Pic(k) of the Week: Three for cask.

After three hundred and eighty-eight or so Pic(k) of the Weeks, it's a first. A selfie.

That's I, there, in the middle.

The occasion was the 13th annual Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting, on 21 January 2017, at 5 Seasons Brewing and Taco Mac Pub, in Sandy Springs, Georgia. These three (left to right) were discussing matters cask ale —in the United States and Britain:

• Des de Moor—
  British beer educator, beer writer, accredited beer sommelier.
• Thomas Cizauskas (me)—
  cask ale partisan; American beer blogger.
• Steve Hamburg—
  American cellarmaster; USA Director: Cask Marque.

Georgia beer impressario Owen Ogletree (not pictured) had invited Hamburg and de Moor to help him judge fifty-one cask ales. Of those,

• 32 (62%) were flavored in some way;
• Of the 19 (38%) that were not filled with extraneous flavorings:
  • 8 were unflavored IPAs;
  • 7 were sours (8 if you include one British beer that had gone off);
  • 3 (only!!?!) were bitters (or Scottish export style);
  • 1 was an unflavored stout;
  • 0 were milds

Hamburg and de Moor had strong opinions on all that. I recorded those (with permission). There will be a transcript. Stay tuned.

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• A few more pics from the festival: here.


• Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of photos taken (or noted) by me, posted on Saturdays, and often, but not always, with a good fermentable as the subject.
• Camera: Olympus Pen E-PL1.
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