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Your dream beer festival?<\/p>\nYour dream beer festival?<\/p>\n
Free admission? Nothing but 100-point rarities you’ve never tasted before? Only local beers? Only brewers pouring? Only eight-ounce servings (or 1 or 4 or 16)? No lines? <\/p>\n
Host Brian Yaeger has asked us to write about designing \u201cyour dream festival\u201d<\/a> for the 130th gathering of The Session, providing a list of criteria to consider (size, style, location, you get the idea). And he suggests that we conclude \u201cwith a note about why you can see trying to make this fantasy fest a reality or why you\u2019ll never advance this idea of yours beyond the Session post!\u201d<\/p>\n The thought occurs to me that if you dream big you should find somebody else to take charge of execution. Or to phrase that idea as a confession: Part of what makes it a dream beer festival is that somebody else organizes it. <\/p>\n Ron Pattinson has the right idea. He assembled a collection of historic lager recipes he\u2019d like breweries to make and serve at a festival. He found somebody — Florian Kuplent, diploma brewmaster and co-founder of Urban Chestnut Brewing in St. Louis — who thinks this is a good idea. UCBC has recruited breweries from across the country to make beers from these recipes. Planning is ongoing, but 20 to 25 lagers will be poured This is a better festival than I could have dreamed up. It\u2019s the one I am most looking forward to in 2018; closely followed by Fonta Flora Brewery\u2019s State of Origin Festival<\/a> in June in North Carolina (one I\u2019ve wanted to get to the last couple of years, but didn\u2019t fit into the schedule). The one I wish I could have attended this past year would have been the Norsk Korn\u00f8l Festival<\/a> in Norway.<\/p>\n That these began as somebody else’s dream is fine with me. I prefer writing about other people’s dreams to revealing my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Your dream beer festival? Free admission? Nothing but 100-point rarities you’ve never tasted before? Only local beers? Only brewers pouring? Only eight-ounce servings (or 1 or 4 or 16)? No lines? Host Brian Yaeger has asked us to write about designing \u201cyour dream festival\u201d for the 130th gathering of The Session, providing a list of … 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-14895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3Sf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895","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=14895"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14921,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895\/revisions\/14921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}March 3<\/del> April 22 at the brewery\u2019s Grove location. Ron Pattinson will be there, and so will I.<\/p>\n