Posts Tagged: Thinking About Beer
That Odd Tension: Wishing To Find Any Answer But Beer
Posted by on Monday, November 7, 2011 in - 2 comments
That's footnote 27 at page 134 of New Sweden in America which is exhibiting something between a quibble and a theme. It's actually in a chapter in that book, "Lenape Maize Sales to the Swedish Colonists: Cultural Stability during the Early Colonial Period" by Marshall Joseph Becker in which there …
Session 57: Of Vom And Corn, More And Waugh
Posted by on Saturday, November 5, 2011 in - 2 comments
Steve Lamond has stepped up to host this month's edition of The Session and posed the following to us all under the title "Beery Confessions: Guilty Secrets/Guilty Pleasure Beer": • I'd like to know your beery guilty secrets. Did you have a particularly embarrassing first beer (in the same way …
More Great New Words To Describe Things Beery
Posted by on Monday, October 3, 2011 in - 2 comments
One of the more revitalizing things to come out of the weekend was the opportunity to listen to to people discuss beer. Whether in a conversation struck up with partying fans in the shuttle bus or more formally in the speakers' sessions, people were describing beer. We speak of beer as a social …
Beer Rules: One Of These Things's Not Like The Others
Posted by on Monday, September 26, 2011 in - 7 comments
The implicit ethics of beer. Cultural, community, individual ethics. It is one of those things that brings me back to thinking about beer over and over. Sure, I drink the stuff but isn't it far more interesting what people think that the stuff means? Contextually, the same fluid can bean award, a …
It's The End Of Craft Beer As We Know It...
Posted by on Thursday, September 22, 2011 in - 22 comments
It's been an odd patch. R.E.M. just broke up well after anyone noticed they were actually still a band. Jeff ticked me off but we're back stronger than ever. I ticked off Tandleman and... well, I admitted my feelings. Change. Flux. Conflict. The discussions were all in the context of grapplings …
I Drink My Beer At Home Where I Don't Have To Tip
Posted by on Monday, September 12, 2011 in - 18 comments
The Britons are about to tip the scale. Not break a camel's back with a straw. And not move past a tipping point where everything immediately flops and flows from here to there. Just one more little incremental shift that makes assumptions more of the "ass, you and me" sort: • Back in the 1970s …
Does Brewing History Really Matter To You?
Posted by on Thursday, September 8, 2011 in - 23 comments
There is an excellent post over at Des de Moor's blog this morning entitled "Brewing’s Disputed Histories" in which he discusses an accepted inaccuracy about a point in the history of the Belgian brewers Lindemans around 200 years ago. He goes on to ask some questions including this one …
Don't Read Me. Read Stan. Stan Has It Going All Over.
Posted by on Thursday, September 1, 2011 in - 13 comments
Stan. • Later: OK, there were 39 comments over there to the top of the fourth inning, including lots by me - but let's review Stan's five questions to see if I am still happy with the answers: • Stan: Is Alan serious? • Answer: I am serious in the singular. People talk of “the craft beer …
So Do Non-Political Beer Boundaries Make Sense?
Posted by on Sunday, August 28, 2011 in - 8 comments
So, does this idea make sense? Does it make more sense to describe regions of good beer by ignoring political boundaries? If you think about it, there is no real reason to relate saison to France rather than Belgium just because of the Treaty of London of 1839 and other non-beery factors …
Which Hemishpere Is The Best Beer Hemisphere?
Posted by on Saturday, August 27, 2011 in - 4 comments
After an evening of craft beer disappointment - or perhaps just infanticide - I was wonder what is going wrong with me lately. I don't really crave another new saison even if some are surprisingly good. I would maybe feel different if I could ever get up to this sort of thing. • Arguments don't …
