Good beer does not necessarily need to be strong beer. Sometimes you just want to tip a few pints without getting completely obliterated. Thank heavens that many of our favorite craft breweries produce beers that weigh in at or below 5% ABV. Starting on Thursday, July 14th, Naked City Brewery and Taphouse and the Northwest Beer Guide invite you to enjoy an assortment of delicious, low-gravity beers. Session Fest runs every day from July 14th through July 24th.
If memory serves, the first time I heard the word session used to describe a beer was back in the 1980s when I read Charlie Papazian’s The Complete Joy of Homebrewing for the first time. I seem to remember him describing a type of traditional English Bitter as a “session beer,” designed so that blokes could sit around the local pub drinking it for hours as they solved all of the worlds problems. Like any beer style, the definition is not chiseled in stone. For Session Fest, the line has been drawn at 5.0% ABV.
As the American craft beer revolution materialized over the past 30 years, we risked losing sight of the social aspect of beer. At its heart, beer is a social beverage that helps inspire conversation. High-gravity brews—in vogue over the past ten years and still quite common today—actually sabotage any meaningful conversation after just a couple of pints. As the volume of the conversation increases, the value of the conversation deteriorates. Happily, many American craft breweries are trending in a less inebriated direction and now produce delicious beers that satisfy the palate without over-stimulating the mindless quacker that exists inside each of us. While there is nothing wrong with high-gravity beers, it is nice to have tasty alternatives.
Session Fest is a celebration of session beers. The organizers are assembling quite a list of delicious beers for the event. For more details, check out the event preview on the Northwest Beer Guide website.
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