November 15, 2011
The Session #58 Announced
And just when I was back to getting into the Session a transition in jobs left me without much time to think about this past month’s topic. Hopefully, that won’t be the case with December’s Session: A Dickens of a topic for December 2011 The idea for me was based loosely around the visits of [...]
September 8, 2011
Session #56 Announced
It felt good to get back into the flow of The Session and get involved with this month’s topic last week. Hopefully, that will be the momentum I need to keep up with the monthly Beer Bloggers’ writing event. October’s Session topic has been announced by The Tale of the Ale — “Thanks to the [...]
September 2, 2011
Session #55: Label, Coaster and Cap Art
Running The Barley Blog is a hobby — a tasty, tasty hobby. The full time job has me fully immersed in Web design and development. As much as I enjoy coding around Internet Explorer’s faults, it’s the design aspect of my job where my heart lies. So, it’s fairly understandable that I am drawn to [...]
August 25, 2011
Session #55 Announced
It’s no secret that my participation in The Session — the monthly beer bloggers’ opportunity to get together and write from their own unique perspective on a single topic — has been, how shall I say it… lacking. Call me lazy, or just plain uninterested in some of the topics as of late, but this [...]
May 10, 2011
Session #52 Announced
The 52nd running of The Session has been announced, and it takes a bit of a departure from the previous writing assignments. Hosted by Brian Stechschulte, we’ve all been tasked with not discussing a specific beer or style, but instead “…the material that plays a supporting role. Bottles, coasters, cans, labels, ads, tap handles, church [...]
March 16, 2011
Session 50 Announced
Holy crap! The Session hits 50 — FIFTY! — next month and Alan at A Good Beer Blog has selected the topic of “How Do They Make Me Buy The Beer?” For more on next month’s topic: Buying beer. I mean takeaway. From the shelf to you glass. What rules are dumb? Who gives the [...]
March 4, 2011
The Session #49: Regular Beer
Had you asked me what my go to beer — you know, that beer that’s always in the fridge as your standard, daily drinker — was a few years back, I’d have answered with something smart-assed like, “Sam Adams is my Miller Lite.” Now, that’s not to put down the cases of tasty lager from [...]
February 8, 2011
The Session #49 Announced
Four years after co-founding the monthly beer blogging event known simply as The Session, Stan is back with a topic that appropriately feels, at least for myself, like a reset of sorts. I’ve been lacking in my involvement with The Session for several months now, but this seems like the ideal time to restart my [...]
November 5, 2010
The Session #45: Wheat Beer
When Session #45 was first announced, I knew exactly which beer I wanted to crack open for the occasion. I’ve only had this 2009 vintage bottle of G. Schneider & Sohn’s Aventinus Eisbock for about six or seven months, but I know that this is definitely the beer for today. (On a side note, I [...]
October 6, 2010
Session #45 Announced
I’ve been rather slack in my participation with The Session. It’s been way too long since I’ve joined in the monthly beer blogger’s event. With #45 (hosted by BeerTaster.ca), there’s a shift to “…get back closer to the roots of the Session and pick a topic which was simple and yet gives a wide range [...]
