Session Beer Day - 7 April

There's always more to learn out there.  Thanks to the Northern Brewer blog for introducing me to the Session Beer Project and the welcome concept of Session Beer Day, which will be tomorrow, 7 April.  It will celebrate Little Repeal Day, when 4% ABV beer became legal ahead of the full repeal of Prohibition.  Beer of this low alcohol can easily come across as thin and insipid; it's much easier to pack a lot of body and flavour into a big IPA or imperial stout.  However, every rich beer culture of which I can think (Britain, Belgium, Germany, heck even America...sometimes) has a hallowed place for tasty beers of which you can consume pint after pint without needing to be taken home in a wheelbarrow.

Being in Utah presently, drinking session beer tomorrow will be pretty easy; thanks to the incredibly antiquated "3.2 Law", there's not a draft beer in the state above 4% ABV.  By no means has that slowed down resident brewers and beer enthusiasts; while I don't hold with all the local draft offerings, the microbrew scene here flourishes based on exactly this strength of beer.  What I really wish is that I had the opportunity to brew a session beer tomorrow.  Paper research takes precedence there, but I do have yet another ordinary bitter recipe in the works for the near future.  Hope you're able to get out there tomorrow and, one way or another, get sessionable.

-Br. Absalom