The Session: Beer People - the round-up

Thanks to all who participated in Friday's Session, hosted here at Stonch's Beer Blog.

The choice of subject - Beer People - came naturally to me, yet caused consternation for some. Alan McLeod complained that "a lot of people go one about beer being a social lubricant and all but that's just not the way it is with me". David thought it was "an unusual topic", but went on to tell us about his boozy pals. Rick Lyke - clearly a sociable kinda guy - displayed boundless enthusiasm for the subject matter. Kieran Haslett-Moore was right in there too - great stuff. Stan Hieronymus - originator of the beer blogging Friday concept - "let the subject speak for itself", posting a video interview of Ed Reisch, an American ex-brewer. I loved reading about a "drinking club with a running problem" from Matt C in California - I need to get involved with one of those. Dave tells us about how he pulled his beer-loving missus using Facebook*. In their excellent video presentation, Joe and Jasmine gave an amusing account of their beery relationship. Jay Brooks suggests we in the beer writing world set aside a day a year to honour the most important beer people of all - the brewers.

* If you're registered there, join Stonch's Beer Group (but don't try and pull me unless you're really fit).

Here's a list of direct links to all the participating posts (let me know if yours is missing):

Boak and Bailey, The Beer Nut, Black Cat Brewery, Sacramento Brewing Company, Flying Dog Brewery News, Electric Landlord, Barley Blog, Musing Over a Pint, Sports Beer Wine Life, Sophisticated Brews, Brewing the Perfect Beer, Lyke to Drink, Pacific Brew News, Bottled Llama Brewing, Pfiff!, Relentless Thirst, Hop Talk, Bottles of Barley, Beer Haiku, Great Canadian Pubs and Beer, Maeib, Blog About Beer, Brainard Brewing, The Brew Site, Hair of The Dog Dave, Akelas Biggins, Beer at Joe's, A Good Beer Blog, Beer, Maine & Me, Appellation Beer, Southern Suds, Beer from the Motherland, What's on Tap, Brookston Beer Bulletin, My Beer Pix and Stonch's Beer Blog.

Next month's Session will be hosted by Boak and Bailey, a couple of fellow Londoners. I have no doubt they'll pick a great topic to get us all writing together again.

Cheers to all!

PS. Ron Pattinson didn't even bother taking part. Grumpy sod.