The Session is a monthly one-day event held by beer bloggers around the world, where they each post their thoughts on a unified theme.
That theme, for April, is Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em, hosted by Lew Bryson.
There may be more smoked beers than are dreamed of in your philosophy, Horatio; it’s not just rauchbier lagers from Franconia. Within the last year, I’ve had a strange smoked wheat beer, light and tart, that local brewers insisted was a re-creation of a Polish grodziski beer; a lichtenhainer, another light smoked wheat beer; several smoked porters; the odd Schlenkerla unsmoked helles that tastes pretty damned smokey; and, yeah, several types of smoked lagers. You’ve got three weeks, is what I’m saying: go find a smoked beer.
This episode of the Session will take place on April 3, 2009. Details here: Announcing Session #26: Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em
I have never liked smoke beers. I alwsys try new ones, hoping to hit a winner, but end up passing a half pint to someone else, or back to the bartender.
I’ve had a few that were pretty good, but as a rule I’m not really into smoked anything. So it’s not something I would generally seek out.
So, I’ll have to take lots of notes at tomorrows event.
http://www.yardsbrewing.com/events_smoke-em-if-you-got-em.asp
Heavyweight Brewing (defunct) Cinderbock was awesome, but, you had to be in the mood.