Posts Tagged: Styles
My Weekend With Hefe
Posted by on Saturday, May 12, 2007 in - 5 comments
My new hero • Not Heff! No, nothing like that. I said "hefe." My weekend has been one with the hefe even though I did not plan for it to play out that way. • As you know, like everything else - including, I learned today, canoes of all things - we Canadians suffer from high beer prices and … read more »
Session 3: The Unlikely Quest For Mild
Posted by on Thursday, May 3, 2007 in - 7 comments
What's wrong with our mild!?! • As discussed, Jay has determined that this months edition of "The Session" will be all about mild and there is a panic throughout the globe. Why? Because it is a style that no one makes much anymore. It is a bit of historical dead end, as a lighter maltier beer …
Session 3: A Case Of Mild Anxiety
Posted by on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 in - 6 comments
We've had the stouts and we've had the dubbels. And this Friday the third in the beerapalooza of a monthly series called "The Session" will focus on milds. Jay will be host over at Brookston Beer Bulletin and he has posted a great introduction to the style there today. • Trouble is, I can't find …
May Is The Month Of Mild
Posted by on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 in - 7 comments
I forgot to hold the little Olympic flag ceremony - you know the one at the end when the old city passes the games on to the new city when all the volunteers run around with big flags in patters you can't quite associate with a theme or, really, even a pattern all to the strained sounds of a minor …
Session 2: The Day Of The Dubbels Is Here!
Posted by on Friday, April 6, 2007 in - 20 comments
Here we are - The Day of the Dubbels, the second in what is sure to become an infinite number of monthly beer bloggy linkfests. I will be building up this post through out the day with updates from the global sessioning so check back in from time to time. You can catch up with the background of … read more »
Training For The Session
Posted by on Wednesday, April 4, 2007 in - 3 comments
I have to start doing spring training for Day of the Dubbels, coming up this Friday. I had not considered that it was going to be Good Friday when I picked one of the more ecclesiastical of ales for the theme for this week but it's a good thing I did pick something with a bit more strength as we …
Big Hop Bombs: The Week of Eleven Big US India Pale Ales
Posted by on Thursday, March 29, 2007 in - 2 comments
Two of my favorite eleven a side squads - IPA and AFC • Springtime is here. For me this is the perfect season for those American green, weedy IPAs that taste like liquid salad with gasoline for dressing. Autumn cries out for stouts and porters while winter needs a slow-sipped tripel or the malt …
Session 2: Don't Forget Your Dubbels
Posted by on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 in - 3 comments
Greg has reminded us to remind him to remind me that the day of the dubbels is coming a week Friday. I also rooted around in the cellar and found a bottle from a north-east US brewer that I bought a while ago, have never tried and forgot about so that should be an interesting taste. • Still, I … read more »
Can the Water Be The Best Part?
Posted by on Friday, March 9, 2007 in - 4 comments
Or if not the best part, can it be the thing that makes a beer extreme? [Or is it X-treme? Maybe X-treem! That's it.] • Anyway, Lew was asking again about session beers and X-treem! ones and wondered out loud if sessions are really just the lowest common denominators. Thinking about it, I wrote … read more »
I Declare! The Next Choice For The Session Is...
Posted by on Tuesday, March 6, 2007 in - 7 comments
Which author's second work out did his first? Who remembers the sophomore record by last year's big new band? That is sort of the feeling which I approach this, the declaration of the second beer style for The Session, the monthly global multi-blog-a-rama of beery goodness that was triggered by …
