I need to make up for the fact that I missed National Drunk Blogging day last year.
There’s a slew of beer and other drink blogs out there, but most notable at the moment is Seen Through a Glass “Lew Bryson’s beer and whiskey blog: tasting notes, quick rants and raves, Philly area (and beyond) beer news, whiskey news, and all dat.”
Lew has an important project – The session beer project. For those of you unfamiliar with session beers, it’s best defined by defunct Schaefer beer’s jingle: “the beer to have when you’re having more than one”. In today’s trend toward extreme beer (see this article – Big beers pack a big punch for beers that push the limit), we often overlook good beer that was brewed to be drunk, not sniffed, swirled, and sipped from a snifter. We sometimes forget how lucky we are that most bars have fresh, distinctive, flavorful beer on tap, that haven’t been brought in from Milwaukee or St. Louis by way of supertanker.
A couple of local Beer blogs:
Chicagoland Beer Reviews
Flossmoor Beer Blog “The best place to find updates about beers and events happening at Flossmoor Station”
Lots more beer blogs at really simple BEER syndication
And it just wouldn’t be a Web 2.0 without a beer social networking site – Coastr. It’s even got a decent beer bar mapping tool.