The Session, a.k.a. Beer Blogging Friday, was 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. It ran for 142 months between March 2007 and December 2018. (I took part on a few occasions, but only two posts…
Category: The Session
The Session (#115): The Role of Beer Books
For today’s Session, Joan Villar-i-Martà -of Blog Birraire– has asked us to reflect on the role of beer books in our lives. Probably like many homebrewers of a couple of decades ago, I got my introduction to homebrewing not via a club or another brewer, but through a book. Back in those days -late 1992-,…
The Session #109: Porter
Porter. It’s one of those beers that has come and gone in my repertoire and taste preferences, but although I seem to have settled pretty clearly on saisons, “farmhouse” ales, and sours, porter holds some strong and dear associations, still. Back to the early 1990s when –after failing at making chicha in our Santa Cruz…