entries filed under beer events

Sometimes people have events, fests and stuff featuring beers.

 

The Session is a monthly beer blogging topic. This month’s session is about the beer moment.

A beer moment? Why do I want to get so romantic with this phrase? I want to dip my pen into a sappy image of imperial stouts and earthy Trappist ales. See here the big and the bold beer. The craft beer. The, oh god this sounds so silly, artisan brewer stirring a wooden paddle through a thick resting mash. Yes, these are all fine things that define ...

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This year’s Great American Beer Festival was my seventh, which means I’ve been going long enough to start feeling nostalgic. And this year, more than before, made me feel particularly nostalgic; Perhaps it was the 1982 GABF Pavilion, or watching as some breweries grow while other seemingly  diminish, or was it the massive popularity of the whole thing? Either way, GABF seems bigger, bigger, and… wait there’s more than 450 breweries at this thing now? Damn that’s a lot of beer ...

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the categories

| ale fail

Beer isn't always good.

| beer events

Sometimes people have events, fests and stuff featuring beers.

| drinking holes

Looking for a place to drink a beer? Well here's a few places to go (and a few to skip).

| et cetera

Shit, I don't know where to file this entry. I'll just put it here.

| gadget

Buy me this.

| history

Yeah, a bunch of stuff happened the day before yesterday, yesterday.

| homebrew

The best beer is the beer you make.

| not beer

Seriously. You think I only want to write about beer?

| pint fight

What happens when two or more beers get together and face a fierce battle of mortal combat? Well that's what PintFights is all about.

| pintwell

Sometimes we talk about ourselves and worse sometimes we talk to ourselves (but mostly when it's quiet and no one is around). 

| snobbery

This is where we exhibit and/or shame the snobification of beer.