{"id":12107,"date":"2014-02-07T04:28:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T10:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=12107"},"modified":"2014-02-07T06:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T12:39:00","slug":"the-session-84-drink-with-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-84-drink-with-your-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Session #84: Drink with your eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The plan for the 84th gathering of The Session<\/a> goes like this: you cannot review the beer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Huh? Thank goodness, host Oliver Gray provides further guidance, “Write a short story that incorporates the name, an essay based on an experience you had drinking it, or a silly set of pastoral sonnets expressing your undying love for a certain beer. If you don\u2019t feel like writing, that\u2019s fine; plug into your inner Springsteen and play us a song, or throw your budding Van Gogh against the canvas and paint us a bubbly masterpiece.” <\/p>\n

Those things will not be happening here. Creating a bit of music might or might not be in my comfort zone, but remember Chekov in Wrath of Kahn? Listening to that, not in your comfort zone. <\/p>\n

Let’s try this instead. A beer, a photo that “reviews” it, a word or three to provide a bit of context. It would be better, let’s be honest, if I drank the beer and it inspired me to go shoot a particular photo. Sorry, pulling photos from the archives will have to do. And, again to be honest, at some level we expect beer reviews to give a reader a clue about what flavors, and perhaps other experiences, to expect. Not necessarily happening here. I won’t pretend that what follows means anything to anybody but me.<\/p>\n

ALLAGASH CONFLUENCE<\/strong>
\n\"AllagashConnections<\/em>
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\nCROOKED STEVE HOP SAVANT<\/strong>
\n\"CrookedMerry Christmas y’all<\/em>
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\nURBAN CHESTNUT STAMMTISCH<\/strong>
\n\"UrbanDefined<\/em>
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\nBOULEVARD TANK 7<\/strong>
\n\"BoulevardSnap beans<\/em>
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\nPERENNIAL ARTISAN ALES ABRAXAS<\/strong>
\n\"PerennialLiterally<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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