Beer for Chicks has posted the round up for Session #35: New Beer’s Resolutions, a combination of 2009 highlights, occasional lowlights and actual resolutions . . . and already it is time to think about Session #36 on Feb. 5.
Because host Tom Cizauskas expects us to take it seriously. The topic: Cask-conditioned ale.
Above all, let’s have perspective folks, perspective! Cask-conditioned ale is not a matter of life and death; it’s much more.
He means it. There will be no showing up for class Feb. 5 and telling the teacher you couldn’t come up with an idea related to the topic because he’s supplied a long list of potential topics: make it about lifestyle, culture, ale vs. lager, saison (really!). . . “Make it a sad story. Make it a love story.”
Did I mention my first beer of 2010 was cask-conditioned Big Sky IPA Papago Brewing in Scottsdale? If you’d told me in 1996 at the first Real Ale Festival in Chicago that 13-plus years later I’d be sitting in a bar in Arizona drinking a cask-conditioned beer from Montana (you might know Big Sky Brewing better for Moose Drool) I’d have suggested that chances were better somebody would invent something called Facebook, where festival cellarmaster Steve Hamburg and I would be friends.
This is going to be fun.
Hey Stan,
Been reading Brew Like a Monk again and really enjoying it! Thanks! 🙂
I plugged you in my blog so you might be getting a tidal wave of referral traffic… jk 😉
http://www.catholicbeer.com/2010/01/january-challenge.html
See you around the blogosphere!
Cheers,
joel.
Thanks for the plug, Joel. I admire you plan to avoid the screen in January. We’ll have the football game on tonight, but a distraction while I do some prep for weekend brewing.