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>The guys at beeradvocate.com say some beers make a good session beer.
>Is that just beer geek talk for a lot of drinking?
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No, it's a notion originated in the UK, where session beer is any tasty
beer that could be drunk during a whole session (ie. evening, or, more
likely, an hour or two between work and home, using the pub as a
"decompression chamber") at the pub without you being legless at the end
of it, or you feeling you've had too much (sickly feeling etc.)
A very similar idea of beers you can drink without getting neither bored
nor too drunk also exists in Germany and the Czech Republic, for instance.

It generally applies to beers that are not very spectacular in either
intensity, alcohol contents or bitterness units, but are well-balanced,
managing to be both tasty and easy-drinking.
A subtle art, which many non-british beer drinkers with palates trimmed
on US IPAs or Belgian strong ales have great trouble appreciating for
what they are and recognising as one of the highest forms of brewer's
skill.
That is 3 to 4 % ABV bitters and milds, preferably cask-conditioned,
served on handpump.

The term now tends to be tagged on to any easy-drinking beer, even at 8%
ABV, and I feel that may be a slightly misled use of the expression.

Cheers !

Laurent
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Laurent Mousson, Berne, Switzerland