The Session No. 71: Brewers and Drinkers

This month’s Session* topic is hosted by John at Homebrew Manual. He raises the topic of brewers and drinkers and writes: Brewers and Drinkers is about your relationship with beer and how it’s made. Do you brew? If so why? If not, why not? How does that affect your enjoyment of drinking beer? Here are some…

The Session No. 70: The Hype

This month’s Session* topic is hosted by David J. Bascombe at Good Morning. A blog about beer, mostly. He raises the topic of beer hype and writes: Back in the summer, I shared a bottle of Westvleteren 12 with my brother and my father. Whilst I was aware of it’s reputation as “best beer in…

The Session No. 69: The Perfect Beer World

This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Jorge at the Brew Beer and Drink It blog who raises the topic of The Perfect Beer World.  Jorge asks: What is something you would like to see change… something that will take us closer to the Perfect Beer World? The topic is wide open… even if you…

The Session No. 68: Novelty Beers

This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Tiffany Adamowski at 99 Pours who, along with her husband, owns a bottle shop in Federal Way, WA.  She’s a fellow beer bloggers conference attendee and her topic is Novelty Beers.  Tiffany asks: What novelty beer comes to mind when you think: Is this beer just too strange…

The Session No. 67: How Many Breweries?

This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Derrick at Ramblings of a Beer Runner who begins with the following statistics: There’s been much cheering and fanfare reverberating throughout the brewing community about the latest brewery numbers recently released from the Brewer’s Association, who counted exactly 2,126 breweries in the United States.  To put that into context, you have to go way back to…

The Session No. 51: The Great Online Beer & Cheese-Off

For much longer than I’ve been writing Growler Fills, I’ve tuned into The Session, a collective effort of beer bloggers around the world to write on a common topic once each month.  The idea originated with Stan Hieronymus and his long running, excellent blog Appellation Beer and is co-pioneered by Jay Brooks, beer author and…