I think I am going to have a bit of a hard time writing something for the next edition of The Session as Stonch has announced that it has to be about your favorite beer person:
On Friday 4th April, the date of the next Session, I'd like you to write about people. Choose someone you know personally. That person might be a brewer, a publican, someone who sups at your local, or maybe just a friend who is passionate about beer. Let's read some pen portraits of your companions on the path to fermented enlightenment.Personally? That's a bit of a challenge. Am I a solitary boozer? Not really. A stand-apart snob? I don't think so. But I have to be realistic about my relationship to beer, how it came to be and how I am pretty much the only real beer fan that I have really spend any time with. Sad? I suppose - but I think it is natural what with me living two hours form the nearest microbrewery, being an ex-pat from somewhere else where all my beer pals still live and being a Dad (not to mention a foster parent) who, like most guys he knows, has other demands that have priority over a night at the pub.
So I am going to have to think about it. Hey - are you my favorite beer guy? Let me know.
Comments
Stan Hieronymus - March 17, 2008 10:23 pm
Does this mean we should set up some sort of "Buy Alan a Beer Pal fund?"
PayPal for BeerPal?
Alan - March 18, 2008 8:55 am
Maybe there needs to be a fund to populates the 200 km radius around me with more beer. More of an infrastructure program.
Stonch - March 18, 2008 11:36 am
Come, now, Alan, there's beer everywhere! People homebrew in Riyadh!
I've noticed someone else has commented this is "going to be a tough one". I must say I'm taken aback!
Adam @ Beer Bits 2 - March 18, 2008 11:54 am
I guess the "someone you know personally" would be the kicker here. Otherwise you could probably include any of your virtual friends out here in the "interweb" ;-)
I'd probably choose the guy who introduced me to homebrewing, Frank.
Stonch - March 18, 2008 12:34 pm
The bit about knowing someone personally was intentionally restrictive - I think we want to learn about the subject from someone that knows them, while finding out what makes the writer tick too...
Beer's nothing if it isn't social. I wouldn't bother with it otherwise.
Alan - March 18, 2008 2:13 pm
Only a good topic gets people really thinking, Stonch.
Paul - March 19, 2008 10:33 am
Beer is best when it's with other people. How about an imaginary friend Alan?