{"id":4012,"date":"2010-05-11T15:36:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T21:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2010-05-11T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T21:36:41","slug":"session-39-recapped-session-40-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-39-recapped-session-40-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Session #39 recapped, Session #40 announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Mario Rubio has recapped <a href=\"http:\/\/mariorubio.hoppress.com\/2010\/05\/10\/the-session-39-roundup\/\">The Session #39: Collaboration<\/a>, and Erik Myers has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topfermented.com\/2010\/05\/07\/announcing-session-40\/\">issued marching orders<\/a> for #40 on June 4: <strong>Session Beer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are a thousand ways to approach this.<\/p>\n<p>What is your definition of a session beer? Is it, as Dr. Lewis suggested at the Craft Brewers Conference this year, \u201ca pint of British wallop\u201d or is your idea of a session beer a crisp Eastern European lager, a light smoky porter, a dry witbier, or even a dry Flemish sour?<\/p>\n<p>Is it merely enough for a beer to be low alcohol to be considered a session beer, or is there some other ineffable quality that a beer must hold in order to merit the term? And if so, what is that quality? Is it \u201cdrinkability\u201d? Or something else?<\/p>\n<p>What about the place of session beer in the craft beer industry? Does session beer risk being washed away in the deluge of extreme beers, special releases, and country-wide collaborations? Or is it the future of the industry, the inevitable palate-saving backlash against a shelf full of Imperial Imperials?<\/p>\n<p>What are some of your favorite session beers? When and where do you drink them? If you\u2019d like, drink one and review it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For additional preparation visit Lew Bryson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sessionbeerproject.blogspot.com\/\">Session Beer Project.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Rubio has recapped The Session #39: Collaboration, and Erik Myers has issued marching orders for #40 on June 4: Session Beer. There are a thousand ways to approach this. What is your definition of a session beer? Is it, as Dr. Lewis suggested at the Craft Brewers Conference this year, \u201ca pint of British &#8230; <a title=\"Session #39 recapped, Session #40 announced\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-39-recapped-session-40-announced\/\" aria-label=\"More on Session #39 recapped, Session #40 announced\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-12I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","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=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4019,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/4019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}