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In wine, there are supporters of high-alcohol fruit bombs versus sommeliers who refuse to put any wine over 14 percent on their lists. In spirits, it’s the opposite: Many craft bartenders thumb their noses at whiskey that falls below 100 proof. And in beer, there’s the perennial issue of the session beer. Session beers are low-alcohol, high-flavor, easy-drinking, reasonably priced beers that one might drink all night long and still be able to walk home without doing something stupid. Essentially, a session beer is the opposite of the 8 to 12 percent hop/sour/funk monsters that so many beer geeks love.
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In search of great session beers

Good article, good points made.

(via treblekicker)

Blimey, American beer drinking really is a different world. I moved from lager to real ale a few years ago - not entirely, but I drink more than 50% ale now - and I did it for two reasons. One was an improving palate, the other was that real ale generally had better-tasting beers at lower ABVs. Drinking 5% lagers as session beers was really punishing, and way increased the risk of writing off whole mornings or days to hangovers. But there are loads of good ales around the 4% mark, and the day I discovered great-tasting milds lurking a half or whole % below that was a happy day indeed.

Of course there are terrific beers at higher ABVs. But if you go to the Great British Beer Festival, say, you’ll be hard pressed to find much in that over-7% category “Extreme Beers” seem to fall into. (The Belgians do that stuff well, I grant you.)

Feb 8 '11 · 5 notes · via tomewing

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