Intellectual Ferment of a Different Kind
Imbibing Culture
In this, the first of many guest posts to come on A Tempest in a Tankard, I’m extremely happy to welcome wine scholar, Kevin D. Goldberg, a friend and fellow German history colleague who has researched and written extensively on the nineteenth-century German wine trade. …
Last night I finally got around to brewing my chocolate peanut porter. With the cocoa nibs and peanuts I’ll add to the fermenter, the beer is no poster child for the German Reinheitsgebot (Purity Law), but at least I got the peanuts from the local …
*The inspiration for this piece comes from early November’s The Session topic. Here’s a scenario that was making the rounds in many a cultural sensitivity workshop about a decade ago. It goes something like this: A doctor was driving home early one evening and came …
The early days of September 2013 are days that will not go down in infamy in many places. But in a small corner of the interwebs, the September installment of “The Session: Beer Blogging Friday” generated no small quantum of sound and fury. These sessions …