The next edition of The Session has been announced by snekse over at Gastronomic Fight Club and it is all about local brews:
The idea here is to be as helpful as possible for visitors to your area. What is the beer/brewery/brewpub that you feel is quintessential to your city? What do the locals drink? What could a tourist drink that would make them feel like they've found something special; something that they're going to miss when they go home? Here are the rules:Commercial!?! That rules out my own beer. Damn. Does trading it for venison sausages count? One hundred an fifty miles? How far is that from my house? Montreal? No. Toronto? Probably not. Syracuse, Ottawa, Ithaca, Campbellford? Yup, yup, yup, yup. This should be interesting.
- You can pick anything commercially made within 150 miles of your house, but try to pick the brewery or brewpub closest to your house (NOTE: the average American lives within 10 miles of a craft brewery).
- You can select any beer or even a sampler if you want.
- If you select a single beer, let us know why you choose this beer (e.g. favorite,seasonal,limited edition, best seller).
- Preferably you'll shy away from beers with wide distribution outside your immediate area.
Comments
Stonch - May 9, 2007 4:55 am
"(NOTE: the average American lives within 10 miles of a craft brewery)"
Errrr... I'm not an American. Is that OK?
Alan - May 9, 2007 8:23 am
Me neither. We need to threaten start splintering schismism if this sort of thing pops up too regularly: Amero-centric statistics - BAH!
Donavan - May 9, 2007 5:31 pm
I figure that doing Milds last time was enough of a bone thrown to the folks across the pond to keep 'em happy for a while. I had to fly to London to find a Mild! Even though there are four brewpubs and one brewery in my county, I'm not within 10 miles of any of them -- of course, I don't expect anyone to shed any tears for me. I am bothered by the "commercial equals legitmate" equation but I understand that we would have very few readers if we only wrote about what our homebrew tasted like.
Stan Hieronymus - May 9, 2007 9:04 pm
Hold on, Snekse made it 150 miles.
I think it would have been neat had he just said the closest brewery to your house. Of course, the closest to mine may not have it's first beer (brewed Saturday) available yet. But it has 12 New Mexico beers on tap, and a wonderful back patio to watch the sun set on the mountains.
A good opportunity to comment if there is a local character to NM beers - and I could mention how that carries over into homebrew. Though I likely won't.
Stonch - May 10, 2007 7:33 am
I just posted last night about a relatively new brewpub in a lovely part of North London, where the grandson of an Australian regional brewer has set up under the name of his family's defunct, historic business. It's within 10 miles of my home - why didn't I keep it in my back pocket for The Session? Rats