This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Adrian Dingle at Ding’s Beer Blog. Adrian reflects a bit on how his role in the beer scene has evolved over time and asks the following questions: So, where do you see yourself? Are you simply a cog in the commercial machine if you work for a brewery, store…
This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Brian Devine and Maria Scarpello at The Roaming Pint. Their topic, rather appropriately, is an aspect of beer travel. They ask us to ponder and write about one or more of the following questions: So I ask you fellow bloggers and beer lovers, why is it important for…
In this week’s Flathead Beacon, the Flathead Valley’s weekly newspaper, staff writer Dillon Tabish takes an important look at the effects of Montana’s alcohol licensing quota system. In Liquor License Lockdown Tabish traces the dashed dreams of a restaurateur hoping to help revive downtown Kalispell, explains the difficulty in making changes to Montana’s alcohol licensing…
This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Jeremy Short of Pintwell. Jeremy raises the topic of homebrewing. I’m late to the party once again, but since I enjoy the collective writing exercise I’m going ahead and submitting a late Session Post. Here’s a summary of Jeremy’s topic: The idea of this session is how making…
This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Breandán Kearney at Belgian Smaak. He asks us to reflect upon Belgian beer, tossing out a variety of directions to go: Our blog is called ‘Belgian Smaak’. We love (and investigate, write about and drink) fantastic beers from other countries around the world, but the reason we started…
The 2014 Beer Bloggers conference is rolling along in San Diego this weekend. One of the topics is “Free Beer and Other Quandaries for Beer Writing Ethics.” While preparing for the panel presentation, it quickly became clear bloggers do not fit neatly into traditional segments of the media. For one, citizen bloggers fill many roles:…
How much influence can a label have? A lot, apparently, if you’ve followed the “craft versus crafty” debate of the past few years. Remember when we called new beers from anyone other than Big Beer microbrews? Those were the days of a few new six-packs from places unknown hitting the grocery shelves. Something unusual with…
Can you do the impossible? Not what other people think is impossible. What you think is impossible. Can you do that? Tuesday, April 15, 2014, was the one year anniversary of the bombings at the Boston Marathon, a race that is perhaps the pinnacle of every runner’s bucket list. Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs…
News came this week that Missoula Montana’s Big Sky Brewing Co. was voluntarily dismissing its trademark lawsuit against AB InBev after an agreement was reached between the parties. Big Sky filed the lawsuit over AB InBev’s alleged infringement of Big Sky’s “Hold My Beer and Watch This” trademark. Big Sky uses the slogan on its…