Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| Two notes for your reading and listening pleasure. In the first case, I respond to Mark Dredge’s comments on the unsessionability of session IPAs. He’s working from the British context, and I totally agree. However, I had to make a pitch for how these things work in the American context, which I have done here:
I have long been an American defender of European palates. I have spent many a session (and blog post) defending half-liter pours of Bavarian helles beer or imperial pints of cask bitter. Mark gives one of the best one-sentence description of the pleasures of cask ale—and helles lager: “There’s a simplicity to these beers that belies their depth and balance and makes their drinkability somehow increase as you go from pint to pint.” Totally true. But I think it’s time I defend American palates for our European friends. The second note is the new podcast, in which Patrick and I consider Trappist ales. Not all abbey ales, just the monastic ones. The idea came to us as we conside … |
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