{"id":15372,"date":"2018-11-10T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=15372"},"modified":"2018-11-10T10:39:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T16:39:32","slug":"the-session-141-long-live-beer-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-141-long-live-beer-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"The Session #141: Long live beer blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe topic for The Session #141 is \u201cThe Future of Beer Blogging.\u201d<\/a> Because it comes with an announcement that it is time — past time, really — to recognize The Session has run its course (and maybe because when I tweeted a link to Jay Brooks\u2019 post I used the words \u201csunset\u201d – my bad) discussion popped up about if the demise of The Session is another sign that beer blogging is dead.<\/p>\n

Not true.<\/p>\n

My family and I are in a time zone far, far west of most of you and there are rain forests and crashing waves to see, so I will be brief. Those of us who decided to call it The Session when it began in 2007 never claimed it was a stammtisch<\/em>. It was of the digital world. We didn\u2019t all sit down together, beers in hand, for several rounds. If a member went missing for a gathering or two we didn\u2019t worry about her or his health. We didn\u2019t bitch about our kids or the neighbor\u2019s dog. <\/p>\n

It served multiple purposes, I suppose, but one reason I suggested it at the outset was to expand the number of blogs that readers were paying attention to. One of the six regular visitors to Appellation Beer might drop in an see what was being written at Beer Haiku Daily (the host of the eighth session, and, like many early hosts, long gone). This might also be called listening to more voices<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps The Session could still serve that purpose, but for several years it has not.<\/p>\n

So, to the \u201cfuture of beer blogging.\u201d I first typed, \u201cI don\u2019t care.\u201d In fact, I do care, but my interest is the story. The delivery vehicle is just that. Have you ever listened to the town crier on a foggy morning in Lyme Regis? Great form of communication. Not so much today. Beer blogging will remain one way<\/em> to engage readers\/listeners\/viewers going forward. As a fan of the written word, for now my preferred way. I\u2019m excited that Jonathan Surratt has decided to drag RSBS (means nothing to you, right?) from the aughts into the teens and offer us ReadBeer<\/a>. Call it diversity in beer storytelling.<\/p>\n

And buy that man a cheeseburger.<\/p>\n

What lives in the archives (thanks, Jay Brooks) of The Session is pretty terrific. Back in April of 2014 the topic was beer journalism<\/a>. That\u2019s what we should be talking about, and consider blogging as one outlet. Things about blogging have changed since 2007, but not that<\/em> much. Blogs will continue to go and come. Mark Johnson nicely traced the life cycle<\/a> a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

As to the future of Appellation Beer? Martyn Cornell put it better than I after the North American Guild of Beer Writers gave me what might be called a \u201clifetime achievement\u201d<\/a> award. Things have been quieter than quiet here, but I\u2019ve been busy writing stories that have appeared or will appear elsewhere and on research for a couple of book projects. When I determine what regular posting means here then that will resume, and the about<\/em> page will reflect the schedule.<\/p>\n

I will likely miss The Session more than you. I didn\u2019t make all of the 140 that came before this one, but more than most, including No. 140. How many were there for that one?<\/a> What should that tell us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The topic for The Session #141 is \u201cThe Future of Beer Blogging.\u201d Because it comes with an announcement that it is time — past time, really — to recognize The Session has run its course (and maybe because when I tweeted a link to Jay Brooks\u2019 post I used the words \u201csunset\u201d – my bad) … 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-15372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3ZW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15372","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=15372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15379,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15372\/revisions\/15379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}