I was not kidding Friday when I tweeted that The Session would give me a chance to post a picture of the cabin outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, that Muddy Waters left behind when he moved to Chicago. Here it is, preserved in the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale.
I might have been a bit giddy, but with good reason. You’ll recall marching orders for The 118th gathering of The Session went like this: If you could invite four people dead or alive to a beer dinner who would they be? What four beers would you serve?
I had a jolly good time watching the guest lists get posted. Now there is a matter of the roundup, and this is how I decided to do it. One invitee and one beer from each post, because you really should click through and read the posts in full.
Of Peculiar Character. Muddy Waters. True Politeness.
By the barrel/Bend Beer Librarian. Carla Jean Lauter. Thrales 18th century Russian Imperial Stout.
The Beer Nut. Director from Findlater brewery. Dublin porter.
Boak & Bailey’s Beer Blog. Arthur Millard. 1842 Pilsner Urquell.
The Tale of the Ale. Jesus of Nazareth. Wrasslers XXXX.
Deep Beer. Son. Pabst Blue Ribbon.
A Good Beer Blog. Piers the Ploughman. Double Double.
Fuggled. Umberto Eco. Three Notch’d Bitter 42.
Beervana. Joe Strummer. American IPAs.
Timely Tipple. Sir Kenelm Digby.
The Drinking Classes. Gussie Busch. Brooklyn Brewery Pilsner.
Ramblings of a Beer Runner. Mike Royko. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.
Wait Until Next Year. Kingsley Amis. Kernel Pale Ale Cascade.
I think about beer. Robert Plant. Barley Browns Pallet Jack IPA.
The Brew Site. Douglas Adams. Adam.
Brookston Beer Bulletin. John Updike. Anchor Liberty Ale.
Bryan Yaeager. George Carlin. @RefugeBrewery Grapefruit IPA. Bryan took me up on the invitation to tweet of the session, rattling off a quick 16 of them. Then he was nice enough to assemble them in a post.
And should you have missed it, mine. Brandy Clark (who since picked up two Grammy nominations). Civil Life Brown.
So the two Portland writers bent the rules and identified 13 people between them. What does this tell us?
That it is best to order a beer before asking you a question.