by Ding | Jan 3, 2015 | Beer Culture, Beer Philosophy, Dogfish Head, Get Off My Lawn, Stone
Before you read this please know that I’m not really sure what I am trying to convey here, so I think this post is more likely to turn out to be a stream of consciousness rather than anything particularly coherent – apologies in advance. Yesterday I was at...
by Ding | Dec 6, 2014 | Beer Blogging, Beer Philosophy, Beer Sessions, Beer Thoughts, Get Off My Lawn
As usual with The Session, some posts are more interesting than others. Here’s the round-up for #94 in no particular order. Miguel gives us this post at Amante De La Buena Cerveza. Unfortunately I don’t speak a word of Spanish, so I literally have no idea...
by Ding | Jan 25, 2014 | Beer Culture, Beer Philosophy, Cask Ale, Get Off My Lawn
So here I am, on the morning of another Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting (#ACAT), but this time I am not getting ready to head to the event later in the day. The #ACAT of 2014 will be the first one that I have not attended since the inaugural gathering. The reasons for my...
by Ding | Jan 21, 2014 | Beer Culture, Beer Philosophy, Beer Thoughts, Get Off My Lawn
Last night I got into a bit of a clumsy discussion on Twitter that ended very unsatisfactorily for me. Frankly it was my own fault, and I wanted to clear up my thoughts a little. In a nutshell, I responded to this article in the NYT by sending the Tweet below to...
by Ding | Dec 22, 2013 | Beer Thoughts, Get Off My Lawn, Growler Stores
Here I go again with my annual Christmas wish list. The things I want Santa to deliver to my beer world. It goes without saying (I think), that the old chestnuts of me wanting the abuse of cask beer via the addition of crap (i.e., treating a cask as a Randall), and...
by Ding | Dec 18, 2013 | Beer Blogging, Beer Philosophy, Beer Thoughts, Get Off My Lawn
Last Wednesday I received an email from Chris Staten. Chris is an editor at Draft magazine. He asked me to respond to a few, simple questions about my public beer persona for an article that he was putting together. I didn’t think much about it, was happy to...
