{"id":10849,"date":"2013-01-04T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T19:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/?p=10849"},"modified":"2013-01-04T13:50:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T19:50:16","slug":"the-session-71-a-life-lesson-from-brewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-71-a-life-lesson-from-brewing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Session #71: A life lesson from brewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/>John at Homebrew Manual made <a href=\"http:\/\/homebrewmanual.com\/brewers-and-drinkers-session-71\/\">Brewers and Drinkers<\/a> the topic for the 71st gathering of The Session today, and suggested many directions a post might go. However, I kept coming back to this: &#8220;(It) is about your relationship with beer and how it\u2019s made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(In his post, <a href=\"http:\/\/thebeernut.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/the-zymurgist-as-epicure.html\">The Beer Nut<\/a> writes, &#8220;. . . when The Session rolls round, I try and twist the theme to whatever I&#8217;m currently interested in or am already thinking of blogging about.&#8221; Perhaps that is what I am doing here, pulling that line slightly out of context.)  <\/p>\n<p>My relationship with beer and how it is made might be more complicated than yours. I don&#8217;t spend my working hours focused on that, but instead on other people&#8217;s relationships and how they make beer, or grow ingredients, or analyze results, or run a bar, or whatever. By the end of the day, introspection that includes beer has little appeal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned a fair amount about various aspects of beer, from history to science, by reading. A lesser amount by doing; that is brewing at home. And far more by listening and observing. Sometimes all those experiences come together.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve already told the story here about a late morning or early afternoon (I might have been hung over, so details get fuzzy) at Cantillon in Brussels. I was talking with Leonardo Di Vincenzo, founder of Birra Del Borgo in Italy, a brewer who has done collaborations with Cantillon, at the time. <\/p>\n<p>The conversation stopped when Jean Van Roy poured something he had hauled out of the cellar.<\/p>\n<p>Leo looked at my face when I took a sip. &#8220;Humbling,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Making beer is humbling. But so is life.<\/p>\n<p>If it turns out well, I did a good job of staying out of the way. If it doesn&#8217;t turn out well, then I did something wrong. Humbling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John at Homebrew Manual made Brewers and Drinkers the topic for the 71st gathering of The Session today, and suggested many directions a post might go. However, I kept coming back to this: &#8220;(It) is about your relationship with beer and how it\u2019s made.&#8221; (In his post, The Beer Nut writes, &#8220;. . . when &#8230; <a title=\"The Session #71: A life lesson from brewing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-71-a-life-lesson-from-brewing\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Session #71: A life lesson from brewing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[698,600],"class_list":["post-10849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session","tag-homebrewing","tag-leonardo-di-vincenzo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2OZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10849"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10856,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions\/10856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}