The American Session Beer Column is a collaborative effort with Lew Bryson’s The Session Beer Project™, and aims to seek out the finest lower-alcohol brews from the West Coast and beyond. For these purposes, we consider a U.S. ‘session beer’ as being 4.5% ABV or less, flavorful enough to be interesting, balanced enough for multiple pints, conducive [...]
The American Session Beer Column is a collaborative effort with Lew Bryson’s The Session Beer Project™, and aims to seek out the finest lower-alcohol brews from the West Coast and beyond. For these purposes, we consider a U.S. ‘session beer’ as being 4.5% ABV or less, flavorful enough to be interesting, balanced enough for multiple pints, [...]
It’s rare that I’ll lean upon outside news sources or magazine articles as primary content (which probably just points to the fact that good bloggers are significantly more savvy and reactionary than I tend to be), but the recent issue of Imbibe magazine (July/August 2010) touched upon two topics that figure in prominently in this [...]
Our recent trip up north into southern Oregon and to Crater Lake National Park called for two things: (1) a beer that would be appropriate for drinking under the stars, waiting for occasional Perseid meteors; and (2) something appropriate for that afternoon heat, following a long day of hiking and falling asleep in an open boat. [...]
Ken’s weekly column is packing up its things, forwarding its mail, defrosting its fridge, and relocating to Wednesday. Huzzah! (Desperately Seeking Session Beer remains a collaborative effort with Lew Bryson’s The Session Beer Project™.)
Ali and I have been traveling back east for the past week and a half. We met up with our much-missed DC crew for a weekend of camping and craft beer in Shenandoah National Park. We then headed north, back to Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA NEPA!) to drink our fill of Selin’s Grove, stock up on [...]
I’d originally planned to interview Dan regarding his fruit beers – Apple Ale, Raspberry Tart, and Belgian Red – but the story of how New Glarus came to be so successful while keeping close to home proved more interesting. This is a story of session beer, of how one brewery thrives without being extreme.
The second installment of a collaborative column with Lew Bryson’s The Session Beer Project™: Steve Altimari at Valley Brew offers insight into how he brews his London Tavern Ale, and what session beer means in the context of a top-tier brewery.
This column kicks off a new collaborative effort with Lew Bryson’s The Session Beer Project™. We visit Russian River Brewing, chat with Vinnie Cilurzo about his approach to well-crafted session beers, and get reminded why low alcohol doesn’t mean low taste.
Whether it stemmed from Mark Dredge’s recent visit from the land of session bitters, or an opportune encounter with Craftsman’s 1903 Lager, or those nine long, light-lager months down in Central America – I really can’t say. But I often feel like I’m continually parting ways with the “extreme” craft beer scene. [...]
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