Posts Tagged: Thinking About Beer
Lew Reviews Why We Drink And I Wonder If I Agree
Posted by on Thursday, January 1, 2009 in - 10 comments
New Year's Day is a very good day to think about this. Many have that shaggy, slightly pained outlook on the day from a bit (or more than a bit) of the merry, merry clinky-drinky last night. And why not? It is the western world's mass culture day for celebration - a holiday that really only …
Scientific Discovery Leave Us Asking Same Questions
Posted by on Saturday, December 27, 2008 in - 3 comments
I recall a George Carlin news item joke that I may have posted somewhere here somewhere before: "scientists have discovered that saliva causes cancer but, fortunately, only when taken over a long period of time in small amounts." That is the sort of reaction I had when I read today's beer and …
Silly Headline: "Beer Adds New Excitement..."
Posted by on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 in - leave a comment
"...to the Traditional Thanksgiving Feast"?? Silly headlines. I know about these things. I am related to a silly headline writer. And I actually went to a school with a branch dedicated to silly headline writing and the other journalistic arts. You have to be on your toes about these things … read more »
Session 21: What's My Favorite? What Does That Mean?
Posted by on Friday, November 7, 2008 in - leave a comment
Your son or your daughter? An earthy fresh dug carrot rubbed off almost clean on your pant leg or an apple just picked off the bough skin snapping at the first gushing bite? Your long dead cat from when you were ten or your long dead cat from when you were six? The trip to the family cottage last …
Session 21 Announced: What's Your Favorite Flavour?
Posted by on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 in - 7 comments
I think that's it...no, it's this: what is your favorite beer and why? While I did like the music non-beer theme, I'd prefer something more of a beer theme for The Session. All these non-themes that use beer as illustration, like last month's about beer and memories, are really treating beer as a …
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 … read more »
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 …
