This month’s Session is hosted by Steve Lamond at Beer’s I’ve Known. The topic is “beery guilty secrets.”
I am a man without a beer epiphany. At least one of the aha sort.
I don’t remember the what, when or where of my first beer. Or my first “better” beer. Or my first “craft” beer.
That’s my beer confession. I don’t feel guilty about this. Just a little embarrassed. It seems that since I’ve been around to report on much of what has happened within niche beer the last 20 years that I should recall that first xxxxxx beer in xxxxxx bar in xxxxxx city.
Instead I realize I come from a different time (before New Albion Brewing; or before CAMRA) and a different place (central Illinois). The beer options changed gradually. The quality of imported (mostly German) beer in the bottle was all over the map, but on draft it was definitely a step up from Stroh’s at $11.15 a case (inflation adjusted) and Michelob (on draft, which I only drank if somebody else was buying). And some year along the away I remembered that Sierra Nevada Celebration tasted pretty good last year and was back again.
That’s why, for me, the guilty pleasure will still be the next beer I drink.