Why Session Beer?

They have a place. I'll mow my lawn and want a beer, Carton Boat (4.2% ABV), is my summer go to most times. It's usually early when I mow the lawn and I can enjoy a beer afterwards then go on with my day and have something higher ABV later. There are a lot of holidays we spend at my in laws, again I can enjoy some session beers which is important because I drive home.

This isn't to say I don't enjoy a high ABV beer as well, I have plenty of them on hand. There is a time and a place. We are all over thinking this, it's BEER!

 

I enjoy session ipas because if i want a couple beers while doing things around the house on a saturday afternoon i dont want to get blasted by 2pm.

 

And you might just want to get a medical opinion about that too. I thought it was just the beer. It wasn't.

 

Any beer can be turned into a session beer. Here's how:
After 12 - 16 oz. of any beer between 5 - 7% abv drink 12 oz. of water before another beer
After 12- 16 oz. of any beer between 7 - 9% abv drink 18 oz. of water before another beer
After 12 - 16 oz. of any beer between 9 - 11% abv drink 24 oz. of water and wait 1/2 hour before another beer
After 12 - 16 oz. of any beer over 11% - Take a 1-hour nap.

 

What a dreadful way to drink beer.It sounds the antithesis of what beer is all about.Drinking not bothering to take a measiring cylinder to ensure you have the right amount of water.Best to use beer for drinking and reserve water for its true purpose of washing and swimming in.
Session beer by the way isn't about what you actually do, it's about what it is.Like you can squeeze six people into a four seater car but it's still a four seater.You can treat a 6% beer like a session beer (for a short while!) but it never becomes one.
Regarding price vs ABV , we set up a beer festival a few years ago and decided on a fixed price of £1 per half pint regardless of its ABV.We were told that it was a ridiculous way of pricing because the customers would go for the strongest ones and leave the weakest.The first beer to sell out was Dark Horse Mild at a mighty 3.4% ABV! In fact we found no evidence whatsoever of people letting price/ABV considerations affect their choice. And it made life so much easier both for the staff and the customers.

 

Not quite. You forgot to take full account of the time and rudeness factors. Alcohol can only be processed at a certain maximum rate by the body's metabolic processes and the volume of water you consume is only partly relevant. Equally critical is rate of alcohol consumption. Thus you need to ensure that your alcohol consumption rate is slow enough to get most or all of the alcohol out of your system at the same rate it is coming into your system. (A critical aspect of a true session beer.)

So more effective would be to pour your higher ABV beer into a bucket, add the appropriate amount of unchlorinated water to bring down the ABV and then sit and sip away as your friends treat each other to a round or two or three while you empty your bucket. That way you don't have to excuse yourself from the party to go find a place to take a nap (and appear rude or endure the follow on jokes about passing out.)

 

what happens if you make a 10% mild in your home brew, lol

MILD= young, not low alcohol...it CAN be. Its defined as the level of conditioning. or unaged.

try this beer a 1832 Truman XXXX mild, you have to home brew it of course its popped out at 10.5% for me
Just saying.....

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from the book or Ron's blog

 

hey I been drinking long time. and I am with yea. IF I am paying full price, I not buying a shaker pint for 5 bucks plus for some 4% and down beer. its bad enough I am paying 7-8 bucks for a sixer of SA imperial pilser. at 4.9%

my session beer that is not home brewed is blue moon, and its way over the session line at 5.4%

I have no issue with the definition at 4% btw, but its just not much down there I want to drink.
I do drink for the buzz and otherwise why drink? Its not for fucking hydration is it? nope.

 

Oh okay.

 

Get a sense of humor, please?

 

I try! Problem is that lots of people actually put forward drinking water as an antidote to alcohol. Like they say on kids's TV. "Don't try this at home"

 

Because Carton Boat Beer

 

That sounds great in theory, but where on earth am I gonna find a tulip-shaped bucket??

 

Well, how about a giant snifter?? :-)

Check out the avatar photo used by BA @JackHorzempa.

 

Instead of punctuating your session with drinking water, you could punctuate it instead with trips to this to, uh, cleanse the system...

 

OK. But take a 1 hr. nap? Maybe I should have put that one first.

 

Man, you cats overseas are lightweights, aren't ya?

 

More beer, less buzz. Not everyone drinking wants to get drunk or even buzzed.

 

material costs for professional brewers is a very small percentage of the cost of production for them. As a homebrewer as I assume you might be, thats the only cost.

 

Beach/Fishing with the family = Stress
ADD Session Beer(in low key cans is a +) = A damn good time.
Try enjoying a beer without the intention of getting smashed.