The Session #97 – Announcement – Up-and-Coming Beer Locations

The Session, a.k.a. Beer Blogging Friday, is an opportunity once a month for beer bloggers from around the world to get together and write from their own unique perspective on a single topic. Each month, a different beer blogger hosts the Session, chooses a topic and creates a round-up listing all of the participants, along with a short pithy critique of each entry. (You can find more information on The Session on Brookston Beer Bulletin).

Do you want to know a secret?

I know I do! And I hope you’ll share your secret with the rest of us.

The topic for this month’s session is up-and-coming beer locations.

We all have our favorite beer locations. Some have been around for centuries. Others have made such a name for themselves in the past 25 years, they have reached beer-legend status and are ranked up there with the “old-world” beer destinations.

Belgium, Germany, and the Czech Republic are pretty-much synonymous with beer, especially in line with the basic styles that originated in their breweries centuries ago.

Within the United States, you have “old-world” cities such as Milwaukee, WI, as well as “new-world” cities such as San Diego, Denver, Philadelphia, Boston, Portland, OR, and Asheville, NC more well-known for their experimental craft breweries.

But one thing that has become more apparent than ever in recent years, the craft beer scene is growing around the world, even faster than ever before!

Take a look at the offerings at any beer festival around the world, and you will find more craft brewers than you would have imagined. And when you look at where they’re from, the locations may often surprise you!

What are the up-and-coming beer locations that you see as the next major players in the beer scene?

For this month’s session, I’m asking you all to share which locations you see as the beer destinations that everyone will be talking about in the next few years.  Where are the beer scenes just emerging, or coming into their own? Some may be brand new locations. While others may be old-world destinations seeing a renaissance into the world of new craft beer styles.  Some may even be locations where familiar names from around the world are planning on setting up shop to bring new styles to old palates.

To participate in the current Session, just write a post on the topic of up-and-coming beer locations, and leave a comment here with a link to your post on or before March 6th, and I will include it in my Round-up. If you don’t have a beer blog but still want to participate, use the hashtag #session97 and I’ll try to include microblog/social media inputs with that hashtag as well.

It looks like the host slot for the April session is still open, so if you’re interested in hosting The Session #98, drop a note to Jay (.) Brooks (@) gmail (.) com or Stan Hieronymus of Appellation Beer. His e-mail is stan (@) appellationbeer (.) com.