Here’s the round-up of April 2025’s Session (#146), announced here and with my contribution here. In addition to mine, I received notes from eleven others, here they are. If I’ve missed any, hit me up!
- Sean Inman at Beer Search Party is seeking what seems to be a spiritual transportation to get value from his beer! I don’t think I’m quite seeking that much value, but I do know what he means about being transported in a moment to a different place.
- Stan Hieronymous is looking for relevance in order to find value, and this is an interesting thought. I’ve had similar thoughts about how many more beers I will ever drink – these are dark thoughts – so these days, like Stan, I just want to make every beer count. However, I don’t necessarily equate that with value in the way that he appears to.
- Alan McLeod at A Good Beer Blog points us to a number of places/people (Tandleman and The Pub Curmudgeon for example) who are (and have been ) commenting on value for a while.
- Tripleclutcher (jordan b.) comes at us from Instagram where he pondered the question over some expensive cocktails in a fancy space, which he feels is at least part of the point about value. I’m inclined to agree to some greater or lesser extent.
- Phil Cook at the Beer Diary gets into the weeds a lot, but ultimately thinks choice and variety hold important keys in the value equation.
- Steve ‘Pudgy’ De Rose from Chicago, IL, USA reaches us from the LTH Forum (not sure what that is other than it appears to be a collection of postings about food/drink in Chicago), and ultimately concludes that this is just all too personal for any meaningful comparisons – something that I understand, but disagree with a little.
- I even picked up on a simple X/Twitter post by Irishbeerhistory regarding an old classic’s value, Sierra Nevada Bigfoot.
- his contribution that hones in on a pet-peeve of mine, i.e., the beer matching the description/style. This has been something that has bothered me for decades, and when they fail to match, like Gary, I’m annoyed. I don’t quite share his benevolence that, “doing what it says on the tin” is necessarily enough though.
- Alastair Reece has perhaps my favorite quote within all of the contributions (even though it has absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand), but it reflects a long held belief of mine about dumbass “milko” pours and Lukr taps. Hooray!
For nearly the entire time I lived in Czechia, Lukr taps were not a thing, they really only started showing up in around 2008, oh and I don’t recall ever seeing the choice for different pours
I’ve probably misinterpreted some of those other writings (apologies), but like the question at hand there’s a good dollop of subjectivity all over this Session.
