that is what we called it: "material") was what was in the course and …
Session 40: Session Beer Is All Around Us
Posted by on Saturday, June 5, 2010 in - 18 comments
There is a joke in Canada about why drinking American beer is like making love in a canoe. The punchline notes their common proximity to water. We may protest that those days are long gone if they ever existed. But who are the "we" who protest? One of the fallacious ideas popular among craft beer …
Rhode Island: Lager And Porter, Narragansett
Posted by on Saturday, January 9, 2010 in - 7 comments
I got a few emails from very nice people representing Narragansett over the fall asking if I would like some samples and, of course, I said yes. From Great American Beer, I learn that the brand was bought back from Pabst in 2003 by Mark Hellendrung, a local businessman. So, while I was not …
Craft Or Kraphtt: Bud Light Golden Wheat, Shops, USA
Posted by on Thursday, November 5, 2009 in - 4 comments
Knut mocked me. I have never been mocked by a Norwegian. It stung. But Lew had me thinking. • It pours the orange amber of Syracuse Pale Ale or London Special Ale. On the sniff, a whiff of mute orange and spice. In the gaping maw, it's a bit like a craft beer as seen through the wrong end of …
Could The New York Times Please Get A Beer Writer?
Posted by on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 in - 6 comments
I am not going to go off my marbles or anything. And I will not cartoon. No, I will not. But a while ago I was turned off by Eric Asimov - the wine writer for the New York Times - and his tale of how craft beer was becoming legitimate because it could be found in places where he liked the food …
Session #32: USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Posted by on Saturday, October 3, 2009 in - 2 comments
This month's edition of The Session is about beer to the east. I had worried for a while about making sure I had the right be, the most easterly. But to heck with that. I am going to write about my entire relationship with the nation to my east, the U.S.A. • I have to confess something - I buy …
