by Ding | Aug 4, 2026 | Beer Blogging, Beer Reviews, Ding's Beer Blog
I’ve had a recent surge in traffic on the site so I thought it might be a good idea to summarize what you’ll find at dingsbeerblog, and perhaps just as importantly, what you won’t. To find out more about me, take a look here. Who I am may not be... 
by Ding | Jun 8, 2025 | Beer Blogging, Beer Books, Beer Thoughts, Beer Writing
A few days ago the English beer writer and historian Martyn Cornell passed away. This came as an unwelcome shock to many folk in the beer world, myself included. I should add that I’m not part of the inner circle of beer writers that Martyn was part of, nor had... 
by Ding | Jan 31, 2025 | Beer Blogging, The Session
WOW! I’m so, so happy that The Session is back. My last post in the original series was #94 in December of 2014, and having hosted a couple of times too, I was sorry to see it die back in 2018. For the first month of The Session Rebooted, Alan McLeod at... 
by Ding | Jun 6, 2022 | Beer Bloggers Conference '12, Beer Blogging
I was toying with the idea of going to the 2022 Beer Bloggers Conference in Asheville in August of this year – that was until I learned that it had been canceled due to a lack of interest. My guess is that the first half of the second decade of the 00s was the... 
by Ding | May 14, 2022 | BA, Beer Blogging, beeradvocate, beeradvocate.com
On 3/31/22 the official Beeradvocate Twitter account manned by Todd Alström, blocked the newly minted dingsbeerblog Twitter account. Yep, it’s true. Quick, to the DeLorean! Todd blocked my other Twitter account years ago, but the latest action was implemented at... 
by Ding | May 26, 2021 | Beer Blogging, Beer Philosophy, Fort Wayne, North East Indiana
Here we all are. It’s been six years since my last blog post on Ding’s Beer Blog, but now I’m back. So where have I been? What happened in the period between January 2015 and today, May 26th 2021? The answer is life. Profound, right? However, nothing...