Posts Tagged: Thinking About Beer
So What Exactly Is A Session Beer?
Posted by on Sunday, August 31, 2008 in - 14 comments
A couple of articles I read this past week got me thinking again about that spiny question of what exactly constitutes a session beer. There was the last Tuesday's article in The New York Times by Betsy Andrews entitled "The Other Extreme: Low-Alcohol Beers" but I also got a copy of the summer …
An Australian Complains About The State Of Beer
Posted by on Sunday, July 20, 2008 in - 2 comments
This opinion piece in The Australian today speaks as much to the state of beer as the state of writing in newspapers in Australia. This extended quotation of James Jeffery's writing is remarkable both for its coarseness and its plainness about the moronic nature of the cult of globalized ice cold …
What Do You Drink When It Is Stinking Hot?
Posted by on Saturday, July 19, 2008 in - 17 comments
When I was a wee laddie back in Halifax and it was pushing 90F...or 33C...one pal inevitably declared "it's a drinker!" The undergrad group I hung out with - now doctors and lawyers and such as Waylon put it - considered drinking beer an activity in itself like, say, going to the movies, a dance …
Are These The Dog Days Of Beerdom?
Posted by on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 in - 2 comments
As you can imagine, news that MilCoo is moving to Chicago is about as interesting as the impending formation of In-Bud. Yawn. There must be something more interesting in beer going on: • A group in Toronto has formed called Cask! to agitate for more of what they want. Great news...though I am …
Session 17: Anti-Seasonal Drinking or...I Like Macros!
Posted by on Friday, July 4, 2008 in - 1 comment
This month's version of the session is, a bit confusingly to me, about "anti-seasonal drinking." As I like everything all the time what can this mean to me? There is no season of beer to me. I am a beerophile and a freewheeling omnibibe without any book of days telling what goes in the glass. But …
In Praise Of Older Beer
Posted by on Saturday, May 31, 2008 in - 2 comments
Recently I have beer drinking through the stash, getting rid of some older stock. Working on the adage that the stash is not a vault, it is important once in a while to get to the bottom of things or at least shelves and dust off the dusty to see how things are going on their way to going off …
Meta-Beer-Blogging...Or Watching Troy Watch Phin And Paul
Posted by on Sunday, April 27, 2008 in - 6 comments
BeerBistro! after all the people go to bed. • I had a great time Friday night. It was fun to meet the Southern Tier guys as well as the very dapper Liliana and Vlado, those great folk behind hosts Roland + Russell (who, by the way, I am starting to think were either two dusty Victorian-era …
Session 14: Where Are My Beer Peeps? Who Is My Beer Pal?
Posted by on Friday, April 4, 2008 in - leave a comment
I was chatting on the IM with Stonch about this subject when he was thinking about it and I had to admit that it would be a hard one for me. Like the other bloggers for this edition of The Session, a lot of people go one about beer being a social lubricant and all but that's just not the way it is …
The Post With My Howard The Duck References
Posted by on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 in - 2 comments
Howard the Duck. I have some of the original mid-70s comics that I bought when I was around 13. A masterful idea I thought. The universe we know being one of many parallel ones that float in a meta-reality side by side bumping once in a while allowing figures from one to cross to another …
Another Interesting Set Of Obserservations From Andy Crouch
Posted by on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 in - 4 comments
Beer writing. Again with the critical beer writing. Look, I am not interested in being unpleasant or just an oath bolster in relation to calling out so you needn't worry about that. But this comment over at Stan's blog about the state of critical beer writing - the 66th in the thread - posted this …
