Detritus, according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, is "miscellaneous remnants : odds and ends". While the number and quality of our beer choices has certainly improved over the recent decade, have you been paying any attention to the rest of the package?
Read moreReminder - The Session #101
The Session #101 - July 2015
This is a reminder, that The Session, a.k.a. Beer Blogging Friday, July 2015 muses are due for posting the first Friday of the month, which in this case is July 3.
I will be on Holiday for the next week or so, posting as I can through July 13. And since it wasn't decided Deep Beer would be hosting this months theme till late, I will be VERY lenient on accepting late blog posts.
I hope you are enjoying the topic, I know I am, and am anxiously awaiting reading your thoughts on Bottles, Caps and Other Beer Detritus. Be well!
Wachusett Brewing
Wachusett Brewing Co, Westminster, MA
It was a great time, great beers and very good people that were willing to "stay just a little bit longer" to allow us to drink their beer and give us tour of the place.
Read moreNo Beer For You
When the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.
Read moreAnnouncement - The Session #101 - Bottles, Caps and Other Beer Detritus
The Session #101 - July 2015
The Session, a.k.a. Beer Blogging Friday, is an opportunity once a month for beer bloggers from around the world to get together and write from their own unique perspective on a single topic. Each month, a different beer blogger hosts the Session, chooses a topic and creates a round-up listing all of the participants, along with a short pithy critique of each entry. You can find more information on The Session on Brookston Beer Bulletin.
Since first discovering The Session, I knew one day I wanted to host a monthly edition. There are many great creative people involved in the beer industry: the brewers designing and creating the stuff of our attention, marketers bringing the product to market, graphic artists making the products attractive and informative and writers who tell the story of beer. The list goes on. And thus, many great products, that may or may not get your attention. The focus is on the liquid inside the bottle, can or keg, and rightly so. What about all the other products necessary to bring that beer to you? What about the things that are necessary but are easily overlooked and discarded. This months theme is, "Bottles, Caps and Other Beer Detritus".
Detritus, according to one definition in the Merriam Webster Dictionary is "miscellaneous remnants : odds and ends". While the number and quality of our beer choices has certainly improved over the recent decade, have you paid any attention to the rest of the package. Those things we normally glance over and throw away when we have poured and finished our beer. These are sometimes works of art in themselves. Bottle caps, labels, six-pack holders, even the curvature of the bottle. For this month's The Session theme, I'm asking contributors to share their thoughts on these things, the tangential items to our obsession. Do you have any special fetish with bottle caps, know of someone that is doing creative things with packaging, have a beer bottle or coaster collection.
Please post your contributions here by Friday, July 3, 2015. I will then post a roundup of all your entries.
Beer on the Road: Mass Edition
Gardner Ale House
While on business in Westminster, Massachusetts I had a chance to visit the Gardener Alehouse, in Gardner Massachusetts. Gardener is an old furniture town that has, let's say, lost its edge. Apparently, some years ago Gardner was know as Chair City and the Furniture Hub of New England.
Read moreResurrection of a Beer Style
Popular in the late 1800s, the last oatmeal stout was brewed before the First World War until Samuel Smith reintroduced this style in 1980.
Read moreBottles or Cans?
"Bottles or Cans?" As with many re-examined aspects of the beer culture, the bottles or cans question itself is evolving.
Read moreThe Beer in Our Backyard
The Session, a.k.a. Beer Blogging Friday, is an opportunity once a month for beer bloggers from around the world to get together and write from their own unique perspective on a single topic. Each month, a different beer blogger hosts the Session, chooses a topic and creates a round-up listing all of the participants, along with a short pithy critique of each entry.
Read moreBeer Punt
I want to invent a new beer term, "beer punt". This is what happens when you're in a restaurant (Or any establishment) and realize that the beer selections are so poor that you decide a glass of wine is the better option.
Read moreBeer Festivals: A Three Part Harmony
So, the question has been asked for The Session #96, do beer festivals serve as a geek gatherings or for beer dissemination?
Read moreBeer Restuarant Nirvana
Are you the kind of person that rates a restaurant by how it handles its beer? I am, at least I will always make that observation.
Read moreStone's Smoked Porter
So how do you decide what beer to bring home with you? The label? The beer style you keep going back to? The brewery? Do you simply trust that a brewery is going to do the right thing with a beer?
Read moreGreen Flash Hop Head Red Reviewed
The Hop Head Red comes from Green Flash Brewing of San Diego CA. BeerAdvocate lists its style as an amber ale but according to the label and the ABV it reads more like a big American India Pale Ale.
Read morePour Hard, Admire & Enjoy
Sawtooth Ale Nitro by Left Hand Brewing is an interesting twist on a traditional beer. Here are four reasons you'll love this beer and one why you may not.
Read moreLagunitas Night Time Ale
I found this a good beer that I think just by the name, you have to sip at night. Right?
Read moreMaine Weez Poured
Weez is dedicated to the brewers cat (thus the whiskers on the label) of the same name. I'm not a cat person but I wouldn't let that get in my way of a good beer.
Read moreSouthern Tier Goat Boy
The style from Einbeck was later adopted by Munich brewers in the 17th century and adapted to the new lager style of brewing. Due to their Bavarian accent, citizens of Munich pronounced "Einbeck" as "ein Bock" ("a billy goat"), and thus the beer became known as "bock". To this day, as a visual pun, a goat often appears on bock labels.
Read moreLagunitas Undercover Investigation
Lagunitas is one those brewers you know that you can trust to produce a great beer. This a beer that has been around for awhile but has that strange name. There must be a story here.
Read moreBeer - a four course meal
One beer as an adventure, one as an appetizer, one that would pair well with my meal, and one for dessert. Walla, I've turned a small plate of ahi tuna into an experience - well in my mind it was.
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