{"id":14453,"date":"2017-02-03T09:52:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T15:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=14453"},"modified":"2017-02-03T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T15:52:30","slug":"the-session-120-there-will-be-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-120-there-will-be-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Session #120: There will be brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/>So are we talking #964B00 or #8B4513?<\/p>\n<p>In his post announcing the topic for the final episode of The Session&#8217;s 10th season would be &#8220;brown beer,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/thefatalglassofbeer.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/01\/announcing-session-120-brown-beer.html\">host Joe Tindall wrote<\/a>, &#8220;to refer to a traditional bitter as &#8216;brown&#8217; seems to suggest it belongs to a bygone corduroy-trousered era.&#8221; An American would not write that. The last time <em>traditional*<\/em> brown bitter beers roamed these parts the Republicans were the party championing civil rights. In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed The Session has become more international than when it began 10 years ago, and contributions from across the Atlantic a) give us a different perspective and b) often arrive along with the sun here.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A few highlights:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In &#8220;discourse of modern beer &#8216;Brown&#8217; has become a <a href=\"https:\/\/barrelagedleeds.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/03\/the-session-120-brown-beer\/\">inexplicably maligned descriptor.<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Is there someone else in the room with you right now? Ask them to tell you, without over-thinking, <a href=\"http:\/\/boakandbailey.com\/2017\/02\/in-which-we-fall-into-a-brown-study\/\">what colour beer is<\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Andreas Krennmair provides a recipe for a Bavarian dunkel beer, but allows that &#8220;the <a href=\"http:\/\/dafteejit.com\/2017\/02\/bavarian-brown-beer\/\">resulting beer may not be cool,<\/a> neither in the hip beer scene nor in the conservative Bavarian beer culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/images\/20170203-session.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"309\" alt=\"Best of show table Champion of the Pint\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised nobody has asked &#8220;What can brown do for you?&#8221; but that <del>is<\/del> was mostly an American thing and the day here is young. I might not be thinking about this in the right way. I understand the definition of &#8220;brown ale&#8221; and the variants, but I don&#8217;t think &#8220;I&#8217;ll have a brown beer&#8221; when I am considering what to drink next. Whatever brown brings to a beer is part of a matrix.<\/p>\n<p>So I quite like one thing what Bottled Roger wrote: &#8220;The color brown is a <a href=\"https:\/\/bottledrogersbeers.com\/2017\/02\/02\/this-was-about-wagonwheel-a-brown-ale\/\">study in contrast<\/a>. It is the hue and tincture of earth and soil, wood and bark, hair and flesh.&#8221; Those can be good things in beer.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>* Yes, there were beers that were brown and bitter, but not what the British would call a proper bitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So are we talking #964B00 or #8B4513? In his post announcing the topic for the final episode of The Session&#8217;s 10th season would be &#8220;brown beer,&#8221; host Joe Tindall wrote, &#8220;to refer to a traditional bitter as &#8216;brown&#8217; seems to suggest it belongs to a bygone corduroy-trousered era.&#8221; An American would not write that. 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