by Ding | Apr 22, 2023 | Beer Culture, Beer Philosophy
… in 2023, as a fifty-six year old beer drinker of 40+ years. 1. Use the term, “West Coast IPA”. Trying to get people to define what they actually mean by this, usually elicits all manner of responses that lack any kind of consensus, or cohesion or... 
by Ding | Dec 15, 2022 | Beer Culture, Beer Philosophy, Fort Wayne, Get Off My Lawn
I recently had a brief conversation with a person who is intimately acquainted with a local brewery here in Fort Wayne, IN, and whose livelihood is dependent upon selling the beer that said brewery produces. That’s a bit of an awkward way to describe this person... 
by Ding | Jun 27, 2022 | Beer Philosophy, Stone
I suppose that I should throw in my two-cents on Stone, everybody else has. To be honest, were it not for the post that I wrote in 2015 that marked the end of an era for this blog, I probably wouldn’t bother, but specifically because of that post I feel like I... 
by Ding | Apr 5, 2022 | Beer Philosophy
I think it was maybe around 12 years ago that people (briefly) started to attempt to define what the term ‘craft beer’ really meant. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this led to a lot of arguing, and no real consensus. I remember that at the time, one of the... 
by Ding | Jul 11, 2021 | Beer Philosophy
A longer post on my experience with Tavour (some of which is positive) is coming soon, but for now just a quick observation or two. Tavour is selling some excruciatingly expensive beers, many from breweries that are quite often very new, and that have no track record.... 
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...