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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.<\/p>\n
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?<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Of Peculiar Character.<\/a> Muddy Waters. True Politeness.<\/p>\n By the barrel\/Bend Beer Librarian.<\/a> Carla Jean Lauter. Thrales 18th century Russian Imperial Stout. <\/p>\n The Beer Nut.<\/a> Director from Findlater brewery. Dublin porter.<\/p>\n Boak & Bailey’s Beer Blog.<\/a> Arthur Millard. 1842 Pilsner Urquell.<\/p>\n The Tale of the Ale.<\/a> Jesus of Nazareth. Wrasslers XXXX.<\/p>\n Deep Beer.<\/a> Son. Pabst Blue Ribbon. <\/p>\n A Good Beer Blog.<\/a> Piers the Ploughman. Double Double.<\/p>\n Fuggled.<\/a> Umberto Eco. Three Notch’d Bitter 42.<\/p>\n Beervana.<\/a> Joe Strummer. American IPAs.<\/p>\n Timely Tipple.<\/a> Sir Kenelm Digby.<\/p>\n The Drinking Classes.<\/a> Gussie Busch. Brooklyn Brewery Pilsner.<\/p>\n Ramblings of a Beer Runner.<\/a> Mike Royko. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.<\/p>\n Wait Until Next Year.<\/a> Kingsley Amis. Kernel Pale Ale Cascade. <\/p>\n I think about beer.<\/a> Robert Plant. Barley Browns Pallet Jack IPA.<\/p>\n The Brew Site.<\/a> Douglas Adams. Adam.<\/p>\n Brookston Beer Bulletin.<\/a> John Updike. Anchor Liberty Ale.<\/p>\n Bryan Yaeager.<\/a> George Carlin. @RefugeBrewery<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n And should you have missed it, mine.<\/a> Brandy Clark (who since picked up two Grammy nominations). Civil Life Brown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3Jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341","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=14341"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14350,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341\/revisions\/14350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}