This month’s Session is hosted by Oliver Gray of Literature and Libation. To refresh your recollection, the Session is a long running project where beer bloggers and writers from around the world write about a common topic on the first Friday of each month. One writer serves as host, presents a topic, and prepares a…
This month’s Session* is a momentous one, being the 100th since the Session began more than 8 years ago. It is rather impressive this collective writing effort persists in the face of so many other social media/blogging directions one can take. A testament, too, to the continued importance of recognizing a diversity of opinions available…
This month’s Session* topic doubles as my first post for 2015. If you’ve not yet read my 2014 year-end post highlighting the stories and discussion that appeared in Growler Fills during the past year, you’ll find it here. For January, the Session is hosted by Alan McLeod, long-time blogger at A Good Beer Blog and…
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…
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…
This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Jake Scholan at Hipster Brewfus. He names his topic “Beer Fight Club” though I’m renaming it “Criticism” to better reflect the theme of his entire post. Jake’s title comes from the following premise: Have you ever drank a beer that became a battle, more than an enjoyable experience?…
This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Heather Vandenengel at Beer Hobo who raises a very timely and important topic broadly called Beer Journalism. Here’s what Heather wants to know: What role do beer writers play in the culture and growth of craft beer? Are we advocates, critics, or storytellers? What stories are not getting…
This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Doug Smiley at Baltimore Bistros & Beer who asks a seemingly easy question: Why do you drink? But then Douglas provides a different context for the discussion: It’s easy to find article after article on the internet telling us that alcohol is bad. As beer bloggers it’s safe…